Senior Electronic Warfare Radio Frequency Engineer
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 engineer leads end-to-end EW and RF mission-system architecture development across airborne, range, and laboratory test environments. The position also provides senior technical advice and engineering direction to EW engineers, SAIC technologists, portfolio leadership, and multidisciplinary teams. It translates customer requirements into engineering specifications and delivers technical solutions using high-fidelity RF threat simulations and intelligence-derived emitter models. The role develops and validates RF architectures, digital receivers, signal-processing flows, and EW technique implementations. It aligns development with modern systems-engineering practices, including digital and model-based systems engineering, and produces compliant engineering artifacts. The engineer also supports configuration and risk management, technical reviews, readiness assessments, and capture activities.
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 IPT 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 with digital and model-based systems-engineering practices and applicable SETR and IEEE guidelines.
- Produce engineering artifacts, including specifications, test plans, integration procedures, and analysis reports.
- Support configuration and risk management by representing the EW engineering team in technical reviews, configuration steering boards, and readiness assessments.
- 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
