Senior Electronic Warfare Radio Frequency Engineer

SAIC•Oxnard, CA

10h•Onsite

About The Position

SAIC is seeking a Senior Electronic Warfare (EW) / Radio Frequency (RF) Engineer to support the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWC-WD) at Pt. Mugu. The role provides engineering expertise for Airborne Threat Simulation, Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA), and complex integration and system-development activities supporting fleet and test-range missions. The position is located in Oxnard / Point Mugu, California, and requires an active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain TS/SCI. The engineer leads end-to-end EW and RF mission-system architecture development across airborne, range, and laboratory test environments. The role includes translating customer requirements into engineering specifications, developing and validating RF architectures and digital receivers, and delivering technical solutions using high-fidelity RF threat simulations and intelligence-derived emitter models. The engineer also advises EW engineers and SAIC portfolio leadership, leads multidisciplinary technical efforts and capture activities, and supports systems engineering, configuration management, risk management, technical reviews, and readiness assessments.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
18 or more years of experience in EW/RF systems engineering, preferably in airborne EW environments.
Deep understanding of RF subsystem design, modeling, simulation, and threat-environment replication.
Experience performing hardware/software integration and mission-system validation.
Active Secret clearance.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Engineering or a related field.
Prior support to NAWC-WD or other Naval Aviation programs.
Experience with EWIRDB, RF simulation tools (HFSS, CST, AWR/MWO, ADS), A2PATS/NEWEG, or emitter-modeling workflows.
Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary integration efforts.

Responsibilities

Lead development of end-to-end EW and RF mission-system architectures spanning airborne, range, and laboratory test environments for AEA threat simulation and RF sensor programs.
Collaborate with NAWC-WD engineers and SAIC technologists to support system readiness and mission execution.
Serve as a senior technical advisor to EW engineers and SAIC portfolio leadership, providing engineering direction to multidisciplinary teams.
Translate customer requirements into engineering specifications through functional analysis, trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition while balancing technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
Architect and deliver scalable technical solutions using high-fidelity RF threat simulations and intelligence-derived emitter models.
Develop and validate RF architectures, digital receivers, signal-processing flows, and EW technique implementations.
Align EW/RF team development efforts with modern systems-engineering practices, including digital and model-based systems engineering.
Produce compliant engineering artifacts, including specifications, test plans, integration procedures, and analysis reports, using industry SETR and IEEE guidelines.
Represent the EW engineering team in technical reviews, configuration steering boards, and readiness assessments, supporting configuration and risk management.
Serve as technical lead for capture activities, build relationships with senior customer stakeholders, and produce technical volumes, labor and material estimates, and customer-facing solution narratives.