RF Engineer (Engineer - RF 4)

28 Mar 2024

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Requisition Number: 12702 Required Travel: 0 - 10% Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt Hours Per Week: 40.00 Security Clearance: TS/SCI Level of Experience: Mid

Job Description

HII is recognized as one of America's top large company employers and is driven by strong values and ethics that puts people's safety and well-being first. HII employees continuously rise to the challenge of setting the highest standard of professional and ethical conduct and perform in concert with our company slogan "Hard Stuff Done Right".

We are in need of a motivated RF Engineer to support our Mission Technologies Division, which has over 100 facilities worldwide and provides capabilities to support an all-domain force that includes artificial intelligence and machine learning, autonomous systems, critical nuclear operations, LVC systems, cyberspace strategies, and platform modernization.

RF Engineer - Responsible for analyzing and developing wireless telecommunications capabilities for various operations. Design and build custom applications. Design, plan, establish, and optimize wireless networks. Develop wireless network infrastructures and make recommendations on systems enhancements for optimization. Provide technical assessment of requirements and definition from conception to launch. Design and validate RF link performance, quality and reliability. Use measuring and diagnostic tools to test and adjust equipment. Create manuals and support documentation. Develop software for wireless technology. Optimize existing network by adjusting radio network parameters, adding/deleting of neighbors and recommending possible solutions to hardware problems. Monitor and analyze statistical and drive test data to improve system performance indicators such as dropped calls, blocked calls, origination failures, and handoff features. Apply propagation theory, cellular theory, and antenna theory to choose tower antenna placement. Responsible for capacity planning, GSM frequency planning and frequency hopping by applying Carrier/Interference (C/I) ratio analysis. Recommend site upgrade such as down tilling of antenna and re-orientation of radio additions. Support customers in the development, acquisition, and sustainment activities of complex RF systems used in Communications, Radar, and Electronic Warfare. Responsibilities will include the design and evaluation of up/down converters, and amplifiers, MMICs, MCMs, and TRMs. Reverse engineer legacy RF hardware systems to develop obsolesce plans, test procedures, and perform trade analysis. Conduct and develop Test and Evaluation plans for RF test stations and field test events for system/subsystem manufacturing and fleet support. Must be able to develop and present technical reports; perform modeling and simulation of RF circuits and RF propagation; and have experience designing radar phased array T/R modules. Have highly desired experience with Agilent ADS, ANSYS HFSS, NI LabView, and MATLAB; Modeling Near-Field antenna patterns; and phase noise analysis. Proficient with MS tools.

Essential Job Responsibilities

Provides technical support to business area management and staffs for personal computer systems software, hardware, and network connectivity. Installs, configures and troubleshoots desktop systems, workstations, and network connectivity issues. Accountable for asset management of the information technology hardware. May assign and maintain user passwords for specialized software.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 5 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 3 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; 0 years experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 9 years relevant experience.
  • Must have an active TS/SCI

Physical Requirements

May require working in an office, industrial, shipboard, or laboratory environment. Capable of climbing ladders and tolerating confined spaces and extreme temperature variances.

This opportunity resides with Cyber & Electronic Warfare, a business group within HII's Mission Technologies division. HII works within our nation's intelligence and cyber operations communities to defend our interests in cyberspace. Our deep expertise in network architecture, software and hardware development, cybersecurity and the electromagnetic environment uniquely enables us to support sensitive missions for federal agency partners.

HII is a global engineering and defense technologies provider. With a 135-year history of trusted partnerships in advancing U.S. national security, HII delivers critical capabilities ranging from the most powerful and survivable naval ships ever built, to unmanned systems, ISR and AI/ML analytics. HII leads the industry in mission-driven solutions that support and enable a networked, all-domain force. Headquartered in Virginia, HII's skilled workforce is 44,000 strong. For more information, please visit: hii.com.

HII is an Equal Opportunity/Vets and Disabled Employer. U.S. Citizenship may be required for certain positions.

  • ID: #49573360
  • State: Virginia Alexandria 22301 Alexandria USA
  • City: Alexandria
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2023-03-28
  • Deadline: 2023-05-26
  • Category: Et cetera