NAVWAR Engineer: PNT & EW Systems Innovator

Bowhead; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Bowhead seeks an NAVWAR Engineer to support the Joint Navigation Warfare Center (JNWC) in Albuquerque, NM. You will contribute to NAVWAR mission planning, developing signal processing and RF solutions for PNT superiority, and collaborate with DoD customers on integrating EW, radar, and communications capabilities.

Candidates should have a BS in engineering, 3–10 years of relevant experience, and a track record of leadership.

Qualifications

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

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.

Skills

Leadership experience

Systems engineering

Education

BS in engineering

MS Degree

Professional Engineer (PE) license

Job description

Bowhead seeks an NAVWAR Engineer to support the Joint Navigation Warfare Center (JNWC) in Albuquerque, NM. You will contribute to NAVWAR mission planning, developing signal processing and RF solutions for PNT superiority, and collaborate with DoD customers on integrating EW, radar, and communications capabilities.

Candidates should have a BS in engineering, 3–10 years of relevant experience, and a track record of leadership.