Senior Principal Radar Mode Systems Engineer
Posted on: 8 Mar 2021
Mckinney, TX
Job Description
Raytheon Intelligence and Space (RIS) is growing! We have an immediate career growth opportunity for a Senior Radar Systems Engineer within our Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Systems (ISRS) Mission Area - Surveillance RADAR Department (SRD), Advanced RF Systems Section.
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The Senior Radar Systems Engineer will join our Radar Sensor Systems (RSS) product line team to provide radar algorithm / signal processing mode development to support distributed aperture radar programs. Mode development includes working on multi-function radar capabilities such as AMTI, GMTI, maritime surveillance, sense and avoid, weather detection, terrain detection/avoidance, and communications.
You will provide technical direction leading radar and communications mode design, including software specification definition for implementation of mode functionality; lead design and development of radar and communication waveforms as well as conduct and support signal processing and waveform analyses; develop mathematical algorithms for radar signal processing; make performance predictions and analyze data received from the radar to evaluate algorithm performance; make technical presentations and participate in technical product reviews; regularly interface with other engineering teams and program management; ensure consistent application of engineering best practices - using 6 Sigma proactively to foster a culture of continuous process improvement.
Required Skills:
Minimum 10 years of experience in radar systems engineering and algorithm development to include radar systems, software engineering, radar signal processing techniques, mathematical / radar mode algorithm development, analytic techniques and digital simulation models (DSM).
Experience with MATLAB and C or C++ (coding experience is required).
Experience working with both customer and internal resources.
Requires strong written/verbal communication skills including working with Microsoft Office Suite of
Tools.
Skilled at anticipating problems and planning to mitigate them.
Must be a U.S. Citizen with active (or active within past 2 years) DoD Secret Clearance.
Desired Skills:
Experience with and knowledge of the Systems Engineering lifecycles and demonstrable application of relevant methodologies and toolsets
Mathcad, Python, or related languages and tools
Experience with TF Navigation concepts and algorithms
Radar mode development skills including maritime surveillance, MTI, air-to-air, sense and avoid, weather detection, and terrain detection / terrain avoidance
Digital communications
Strapdown inertial navigation and transfer alignment
Target discriminators and feature extraction / exploitation
Machine-learning experience
Required Education:
Bachelors degree in a related STEM discipline such as Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, etc.
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Raytheon
Waltham, MA
Raytheon Company develops integrated products, services, and solutions for the defense and other government markets worldwide. It operates through five segments: Integrated Defense Systems (IDS); Intelligence, Information and Services (IIS); Missile Systems (MS); Space and Airborne Systems (SAS); and Forcepoint. The IDS segment offers integrated air and missile defense; land-and sea-based radar solutions; command, control, communications, computers, cyber, and intelligence solutions; naval combat and ship electronic and sensing systems; and undersea sensing and effects solutions.
The IIS segment provides technical and professional services, such as navigation, DoD space and weather solutions, cybersecurity, analytics, training, logistics, mission support, software-based systems, automation and sustainment solutions, and air traffic management systems, as well as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions. The MS segment develops and supports weapon systems comprising missiles, smart munitions, close-in weapon systems, projectiles, kinetic kill vehicles, directed energy effectors, and combat sensor solutions.
The SAS segment provides civil and military electro-optical/infrared sensors; airborne radars for surveillance and fire control applications; lasers; precision guidance systems; signals intelligence systems; processors; electronic warfare systems; tactical and strategic communications; and space-qualified systems. The Forcepoint segment offers cyber security products that include risk adaptive data loss prevention; user and entity behavior analytics and cloud access security broker capabilities; insider threat solutions; firewall technology; cloud and on premise Web and email security; and cross domain transfer products.
Raytheon Company has a strategic agreement with AirMap to collaborate on future projects to safely integrate drones into the national airspace system. The company was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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