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PDS Defense
Company : PDS Defense
PDS Defense, Inc. is seeking a Electrophysics Engr/Scientist 5, in Huntsville, AL.
Job Description:
* The Missiles and Weapons Systems (MWS) organization is dynamic and growing with a leadership team focused on attracting and developing top talent in support of critical missions for National Defense and Strategic Deterrence.
* Connected to our customers’ missions, we deliver unique capability through our exceptional talent.
* The programs that we support in Huntsville, Alabama include Ground-based Midcourse Defense, precision-guided munitions, and Integrated Air & Missile Defense products (PAC-3, Avenger, ABMD); Missile Defense Agency National Team (Systems Engineering, C2BMC), and Strategic Deterrence Systems (which includes Minuteman ICBM support and guidance system repair).
* As a Senior Lead Antenna and RF/Microwave Design & Analysis Engineer you will support radar design efforts spanning antenna/receiver/transmitter/exciter system architecture development; system requirements generation/flow down; system design/analysis; schematic design/layout; and system performance verification including range and lab testing.
* You will ideally have experience designing phased array antennas; RFIC/MMIC and analog circuit blocks such as power amplifiers, switches, low-noise amplifiers, phase shifters, and/or attenuators; and/or high-performance millimeter wave GaAs or GaN MMIC power amplifiers with simultaneous power, bandwidth, efficiency, and linearity requirements.
Position responsibilities could include:
* Develop and validate requirements for various designs and components
* Identify architectures to integrate systems and components into higher level systems
* Propose strategic design solutions and perform trade studies, modeling, simulation and other forms of analysis to predict component, interconnects and system performance and to optimize design around established requirements
* Create detailed designs (and/or lead suppliers’ design) of RF circuits, components, or sub-systems.
* Define and conducts tests to validate performance of designs to requirements
* Manage appropriate aspects of supplier and partner performance to ensure compliance to requirements
* Provide support to products throughout their lifecycle by developing root-cause analysis of anomalies and other engineering support for continuous improvement efforts as requested
* Support project management by providing work statement, budget, schedule and other required inputs and by reporting project status
* You will also provide input and oversight to internal and external development programs
* Demonstrate proficiency of one or more analysis tools, such as Ansys HFSS and TICRA Antenna Analysis tools
* Effectively communicate with both internal and external customers
* This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at one of the listed location options.
* This position requires an active US DoD Secret (or higher) Security Clearance.
Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):
* Bachelor’s, Master’s or Doctorate of Science degree from an accredited course of study, in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry
* 10+ years of experience in the field of RF/Microwave electronics design and test
* An active US DoD Secret (or higher) Security Clearance.
Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):
* 12+ years of experience with engineering concepts, processes and methods
* 3+ years of experience system engineering, including system architecture, requirements and interface development and allocation, verification, and validation
* 5+ years of experience providing technical oversight of RF/microwave system or component suppliers
* Full product life-cycle engineering experience: ie, conceptualization, design/development, test/verification, production/continuous improvement, and sustainment
* 5+ years of experience with mentoring early-careers and less-experienced engineers
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