Title:
Radar Engineer
Program Summary
KBR’s Missile, Aviation, and Ground Systems (MAGS) division delivers mission engineering solutions for critical U.S. Army programs, specializing in aviation and ground systems, integrated air and missile defense, and threat and target systems. As a trusted partner of the U.S. Department of Defense, MAGS provides innovative, technology-driven solutions to enhance national security. With a global presence and a strong ethical framework, KBR ensures secure, effective, and mission-ready capabilities worldwide.
Job Summary
As a Radar Engineer, you will play a critical role performing research and trade studies, developing and proposing algorithms, shaping and defining performance metrics, evaluating radar OEM algorithms and system performance, developing analysis tools and scripts, and reviewing technical documentation and CDRLs. You will support our project managers and work closely with subcontractors and government customers, focusing on radar performance, algorithms, performance analysis, and related technical tasks, such as development and review of system performance requirements, PWS, and SOW technical contract language. This position is ideal for someone who is highly organized, highly experienced in radar systems, and thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. This job is seeking someone with deep subject matter expertise in radar as related to air and missile defense systems.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Perform technical engineering and problem solving for Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) System of System problems with a focus on radar.
- Develop algorithms and explore concepts related to IAMD system of systems including radar and battle management technologies.
- Develop requirements and test objectives of IAMD systems with a focus on radar systems.
- Develop metrics, analyze data, and assess the performance of IAMD radar systems.
- Perform analysis applying appropriate scientific and engineering processes and modeling techniques to the life cycle development of systems.
- Support planning and execution of system performance analysis, independent performance assessments, post-test analysis and simulation Verification, Validation and Accreditation (VV&A) activities.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related field.
- 3+ years of experience in radar system engineering, RF engineering, or related discipline.
- Ability to obtain and/or maintain a DoD secret clearance.
- Proficiency in radar theory, electromagnetic wave propagation, and RF/microwave hardware.
- Familiarity with radar metrics (range equation, free space equation, SNR, RCS,track accuracy, false tracks)
- Experience working with radar data types such as in-phase/quadrature (I/Q), detection, track, and health & status data
- Proficiency with MATLAB and/or Python for modeling and analysis.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related field.
- 8+ years of experience in radar system engineering, RF engineering, or related discipline.
- Current TS//SCI clearance
- Experience with phased array radar design engineering tradeoffs and beamforming techniques
- Experience with signal processing, including FFT, filtering, and detection algorithms.
- Experience with electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) sensor augmentation of radar; multi-sensor capability development
- Experience in advanced radar topics such as Range-Doppler Matrix (RDM) formation, Interrogation Friend-or-Foe (IFF) subsystems, target classification features and methods such as Non-Cooperative Target Recognition (NCTR) and general discrimination waveforms, Electronic Protection (EP) implementations, radar coordinate systems and transformations, and RF Receiver Chain analysis.
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