Senior Digital RF Engineer (Hardware Engineer 4) - 19475

Requisition Number: 19475 

Required Travel: 0 - 10%

Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt

Security Clearance: Ability to Obtain  

Level of Experience: Senior 

 

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.

 

Meet HII’s Mission Technologies Division
Our team of more than 7,000 professionals worldwide delivers all-domain expertise and advanced technologies in service of mission partners across the globe. Mission Technologies is leading the next evolution of national defense – the data evolution - by accelerating a breadth of national security solutions for government and commercial customers. Our capabilities range from C5ISR, AI and Big Data, cyber operations and synthetic training environments to fleet sustainment, environmental remediation and the largest family of unmanned underwater vehicles in every class. Find the role that’s right for you. Apply today. We look forward to meeting you.

 

To learn more about Mission Technologies, click here for a short video: https://vimeo.com/732533072

 

Job Description

Are you bored with the standard product development pipeline? 

Do you enjoy tinkering and learning how things work? 

 

HII Mission Technologies (HII MT) is seeking talented engineers who are excited to work in a flipped engineering environment. Our team in Roanoke, VA specializes in reverse engineering and microelectronics trust and assurance. 

  

Candidates for this position will contribute to the team by utilizing in-house software tools to reverse engineer hardware assets provided by the U.S. government. During the analysis, engineers will be expected to provide expertise on Digital RF systems including embedded software wireless radios, digital wireless communications, digital signal processors, Wifi, cellular communications, satellite communications, and handheld wireless communications. 

  

The ideal candidate will have experience with RF system design and verification, especially the digital front-end. Experience with hardware hacking and RF-based attacks is also valued in this position. 

Essential Job Responsibilities

Candidates for this position will be responsible for performing hardware analysis and reverse engineering of DoD assets. 

Candidates will be expected to produce clear documentation explaining the components, capabilities, and features of asset systems. 

The use of HII proprietary tools, vendor tools, and other  modeling, simulation, and analysis of targeted systems. 

Effective collaboration with teammates to produce cohesive results and create improved processes is required. 

Candidates must be U.S. citizens and be willing and able to obtain a DoD security clearance (if not already cleared).  

Minimum Qualifications

9 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 7 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; 4 years relevant experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in realted field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 13 years relevant experience.

 

You will meet our minimum qualifications if you… 
•    Are a United States citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance 
•    Have a bachelor’s ABET accredited degree with 5+ years of experience in a relevant engineering discipline 
•    Or have a master’s ABET accredited degree in a relevant engineering discipline 

•    Experience with algorithms and processing steps applied to digitized RF data found in telecom, satcom, and software defined radios (SDRs). 

•    Experience with the design or verification of digital front ends (DFEs) used modern RF-SOCs. 

•    Have the ability to learn new skills quickly 

Preferred Requirements

You will go above and beyond if you… 

•    Already possess an active security clearance 

•    Have experience with designing RF 

•    Have experience with Radio Resource Management functionalities, e.g., handover control, admission controls, capacity management, etc. 

•    Have experience with 3G, 4G, LTE, 5G and Wireless Broadband technologies 

•    Have experience with modifying hardware to perform non-intended tasks 

•    Have experience with Software Defined Radio systems 

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