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Department Summary:

MITRE’s Sensors, Electromagnetics and EW Department—within MITRE Labs’ Electronic Systems and Technologies Innovation Center is a broad and experienced team focused on designing, prototyping, evaluating, testing and fielding disruptive solutions in the following technology areas:

• Radar/Sensors

• Antennas

• HF sensing and communications

• Signal Processing and Algorithm Development

• Electronic Warfare

We are looking to grow our team and are seeking highly talented and motivated candidates with strong technical skills in Radar Engineering.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Foster and develop innovative, transformational solutions to sensing challenges and capability gaps.

• Evaluate radar technologies, identify risks, and develop alternate solutions.

• Perform system and sub-system level test.

• Conduct experiments/data collections.

• Design and prototype radar algorithms and radar signal processing solutions.

• Model system and sub-system behavior.

• Identify technology gaps and their solutions for insertion into both fielded and developmental systems.

• Participate in MITRE Labs’ presence in peer reviewed publications, patent submissions, and external conferences/workshops.

• Support the demand for MITRE’s radar/sensor expertise through partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, sponsors, and end-users.

• Support proposal development efforts to expand our work program into new areas.

• Engage in personal career and technical growth as well as the growth of others through mentoring, training, and collaboration.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum BS with 5 years or more years of radar engineering, or other relevant experience.

• Demonstrated broad and deep understanding of radar technologies and methods.

• Experience performing design engineering and testing for engineering or physics applications.

• Demonstrated ability to effectively use programming environments such as MATLAB or Python to develop engineering models and analyze data.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical concepts simply and concisely, making needed connections, and bridging across domains as appropriate.

• Proven experience fostering collaboration.

• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills including the ability to communicate clearly in technical terms with both the engineering staff and senior sponsor leadership.

• Strong writing and briefing skills.

• Must be capable of obtaining and maintaining a Top Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD in electrical engineering, math or physics.

• Experience performing design engineering, test, and field work for radar systems.

• Radar modeling and data analysis experience.

• Technical depth in RF design, antennas/electromagnetics, or radar EW.

• Knowledge of non-radar sensing modalities.

• Top Secret/SCI Clearance.

  This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

Secret

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Secret

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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