Electrical Engineer

Metrea•Huntsville, AL

44d•Onsite

About The Position

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refuelling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats. Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific. At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately. Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific. The Electromagnetic and Cyber Group (EM&C) is responsible for developing flexible and survivable advanced electronic warfare and secure communications equipment while providing the industry’s leading signals intelligence, electronic warfare, and cyber experts. Metrea specializes in signal classification, direction finding, advanced geolocation techniques, and waveform development including waveforms for MANET and LPI/LPD applications. Metrea also develops special purpose radios for government customers and licenses DF and geolocation solutions to multiple OEMs. Reporting to the SHADOWLAB Senior Principal Systems Engineer, Electromagnetics and Cyber Group (EM&C), and supporting Metrea’s overall engineering efforts, the Embedded Software Engineer will join our busy team specializing in state-of-the-art military communications and signals intelligence products. All our teams operate in a small agile environment which allows our engineering personnel to work independently on a wide variety of systems and products. Our mix of product development and R&D also provides our engineering staff with a constant flow of new and interesting projects.

Requirements

Experience applying DSP fundamentals such as filtering, FFTs, modulation recognition, demodulation, decoding, spectral analysis, and signal detection using SDR platforms and tools such as GNU Radio, MATLAB, Python, C++, or similar environments
Working knowledge of RF propagation, antennas, receivers, transmitters, modulation schemes, link budgets, spectrum analysis, and common wireless communication protocols used in military, commercial, or intelligence-related environments
Experience developing, optimizing, and validating signal-processing algorithms; analyzing large datasets; identifying patterns or anomalies in RF data; and supporting system integration, field testing, and performance evaluation of SIGINT, EW, or RF sensing systems
Employee must be a US citizen.

Responsibilities

Develop and implement algorithms for detecting, classifying, demodulating, and decoding signals of interest using advanced digital signal processing (DSP) techniques
Analyze and process signals across various radio frequencies (RF), including designing and optimizing software-defined radios (SDRs) and other SIGINT collection systems
Design, simulate, and optimize signal processing algorithms using tools like MATLAB, Python, or C++ to enhance detection and extraction of intelligence from raw signals
Develop and evaluate techniques for jamming, spoofing, or countering adversary signals while ensuring operational security and mission effectiveness
Collaborate with hardware and software teams to integrate signal processing solutions into larger systems, conduct performance testing, and validate functionality under real-world conditions
Process and interpret large volumes of signals data to identify patterns, anomalies, and actionable intelligence, supporting decision-making for military, defense, or intelligence operations