Senior Cyber RF Hardware Engineer

<p>STR’s&nbsp;<strong>Cyber Division&nbsp;</strong>is hiring a&nbsp;<strong>Senior Cyber RF Hardware Engineer&nbsp;</strong>who will leverage their RF, analog/mixed signal and digital design skills to contribute to a multi-disciplinary team engaged in solving unique problems. The successful candidate will be comfortable designing, analyzing, and characterizing a variety of hardware architectures to aid with software and hardware modeling efforts. They should have a firm grasp of the fundamentals of computer architecture to support both software and hardware reverse engineering tasks and be able to use their hardware expertise to rapidly prototype solutions.</p> <p>We are seeking candidates with design experience to participate in the development of RF Hardware in the Loop (HWIL) systems, surrogate builds, digital twins, and hardware modeling support platforms that integrate a variety of electrical subsystems, ranging from commercial off the shelf (COTS) components to custom-designed boards. The successful candidate will contribute to the design process of a growing hardware team by participating in design reviews, producing comprehensive design documentation, and collaborating to ensure quality outputs and support for future design re-use.</p> <p><strong><em>What you will do:</em></strong></p> <ul> <li>Develop rapid prototype RF solutions to go from free space to bits using a combination of COTS and custom designs</li> <li>Develop PCB-based designs and implement FPGA and embedded software to support HWIL and surrogate designs</li> <li>Integrate processor/microcontroller debuggers to extract binary data and integrate in circuit probing solutions to characterize dynamic program execution</li> <li>Work in a laboratory environment utilizing test equipment (oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, VNAs etc.) to characterize and debug complex electronic systems</li> <li>Prepare and execute test events for customers and internal and external stakeholders</li> <li>Lead efforts to develop lab-based acquisition and control platforms to aid in test and characterization of hardware systems</li> <li>Serve as the hardware team representative on interdisciplinary efforts to contribute knowledge of system architecture and focused processor implementations</li> <li>Participate in proposal efforts by providing input on technical path and BOM/cost and schedule estimates</li> </ul> <p><strong>&nbsp;Who you are:</strong></p> <ul> <li>This position requires the ability to obtain a Top Secret (TS) security clearance, for which U.S. citizenship is needed by U.S. Government</li> <li>BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field with 5 years of related experience OR a MS and 3 years</li> <li>