What are the responsibilities and job description for the NAVWAR Engineer - Interim Secret Clearance position at Aegis Aerospace?
NAVWAR Engineer with Secret Clearance
Kirtland AFB. Albuquerque, NM
TS / SCI Clearance is required for consideration.
In support of the Joint Navigation Warfare Center (JNWC) contract, you will be a part of our team's efforts to empower the Department of Defense's navigation warfare (NAVWAR) mission ensuring positioning, navigation and timing superiority. Our mission is to provide combatant commanders and joint force commanders with subject matter expertise on planning and conducting NAVWAR by providing knowledge of friendly and enemy NAVWAR Order of Battle and PNT-related successes and threats.
Responsibilities :
- Provide research and development of multi-function small form factor payloads for completing NAVWAR-based missions.
- Develop and analyze models of novel algorithmic concepts to produce distributed electronic sensing effects for NAVWAR payloads.
- Utilize EW signal processing algorithms that enable threat detection and identification for employing countermeasures.
- Develop systems to support GPS system hardening to prevent NAVWAR effects on blue force systems
- Develop RF hardware and software solutions for integrating EW, Comms, and Radar missions into a small form factor payload.
- Investigate heterogeneous sensing concepts across different platforms (i.e. manned and unmanned, high altitude ISR, ALE, etc.). Investigate sensing approaches with passive modes.
- Design and implement testing of RF and other hardware portions of software defined radio frameworks
- Reverse engineer existing NAVWAR signal processing solutions
- Synthesize and allocate system requirements, and derive requirements to ensure the system architecture is fully defined, understood, and compliant to mission needs
- Support development and implementation of client requirements for RF solutions including services, products, technologies and capabilities which encompass airborne mission environments.
- Performs Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) testing on systems that can be impacted by denial / deception of PNT / GPS
- Support technical reviews of vendor hardware and software products and deliverables, interface development and development of software algorithms and models for simulation.
- Research of the state-of-the-art signal processing algorithms.
- Work with customers (both internal and external to JNWC) to help integrate solutions into a wide variety of applications and use cases
- Debug, test, and validate our capabilities using both unit tests as well as scenarios reported by the JNWC or JNWC Customers
Required experience :
Percentage of travel required : up to 10%
Preferred experience :
About Aegis Aerospace
We are a woman-owned space and technology company headquartered in Houston, TX. Our primary objective is to support the Department of Defense and NASA in achieving their missions to defend the security of our country, reach new heights and to discover the unknown. We employ some of the brightest, most experienced engineering and technology experts in the U.S.
To learn more about Aegis Aerospace, visit our website at www.aegisaero.com .
Aegis Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer / M / F / disability / protected veteran employer.
