Radar Modes Lead Engineer

Honeywell Aerospace•Torrance, CA

3d•$157,000 - $197,000

About The Position

The Radar Modes Lead Engineer will lead and manage projects in the RF/Radar team in Advanced Tech, perform radar engineering design, and manage project proposal efforts. The role leads execution of radar signal processing, modes, and software functions across radar development programs, including weather signal processing, waveform design and implementation, embedded radar software, software architecture, and future multi-mode radar capabilities. Working as a systems lead with other technical leads, this engineer establishes the technical approach and software capabilities for radar prototypes. The position calls for hands-on technical leadership of end-to-end radar signal processing, modes, and software development from concept through integrated prototype demonstration. The work includes airborne weather radar, radar mode and waveform development, signal-processing algorithms, processing hardware requirements, modeling and simulation, system architecture, prototyping, multi-mode radar development, airborne avionics processes, and phased-array radar.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM).
At least 6 years of experience in a related field.
Experience in radar systems, including radar modes, radar signal processing, or radar systems.
Systems engineering experience that includes at least two of the following: requirements; design; specification development; modeling; simulation; performance analysis; hardware/software integration; test; or verification.
Must be a US Person, US citizen, or US permanent resident due to contractual requirements and US export control laws and regulations.

Nice To Haves

Master’s or PhD degree from an accredited institution in a technical discipline such as science, technology, engineering, or mathematics.
Track record of solving difficult, complex problems through innovation, analysis, engineering, and experimentation.
Excellent written and oral communication skills, reflected in published results and public presentations in the field of research.
Ability to engage with customers and partners to define needs and requirements and develop solutions through rigorous analysis, engineering, and experimentation.
Ability to communicate ideas and results to research sponsors, scientific peers, and business leadership through presentations, publications, and proposal writing.
Strong understanding of aircraft and avionics integration.
Hands-on experience defining and developing radar system architectures, including subsystems, functional allocation, interfaces, data flows, hardware/software partitioning, and the physical hardware and processing needed for an integrated radar system.
Demonstrated experience taking radar concepts, architectures, modes, waveforms, and algorithms beyond analysis and simulation into functional hardware prototypes or demonstrators.
Experience developing advanced radar capabilities across multiple applications, modes, frequency bands, architectures, or sensing functions, including developing and integrating multi-mode radar systems.
Familiarity with relevant airborne safety, hardware, software, and certification development processes and standards.
Experience with phased-array or electronically scanned radar architecture, mode development, beamforming, scan/resource management, and array/beam characteristics and their effects on radar performance.

Responsibilities

Lead and manage projects in the RF/Radar team in Advanced Tech, perform radar engineering design, and manage project proposal efforts.
Lead radar signal-processing, modes, and software functions throughout radar development programs, including weather signal processing, waveform design and implementation, embedded radar software, software architecture, and multi-mode radar capability development.
Establish the technical approach and software capabilities for radar prototypes as a systems lead working with other technical leads.
Develop airborne weather radar capabilities, including weather detection, measurement and characterization, phenomenology, turbulence detection, predictive windshear, ground-clutter mitigation, and attenuation compensation.
Develop and manage radar modes from operational needs through mode definition, processing, resource needs, implementation, and integration.
Design and optimize radar waveforms, scan strategies, and resource management, including PRFs, bandwidths, timing, ambiguity, Doppler considerations, beam and scan strategies, dwell, revisit and update rates, coverage, and allocation of radar resources across modes.
Develop radar signal-processing algorithms, including range/Doppler processing, detection, CFAR, beamforming, angle estimation, clutter suppression, and tracking; implement and optimize processing for real-time radar systems.
Translate waveform, signal-processing, and mode needs into digital processing requirements, and evaluate processor architectures against radar performance and integration requirements.
Develop and use MATLAB, Python, or similar tools for radar architecture, waveform and algorithm development, performance modeling, and analysis of measured radar data.
Define and develop radar system architectures, including subsystems, functional allocation, interfaces, data flows, hardware/software partitioning, and physical hardware and processing requirements.
Take radar concepts, architectures, modes, waveforms, and algorithms beyond analysis and simulation into functional hardware prototypes or demonstrators.
Develop advanced radar capabilities across applications, modes, frequency bands, architectures, and sensing functions, including integration of multi-mode radar systems.
Apply familiarity with airborne safety, hardware, software, and certification development processes and standards.
Develop phased-array or electronically scanned radar architecture and modes, including beamforming and scan/resource management, and account for array and beam characteristics in radar performance.