Receiver Engineer Principal - Kwajalein Atoll - 3056

Job Description

Job Description

Ready to launch your career? RGNext operates, maintains, and sustains mission-critical systems to provide safe and effective launch, testing, and tracking of Department of Defense, civil, commercial and international space lift vehicles. We support ballistic missile, guided weapon and aeronautical tests and evaluations as well as support space situational awareness operations and experiments to defend the United States to ensure our nation’s safety. Our employees serve on the forefront of global defense and space operations. We offer our team of experienced, professional employees an environment of challenging, stimulating and personally and professionally rewarding career opportunities.

This position is located on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

• Provide technical support for all operations of the ALCOR & MMW receivers.
• Provide input for design modifications and improvements for both ALCOR & MMW receivers; this includes creating schematics and implementing modifications as well as directing activities of technicians and helpers to properly install these design modifications.
• Support maintenance efforts on both ALCOR & MMW receivers; directs technicians and helpers to accomplish these maintenance activities.
• Perform testing and failure analysis of the ALCOR & MMW receivers down to the component level; designs and implements corrective measures to prevent future failures.
• Determine ALCOR and MMW receivers spare requirements and orders parts as required; finds replacement candidates for obsolete parts and implements required design changes.
• Provide technical support to Systems Engineering and management for all ALCOR & MMW receiver technical issues.
• Modify and maintain documentation for ALCOR & MMW receivers including but not limited to equipment schematics and manuals; verifies drafting changes to drawings and manuals meet engineering requirements.
• Write weekly reports conveying receiver developments and issues and/or problems to management.
• Provide email correspondence with various vendors and other suppliers as required.
• Provide input regarding performance of junior engineers, technicians, and field engineers.
• Perform other related duties as assigned

• Solid knowledge of the fundamentals of receiver architecture.
• High degree of demonstrated ability to effectively use high frequency, RF and millimeter wave electronic equipment with RF calibration to perform complex measurements in both time and frequency domains.
• Thorough understanding of the radar range equation and frequency correlation, understanding of receiver gain, noise figure, intercept point, spurious frequency response and their measurement methods.
• Design and assembly familiarity with RF to millimeter transmission lines and connectors, coaxial and waveguide.
• Familiarity with coaxial and waveguide RF switching, radar protective and T/R switches, analog and digital control hardware, RFI shielding practices
• Familiarity with software such as Matlab, Microwave Office, Agilent ADS, Spice, OrCAD. Basic familiarity with LINUX commands is desirable.
• Ability to work independently with limited guidance.
• Ability to assist in development of junior engineers and technicians.
• Ability to lead various disciplines in the completion of projects that may sometimes be technically complex.
• Full understanding of the safety issues associated with working at high power RF and X-ray generating equipment that are common in this work environment.

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or related engineering discipline.
• Five years RF and/or Radar experience including:
  1. Field installation and testing, calibration, troubleshooting and acceptance testing.
  2. Design and development engineering.
  3. Project management.
  4. Developing and testing RF systems up to and including Ka-Band.
  5. RF to millimeterwave frequency measurements. High power RF measurement and high voltage troubleshooting is desired.
  6. Mission Operations and Weapons test range systems experience, desired.
  7. Familiarity with Allen-Bradley hardware and software, desired.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• Physical ability to climb and work at heights.
• The flexibility to work occasional non-duty hours or on weekends to support specific project or mission requirements.
• Must be able to relocate to the United States Army Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. passport
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance, which requires U.S. Citizenship.
• Valid U.S. Driver’s License required.

Benefits of Working at RGNext

RGNext offers our team of experienced, professional employees an environment of challenging, stimulating and personally and professionally rewarding career opportunities and growth. Employees enjoy a robust benefit package on day one, which includes medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurances, generous Paid Time Off and holiday pay, a retirement savings plan with a company match and vesting on day one! Other benefits include flexible scheduling, access to on-base fitness centers and more! We are committed to providing employees a quality work/life balance in a productive, evolving environment.

Note: This job description describes the general nature of the duties and requirements of the job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list or to limit the supervisor's ability to modify work assignments as appropriate.

Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state or local laws.