Radar Engineer

Peraton Labs is seeking a Radar Countermeasures Engineer to support the U.S. Army at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. This position will be on site 5 days a week. The chosen candidate will act in a technical engineering role supporting modeling and simulation, lab-based hardware in the loop simulations, and technique development.

Key Responsibilities include:

You will participate in engineering lab environments to test, verify, and validate sensor models and signal processing algorithm performance.
• You will use and modify simulations for the design, development, prototyping, integration, testing, and performance assessment of signal processing algorithms and models.
• You will develop radar waveforms to serve as evaluation criteria for systems under test (SUTs) performance within the lab environment.
• You will develop software tools to support the lab environment and signals analysis.
• You will operate radar SUTs during both lab and field testing.
• You will prepare and present technical data.
• Job will include up to 25% travel.

Required:

• Degree in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or related field
• 5 years of experience with BS/BA; 3 years with MS/MA
• RF (Radio Frequency) Signal Processing, ideally for Radar, but for SIGINT, EW and/or COMMS is acceptable
• Familiarity with object-oriented or interpreted programming: C, C++, C#, Java, MATLAB, or Python
• Must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance with ability to obtain SCI
• US Citizenship

Desired:

• Subject Matter Expertise in multiple RF algorithms such as synthetic aperture radar, waveform design, tracking, feature extraction, classification / recognition, adaptive processing, angle estimation, or beamforming.
• Experience with RF closed loop HW evaluations and raw IQ level data
• MATLAB for code development / interfacing with lab hardware / data analysis
• Active SCI access

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