Wireless Network Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton•McLean, MD

About The Position

The Wireless Network Engineer role involves visualizing and creating future network capabilities by engineering, integrating, and evaluating advanced wireless network technologies across various military mission environments. This role requires anticipating technical hurdles and turning early concepts into functional prototypes and mission-ready solutions. The engineer will leverage expertise in operational and tactical radio and network systems, modern software architectures, and a deep understanding of how applications, transports, waveforms, and mission services operate on both disconnected, degraded, intermittent, and limited (D-DIL) networks and enterprise, resilient, high-performance networks. The position supports concept development, prototype design, and solutions ideation for next-generation network capabilities. Responsibilities include overseeing research, design, planning, integration, and evaluation of advanced wireless and high-speed transport technologies, translating customer needs into actionable architectures and prototype implementations. The engineer will conduct assessments of customer requirements, perform network modeling and simulation, evaluate and optimize performance, and provide technical consulting. The work will influence the Department of War's adoption of future networking technologies, from concepts to operational systems. This includes refining technical roadmaps, delivering solution briefs, collaborating with stakeholders, and representing capabilities at demonstrations. A key aspect of the role is mentoring emerging engineers.

Requirements

6+ Years of experience designing, integrating, and developing advanced wireless network capabilities using flexible software architectures and commercial off the shelf hardware
Knowledge of how applications, transports, and mission services interact across contested and bandwidth-limited environments
Knowledge of military radio waveforms, transport, communications planning systems, and mission critical networking systems including interoperability across heterogeneous transports, routing frameworks, tactical-edge networks, and government mission systems supporting the Department of War
Ability to work in Agile development environments with continuous integration and DevSecOps practices that enable rapid prototyping, iterative refinement, and accelerated delivery of fieldable wireless networking capabilities
Ability to establish trust, communicate effectively, and maintain strong relationships with clients, mission operators, network stakeholders, and technical partners to ensure alignment between operational networking needs and technical designs or capability roadmaps
Ability to travel up to 15% of the time
Secret clearance
Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, or a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field

Nice To Haves

10+ Years of experience developing modular, service‑based wireless and RF applications using microservices, well‑defined API specifications, and distributed network‑processing frameworks that support scalable, resilient wireless and spectrum‑aware operations
Experience with orchestration and containerized deployments, such as Docker, Kubernetes, or serverless platforms, to rapidly field wireless prototypes, automate scaling of network functions, and ensure reliable delivery of RF and mission‑network services in contested or degraded environments
Experience applying cloud technologies and modern data‑engineering techniques to host, process, and fuse high‑volume wireless, RF, and electromagnetic‑sensing data to support real‑time analytics, adaptive routing, and prototype network capability development
Knowledge of advanced analytics, artificial‑intelligence and machine‑learning workflows, and disciplined MLOps pipelines that enable intelligent spectrum decision making, wireless performance prediction, and dynamic adaptation to RF interference or jamming
Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills for explaining wireless architectures, RF networking concepts, and EW/EMSO‑relevant design decisions, and for delivering capability demonstrations to mission and technical stakeholders
TS/SCI clearance
Master’s degree in Computer Science or a STEM field
CompTIA Security+ certification

Responsibilities

Oversee research, design, planning, integration, and evaluation of advanced wireless and high-speed transport technologies.
Translate customer needs and strategic objectives into actionable architectures and prototype implementations of new and novel solutions.
Conduct in-depth assessments of customer requirements.
Perform network modeling and simulation activities.
Evaluate and optimize performance.
Provide technical consulting to define solution requirements to optimize for mission application needs.
Refine technical roadmaps.
Deliver solution briefs.
Collaborate with stakeholders.
Represent innovative wireless capabilities at demonstrations and technical events.
Mentor emerging engineers and help guide the next generation of wireless networking innovators.