Radar System Analysis Engineer

Overview

SEG, a subsidiary of AXIENT is seeking a Radar System Analysis Engineer to support U.S. Surface Navy and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) projects in Columbia, MD.

This team provides independent verification and validation support for internal system-level products. This offers opportunities to work with SEG sensors, vehicles, phenomenology products and engineers integrated within our simulation software development environment to view the battle environment scenes through the eyes of combat systems.

Responsibilities

We bring threat and weapons knowledge together to support concept definition, threat driver assessments, system requirements, design reviews, test planning, and defining road maps for future development

The team includes subject matter experts and technical leads providing direct technical support to various defense programs as a contributing member of broad cross-functional and technical subject-specific integrated product teams.

Responsibilities:

• Must be able to obtain a US government security clearance and must meet eligibility requirements including US citizenship.
• Characterize sensor performance against threat ballistic and cruise missiles through modeling, simulation and analysis using digital simulations.
• Develop and use analysis tools and other technical methods as required, to analyze performance threat ballistic and cruise missiles
• Develop, integrate, and use analytical models and tools to test new threat data and software products, assess system capability, and drive system requirements and design.
• Support SME in developing radar model simulation based in Python coding language. Development includes but is not limited to addition of functionality supporting detect and track, addition of CFAR capability, generating radar post-processing scripts, and improving overall ease of use.
• Define technical approach and plan studies based on understanding of engineering community and appreciation of customer need.
• Define study measures of performance and effectiveness, design experiments, and demonstrate analytical skills.
• Conduct individual analyses and contribute to team technical studies.
• Communicate with external customers and internal technical staff, via correspondence and briefings.
• Support technical leadership for internal project and contribute to external customer forums.
• Author technical details of statements of work
• Travel is occasionally required to participate in technical forums and reviews.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Must have an active and transferrable DoD security clearance at the required (secret) level.
• Bachelor’s Degree: Systems Engineering, Electrical, Physics, Applied Math, or related technical degree.
• 5 -10 years’ work experience
• Experience with sensors, seekers, or remote sensing in RF and IR bands.
• Programming and scripting experience in a Linux environment

Desired Qualifications:

• Active DoD top secret security clearance
• Masters or PhD degree preferred with relevant research project experience
• MATLAB for the visual display of quantitative information, and prototyping M&S codes
• Python for modeling and simulation development, data analysis, etc.
• Facility working with C API and creating test drivers
• Modeling and analysis experience and capability in one or more of the following areas:
• RF Sensors / EO-IR Imaging / Remote Sensing Systems – Signal Processing, Detection and Track Filtering
• Multi-Sensor Data Fusion, Target Classification and Discrimination (Machine Learning / AI applications)
• Missile Systems (Aerodynamic, Ballistic, Space)
• Defense Weapon System Performance (e.g. Navy Surface systems, Ballistic Missile Defense systems)
• Ground Test and Field Test Events (missile flight and sensor track pre-event prediction and post-mission assessment)
• Familiarity with version-control (Git), issue tracking (JIRA), collaboration software (Confluence), and cross-language software integration tools (SWIG).
• Familiarity with high-performance computing environment

Must meet applicable COVID safety requirements and protocols