NAVWAR Engineer

UIC Alaska•Kirtland AFB, NM

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Bowhead seeks an NAVWAR Engineer to support the Joint Navigation Warfare Center (JNWC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The role supports the JNWC contract and contributes to 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 for planning and conducting NAVWAR, including knowledge of friendly and enemy NAVWAR order of battle and PNT-related successes and threats. The NAVWAR Engineer conducts research, development, analysis, integration, and testing of NAVWAR systems and solutions. Work includes small-form-factor payloads, electronic warfare signal processing, GPS system hardening, RF hardware and software, software-defined radio frameworks, sensing concepts, and systems affected by PNT/GPS denial or deception. The position also supports requirements development, technical reviews, customer integration, and validation of capabilities.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree in an engineering discipline or a related field.
3 to 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.

Nice To Haves

Professional Engineer (PE) license for senior-level candidates.
Master’s degree.
Applicants with an in-scope Department of War Secret or Top Secret clearance are preferred.

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 for threat detection and identification and for employing countermeasures.
Develop systems to harden GPS systems against NAVWAR effects on blue-force systems.
Develop RF hardware and software solutions to integrate electronic warfare, communications, and radar missions into small-form-factor payloads.
Investigate heterogeneous sensing concepts across different platforms, including manned and unmanned platforms, high-altitude ISR, and ALE; investigate passive sensing approaches.
Design and implement testing of RF and other hardware portions of software-defined radio frameworks.
Reverse engineer existing NAVWAR signal-processing solutions.
Synthesize and allocate system requirements, and derive requirements to define, understand, and ensure compliance of system architecture 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 can 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 varied 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.