Radar Engineer with Security Clearance - Bedford, MA, United States - MITRE Corporation

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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:
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