Radar Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Mount Indie is looking for a Radar Engineer to join our team working at the Missile Defense Agency in Huntsville, Alabama.In this role you will get to provide system engineering support to assist the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Radar Team supporting a SETA role.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Perform technical assessment and programmatic support for the MDA Ground Sensors Directorate Long Range Discrimination Radar Product Office in support of the Hardware Integrated Product Team (HW IPT)
• Review documents and processes of prime contractor to ensure contractual requirements are being met
• Perform Bidirectional requirement flow from element specification (ES), prime item development specification (PIDS), & hardware requirement specification (HRS)
• Perform verification and validation of requirements
• Travel (20%) to RADAR locations OCONUS and Prime\other Contractor Facilitiesto support hardware manufacturing, site integration, architecture, and test

Position Required:

• 7+ years working on missile defense-related or other complex, large DoD program/project
• BS in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math
• Knowledge and application of phased array radar theory, function, and design
• Knowledge of experience with RADAR hardware
• DoD Secret Clearance or higher required

Position Required:

• Detailed experience with Radar Hardware Components
• Verifying Prime Item Development Specification (PIDS)
• Familiarity with a Subarray Suite and its components
• Design Implementation, Performance Analysis, and Integration and Testing of ground based radar systems
• Radar front end design, modeling and testing
• Integration and testing of Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) system and associated subsystems
• Experience integrating a design into an operational environment
• Experience with In-phase (I) and Quadrature (Q) radar performance data analysis
• Experience performing detailed radar system analysis and antenna performance
• Experience with test readiness reviews (TRRs), technical interchange meetings (TIMs), technology readiness assessments and levels (TRAs/TRLs), design reviews (PDR, CDR, FDR), production readiness assessments (PRRs), manufacturing readiness assessments and levels (MRAs/MRLs), Agile Design Processes, etc.
• Experience with Systems Engineering processes
• Experience with writing/reviewing statement of work (SOW) requirements and deliverables/objective evidence (OE) such as contract data requirements lists (CDRLs) and accessible data products (ADPs)
• Competent in the MS Office software suite (Outlook, Word, Power Point, and Excel)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Working knowledge of MDA Systems Engineering processes and procedures
• Working knowledge of MDA organizational structure
• Experience/familiarity with DoD/MDA lifecycle acquisition processes and requirements