Radar M&S Engineer/Analyst

Axient -

DEFENSE

Responsibilities

Duties will include, but are not limited to:

Support NSWC Dahlgren with Radar threat simulation development, modeling and simulation, system performance predictions, and data analysis.

The candidate will be working on US Navy radar systems and will support modeling and simulation efforts to predict system performance to achieve the overall Navy mission effectiveness.

• Support projects in radar systems, electromagnetic propagation, control systems, and/or signal processing

• Modeling and simulation, performance analysis, or software development

• Support the generation of new threat trajectories in a Radar Common Interface Framework (RCIF) compatible format

• Update SPY-6 waveforms and search design to support new mission requirements

• Update RCIF python code to support required mission engineering study aspects

• Participate in benchmarking activities for RCIF radar models and run RCIF Radar models

• Perform analysis on radar scenario results

• Work with high fidelity threat simulations

• Support radar design tradeoffs for mission support, with the ability to take an existing radar and make software changes to support a challenging threat (i.e., update search volume, waveforms, track initiation logic, etc.)

Travel will be up to 5%

Qualifications

Minimum Skills and Requirements:

• Must be able to obtain and maintain the required DoD security clearance

• Course work or experience in development of modeling and simulation tools for analysis of Electronic or Electro-Magnetic systems

• Matlab/Python (or equivalent) coding proficiency

• Outstanding teamwork, leadership, organization, communication, and leadership skills

• Must be able to work in the Dahlgren VA locality and predominantly onsite NSWCDD

• 0-5 years of experience

Desired Skills:

• Active and transferrable DoD security clearance with current investigation at the required level.

• Prior radar analysis, specification, and design experience

• Experience in radar modeling and simulation including algorithm and software development

• Knowledge of aspect dependent RCS, proficiency in the use of MATLAB to generate trajectories for use in RCIF, knowledge and working experience in Python and Object-Oriented programming, proficiency in the Radar Range Equation (RRE), and the ability to analyze radar simulation data and recognize the validity of the data or if an error exists.

• Experience in Radar System performance evaluation including analysis of recorded radar data with both Matlab and self-developed custom software

• Prior experience with radar design, digital beam forming, signal processing, tracking algorithms, and/or radar resource scheduling

• Prior experience with US Navy radar systems

• Prior experience with US Navy combat system interfaces such as AEGIS or SSDS

Required Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or Software Engineering

Preferred Education:

• Advanced Degree preferred.

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Job ID 2024-5467

Category Engineering - General | All Other

# of Openings 1

Location : Location US-VA-King George

Type Regular, Full-Time

Minimum Education Requirement Bachelor's

Minimum Experience Requirement, Years 0-5 years

Clearance Requirement Secret