Radio Frequency (RF) / Communications Engineer

UIC Alaska • North Charleston, SC

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Bowhead seeks a Radio Frequency (RF) / Communications Engineer to join our team supporting NIWC Atlantic. The engineer will play a critical role in the research, development, and rapid prototyping of the Agnostic Mission Message Orchestrator (AMMO) project. While the hardware team builds the physical box, this role is responsible for making it communicate. Focused on logical integration and signal performance, this position ensures robust, secure, and resilient connectivity to U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) operational networks by provisioning, configuring, and optimizing 5G/LTE, tactical mesh, and SATCOM transport layers at the tactical edge.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications, Network Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering (with RF focus), or a related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in RF network architecture, logical systems configuration, and wireless signal optimization.
• Demonstrated expertise in configuring and tuning 5G/LTE cellular networks, tactical radio networks, and IP routing protocols.
• Familiarity with USMC or broader DoD tactical communication networks, data architectures, and network security protocols.
• Proven ability to analyze RF signals and troubleshoot network connectivity drops in a fast-paced R&D environment.
• Must currently hold a Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, and optimize the logical network architecture, IP routing, and data flow for the AMMO prototypes.
• Provision, tune, and manage the wireless transport layers, strictly focusing on the signal and network configuration of 5G/LTE modules, military tactical radios, and SATCOM terminals.
• Implement software/configuration solutions for signal tuning and interference mitigation.
• Ensure seamless logical interoperability and secure data transit between the AMMO edge node and existing USMC tactical networks.
• Execute field testing to validate network survivability, signal range, bandwidth availability, and overall communication performance in simulated tactical environments.
• Define precise antenna specifications, signal isolation needs, and optimal placement requirements, handing these specifications off to the Hardware Engineer for physical construction.
• Other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior