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Summary

Sr. Radio Frequency (RF) Engineer

Reston, Virginia

The Sr. Radio Frequency (RF) Engineer will support a space and counter space program team during the development, testing, acceptance, deployment, and maintenance of any RF-based technical collection systems.

Responsibilities

• Assist the program team during the development, testing, acceptance, deployment, and maintenance of any RF-based technical collection systems with Subject Matter Expertise.

• Conduct propagation modeling and analysis for communications, bistatic, multi-static, and monostatic

• Provide link budget analysis assuming standard propagation losses, atmospheric effects, environmental effects, and circuit effects.

• Conduct RF systems engineering and reverse

• Design, develop, produce, analyze, integrate, test, and deploy digital MASINT receiver applications.

• Plan and execute construction projects and deployments.

• Build transmitters and receivers for communications satellite systems and RF systems.

• Assist with the preparation of government CDRLs as requested by the Project Lead.

• Provide pre-deployment, and post-deployment support of current and future SCS technical collection capabilities, including but not limited to:

• Support system development, validation, verification testing, and acceptance.

• Support to pre-deployment surveys.

• Support to logistics, planning, and execution of asset installation.

• Fabrication and Field Engineering support.

• Maintenance and decommissioning of forward-deployed assets.

• Complete daily time recording as required in compliance with company policies and procedures.

• Complete annual training by contract and company policies and procedures.

• Travel up to 15% locally, CONUS, or OCONUS.

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent is required.

• Bachelor of Science in a related field like Electrical Engineering is strongly preferred.

• 9+ years of related experience that demonstrates:

• A strong proficiency with RF communications or radar systems in system development and acquisition programs.

• Planning and executing construction projects and deployments.

• Fixing RF equipment in less-than-ideal conditions.

• Designing and building transmitters/receivers for communications satellite systems and RF systems.

• Satellite radio design, satellite ground system design, and operations.

• Understanding RF feeds across the spectrum, aperture design, phased arraying, and similar.

• Must be able to provide link budget analysis assuming standard propagation losses, and atmospheric, environmental, and circuit effects.

• Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain an SCI is required.

• Must pass CI polygraph and be granted SCI eligibility to start.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Must be able to maintain a TS/SCI for the lifecycle of the contract.

• Ability to provide expertise for RF systems, receivers, digitizers, and hardware that operates from 10 MHz to 40 GHz RF spectrum preferred.

• Experience in designing, developing, producing, analyzing, integrating, testing, and deploying digital MASINT receiver applications to include low noise amplification, filtering, circuit isolation, timing and clocking techniques, high-speed digital sampling techniques, on­board data processing using FPGA, application specific integrated circuits (ASIC), programmable logic devices (PLD), analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), Digital-to­ analog converters (DACs), and similar preferred.

• Experience in designing, developing, producing, analyzing, integrating, testing, evaluating, and deploying low and high-power transmission systems, including combining networks, transmit/receive modules (TR modules), traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWAs), Solis State Power Amplifiers (SSPA), and similar preferred.

• Must have strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize.

• Possess excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Ability to manage multiple tasks with time-related constraints in a fast-paced environment.

• Ability to self-start and work independently or as a team.

• Ability to travel locally up to 15% with occasional CONUS or OCONUS travel for approximately one week in duration doing fieldwork.

Teleworking Details

Travel up to 15% locally, CONUS, or OCONUS.

Chenega Corporation and family of companies is an EOE.

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