NAVWAR Engineer

UICGS / Bowhead Family of Companies; Kirtland (NM); On-site; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Bowhead Family of Companies seeks a NAVWAR Engineer to support the Joint Navigation Warfare Center (JNWC) in Albuquerque, NM. You will empower the DoD’s navigation warfare mission, delivering expertise on planning and conducting NAVWAR, including threat analysis and PNT-related considerations.

Responsibilities include developing NAVWAR payloads, researching algorithms for distributed sensing, applying EW processing, GPS hardening, RF/SDR integration, HWIL testing, and collaborating with

Qualifications

• BS in an engineering discipline or related field.
• From 3 to 10 years of relevant experience.
• Must have prior leadership or management experience in higher-level roles.

Responsibilities

• Serves as baseline NAVWAR engineer.
• Develops multi-function NAVWAR payloads for missions.
• Develops models of novel algorithms for distributed electronic sensing.
• Applies EW signal processing to detect threats and enable countermeasures.
• Supports GPS hardening to protect blue force systems.
• Creates RF hardware/software solutions integrating EW, Communications, and Radar.
• Investigates heterogeneous sensing across platforms and passive modes.
• Designs and tests RF and SDR components in hardware-in-the-loop.
• Reverse engineers NAVWAR signal processing solutions.
• Derives system requirements and ensures architecture meets mission needs.
• Supports client requirements for RF solutions for airborne missions.
• Performs HWIL testing on systems affected by PNT/GPS denial.
• Reviews vendor hardware/software and assists with interface development.
• Researches state-of-the-art signal processing algorithms.
• Collaborates with internal/external customers to integrate solutions.
• Debugs, tests, and validates capabilities with unit tests and JNWC scenarios.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Leadership experience

NAVWAR knowledge

Signal processing

Education

BS in an engineering discipline or related field

MS Degree

Professional Engineer (PE) license

Job description

Bowhead seeks an NAVWAR Engineer to support the Joint Navigation Warfare Center (JNWC) in Albuquerque, NM.

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

• Serves as baseline Navwar engineer
• 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
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• BS in an engineering discipline or a related field
• From 3 to 10 years of relevant experience
• Must have prior leadership or management experience in higher-level roles

Desired

• Professional Engineer License (PE) for senior level
• MS Degree

SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS

Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI clearance. May begin work with an Interim Secret clearance or higher. US Citizenship is a requirement for Top Secret clearance at this location. Applicants with an In-Scope DoW Secret or Top Secret are preferred.

Physical Demands

• Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds
• Must be able to stand and walk for prolonged amounts of time
• Must be able to twist, bend and squat periodically