NAVWAR Engineer

Bowhead•Albuquerque, NM

About The Position

Bowhead seeks a NAVWAR Engineer to support the Joint Navigation Warfare Center (JNWC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The role supports the Department of Defense’s navigation warfare mission to ensure positioning, navigation, and timing superiority. The team provides combatant and joint force commanders with subject matter expertise on planning and conducting NAVWAR, including knowledge of friendly and enemy NAVWAR order of battle and PNT-related successes and threats. The NAVWAR Engineer serves as a baseline NAVWAR engineer and develops, analyzes, tests, and integrates RF, electronic warfare, and positioning, navigation, and timing solutions for airborne and other mission environments. The role includes research and development of compact, multifunction payloads; development of signal-processing algorithms and models; hardware-in-the-loop testing; and collaboration with customers and technical teams to integrate and validate capabilities. Applicants must have a bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or related field and 3–10 years of relevant experience, as well as prior leadership or management experience in higher-level roles. Applicants must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI clearance; work may begin with an Interim Secret clearance or higher. U.S. citizenship is required for Top Secret clearance at this location. Applicants holding an in-scope DoW Secret or Top Secret clearance are preferred.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or a related field.
3–10 years of relevant experience.
Prior leadership or management experience in higher-level roles.
Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI clearance; work may begin with an Interim Secret clearance or higher.
U.S. citizenship is required for Top Secret clearance at this location.
Ability to lift up to 25 pounds, stand and walk for prolonged periods, and periodically twist, bend, and squat.

Nice To Haves

Professional Engineer (PE) license for senior-level applicants.
Master’s degree.
In-scope DoW Secret or Top Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

Serve as a baseline NAVWAR engineer.
Research and develop multifunction, small-form-factor payloads for NAVWAR missions.
Develop and analyze models of novel algorithmic concepts to produce distributed electronic-sensing effects for NAVWAR payloads.
Use electronic-warfare signal-processing algorithms to detect and identify threats and enable countermeasures.
Develop systems to harden GPS against NAVWAR effects on friendly-force systems.
Develop RF hardware and software solutions integrating electronic warfare, communications, and radar missions into small-form-factor payloads.
Investigate heterogeneous sensing concepts across platforms, including manned and unmanned platforms, high-altitude ISR, and ALE, as well as passive sensing approaches.
Design and implement testing of RF and other hardware components of software-defined radio frameworks.
Reverse-engineer existing NAVWAR signal-processing solutions.
Synthesize and allocate system requirements and derive requirements to ensure the system architecture is defined, understood, and compliant with mission needs.
Support development and implementation of client requirements for RF solutions, including services, products, technologies, and capabilities for airborne mission environments.
Perform hardware-in-the-loop testing on systems that may be affected by PNT/GPS denial or deception.
Support technical reviews of vendor hardware and software products and deliverables, interface development, and development of software algorithms and simulation models.
Research state-of-the-art signal-processing algorithms.
Work with internal and external JNWC customers to integrate solutions into a variety of applications and use cases.
Debug, test, and validate capabilities using unit tests and scenarios reported by JNWC or its customers.
Perform other duties as assigned.