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National Security Agency · 17 hours ago

Radio Frequency (RF) Design Engineer - Experienced Level (Maryland)

Fort Meade, MD

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$105K/yr - $153K/yr

3+ years exp

The National Security Agency (NSA) is seeking talented colleagues to join their RF Engineering team, dedicated to solving unique intelligence problems. The role involves designing and deploying advanced RF systems and technologies to support the nation's critical intelligence needs.

National Security

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Design, build, test and deploy end-to-end RF systems, from the antenna through follow-on processors

Design, build, test and deploy communications systems using commercial off the shelf (COTS)/government off the shelf (GOTS) radios, software-defined radios (SDR) and SDR frameworks, as well as field programmable gate array (FPGA) technologies

Design, develop, construct, test and maintain hardware and software processing components; typically subsystems of communication, collection, processing or analysis systems

Conduct RF site surveys and include results in the design and performance assessments of RF systems

Work with and/or lead project teams to satisfy operational requirements for RF systems

Analyze results of RF collection in support of national mission requirements

Lead new advances in RF engineering and push the leading edge of RF communications technologies:

Antenna theory, design, and fabrication techniques with particular focus on beam-forming technologies

Modulation (BPSK, QPSK, spread spectrum, etc.), demodulation and signal separation techniques

Low power, space and cooling environments (including embedded systems)

Commercial telecommunication standards, protocols and topologies

Compression and other bandwidth optimization techniques

RF interference detection and mitigation approaches

Active RF techniques

Low probability intercept (LPI) and low probability of detection (LPD) techniques

Service-oriented architectures

Qualification

RF system designAntenna designSignal processingDigital signal processingFPGA technologiesSoftware-defined radioCommunication protocolsLab equipment operationProblem-solvingCommunication skillsInterpersonal skillsTeamwork

Required

Relevant experience in the design and engineering of communication systems and/or radio frequency (RF) systems, and/or experience with test equipment

A degree in Engineering, entry is with a Bachelor's degree plus 3 years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree plus 1 year of relevant experience, or a Doctoral degree and no experience. The program must be ABET accredited or include specified coursework

A degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a relevant professional technical field, entry is with a Bachelor's degree plus 3 years of relevant experience, or a Master's or Doctoral degree plus 1 year of relevant experience. These degrees must include specified coursework

Specified coursework includes courses in differential and integral calculus and 5 of the following 18 areas: (a) statics or dynamics, (b) strength of materials/stress-strain relationships, (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics, (d) thermodynamics, (e) electromagnetic fields, (f) nature and properties of materials/relating particle and aggregate structure to properties, (g) solid state electronics, (h) microprocessor applications, (i), computer systems, (j) signal processing, (k) digital design, (l) systems and control theory, (m) circuits or generalized circuits, (n) communication systems, (o) power systems, (p) computer networks, (q) software development, (r) Any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, or soil mechanics