Part-Time Airborne Radar Systems Engineer (TS/SCI)

ASEC; Maryland; On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee-owned

Comprehensive benefits package

401(k) with company match

Tuition assistance

Veteran-friendly

Job summary

ASEC is seeking a part-time Aircraft Radar Engineer to support design, integration, testing, and sustainment of airborne radar systems for naval aviation. Located at NAS Patuxent River, MD, the role requires TS/SCI clearance, with about 10% travel.

You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across avionics, software, hardware, and cybersecurity to meet program requirements. The ideal candidate has a strong background in radar principles, RF systems, and verification planning, with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or related.
• Experience supporting design, development, integration, test, or sustainment of radar, avionics, mission systems, or other complex airborne electronic systems.
• Experience with systems engineering activities such as requirements analysis, design reviews, interface management, verification planning, and discrepancy resolution.
• Experience supporting multidisciplinary engineering teams in an acquisition, development, or sustainment environment.
• Knowledge of airborne radar principles, avionics architectures, systems engineering processes, RF systems, and signal processing.

Responsibilities

• Support the design, development, integration, test, and sustainment of airborne radar systems and associated avionics.
• Analyze radar system requirements and interfaces and support allocation of requirements to hardware and software components.
• Develop and review engineering documentation, including requirements, interface control documents, design specifications, verification plans, test procedures, and technical assessments.
• Evaluate radar subsystem designs for technical adequacy, integration, maintainability, and compliance with program requirements.
• Support technical reviews, including SRRs, PDRs, CDRs, TRRs, and configuration control boards.
• Assess radar performance, including detection range, resolution, tracking, clutter and environmental effects, waveform behavior, antenna characteristics, signal processing, and EMI/EMC.
• Support integration of radar systems with mission computers, displays, data buses, power, cooling, and other aircraft avionics.
• Support laboratory, ground, and flight test planning and execution; analyze test data and assist with verification, validation, troubleshooting, and discrepancy resolution.
• Investigate technical issues, perform root-cause analysis, and recommend corrective actions.
• Coordinate with government, industry, fleet, and other technical stakeholders to resolve issues and support capability development.
• Support risk management, configuration management, engineering investigations, and sustainment activities.
• Ensure engineering products and activities comply with applicable airworthiness, systems engineering, safety, cybersecurity, spectrum, and program requirements.

Skills

Radar systems

Airborne avionics

Systems engineering

Test & verification

Root-cause analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or related

Tools

DOORS

Job description

ASEC is seeking a part-time Aircraft Radar Engineer to support design, integration, testing, and sustainment of airborne radar systems for naval aviation. Located at NAS Patuxent River, MD, the role requires TS/SCI clearance, with about 10% travel.

You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across avionics, software, hardware, and cybersecurity to meet program requirements. The ideal candidate has a strong background in radar principles, RF systems, and verification planning, with