RF Systems Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton•McLean, VA

1d•$99,000 - $225,000•Remote

About The Position

Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to make an impact on national security? You understand your customer’s environment and how to develop the right systems for their mission. Your ability to translate real-world needs into technical specifications makes you an integral part of delivering a customer-focused engineering solution. As a leader in RF systems engineering, we’re looking for you to solve complex challenges and shape RF collection, geolocation, and EW systems by providing technical leadership for our RF product development team. Your customer will trust you to not only design and develop these systems, but also evolve them with advanced technology solutions. Share your expertise through leadership and mentoring, while broadening your skillset into areas like quantum sensing and unmanned systems.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in RF engineering and systems engineering focused on the design, development, integration, and testing of custom or COTS-based RF hardware and software systems
Experience with advanced RF simulation platforms such as Ansys STK, HFSS, FEKO, or MATLAB, link budget and link analysis, RF HW designs, and DSP algorithms
Experience leading Preliminary Design Reviews (PDRs) and Critical Design Reviews (CDRs), test readiness reviews, and final acceptance test reviews
Experience performing trade studies or analysis of alternatives
Experience creating marketing whitepapers, proposal technical volume materials, and project technical reports
Knowledge of engineering documentation processes, including creating systems requirements documents and test plans
Ability to present technical solutions clearly to stakeholders
TS/SCI clearance
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Nice To Haves

Experience with Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA) principles, SDRs, and open standards such as SOSA and VITA
Possession of strong collaborative skills
Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Systems Engineering

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain system-level requirements for RF collection systems, geolocation systems, digital radio frequency memory, and special communications systems, ensuring traceability from mission concept of operations through subsystem specifications.
Conduct trade studies and analyses to evaluate design alternatives, performance margins, and technical feasibility.
Perform advanced RF design modeling using electromagnetic (EM) and RF simulation tools to optimize performance, signal integrity, and link budgets.
Lead concept development, system architecture, and detailed design of integrated RF systems, connecting custom hardware modules with software-defined radio (SDR) and digital signal processing (DSP) layers.
Drive the integration, testing, and debugging of RF systems across various hardware, firmware, and operating systems.
Author a test plan, and lead system validation and verification of the system requirements.
Serve as the primary technical interface for multidisciplinary teams and government clients, providing strategic mentorship to junior engineers.
Support risk identification, mitigation planning, and technical performance measurement (TPM) tracking throughout the program lifecycle.