Principal RF Hardware Engineer

18 hours, 57 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
IoT and Embedded Systems
STR

STR

STR is a technology company dedicated to solving emerging national security challenges by developing and applying cutting-edge technology. They focus on cybersecurity, analytics, sensing, and systems to make society safer. As an employee-owned company,...

Aerospace & Defense
251-1K
Founded 2010

Description

  • Lead RF hardware system development across the full lifecycle, from requirements definition through delivery.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define system requirements and specifications.
  • Design RF hardware and support assembly, integration, and testing activities.
  • Select RF system components, including active and passive devices, antennas, connectors, cables, and enclosures.
  • Perform supporting analyses such as RF link budgets to justify design decisions.
  • Support system bring-up, initial operation, checkout, and test plan definition.
  • Work on airborne RF systems in the near term and other applications as needed.
  • Prepare information for customer briefings and technical reviews.
  • Translate mission needs into end-to-end technical solutions with customers and decision-makers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree and at least 10 years of applicable experience, or a Master’s degree; equivalent experience may be considered.
  • Ability to obtain a security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required.
  • Expertise in RF systems and their principles of design, development, requirements verification, test planning, test execution, and data analysis.
  • Experience in preparing and delivering high-level briefings to customers and senior management.
  • Ability to work effectively in a team environment, often under tight deadlines.
  • Ability to survey technical literature and incorporate state-of-the-art solutions into current problems.
  • Strong interpersonal, communication, and technical skills.
  • Demonstrated desire to take on new challenges, broaden technical skills, and increase responsibility.
  • Experience supporting technical reviews such as SRRs, PDRs, CDRs, and TIMs.
  • Active Secret or Top Secret security clearance, preferred.
  • Demonstrated expertise in radar systems, electronic warfare, microwave engineering, analog and digital signal processing, embedded software development, or physics modeling and simulation, preferred.

Benefits

  • Full-time salary range of $206,000 to $285,000.
  • Opportunity to work on advanced defense, intelligence, and national security research and development.
  • Collaborative learning environment that supports deep technical growth.
  • Work on challenging programs with meaningful mission impact.
  • Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodation support during the hiring process.

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