RF Engineer

BTS Software Solutions; Maryland; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

PTO

401K matching

Job summary

BTS Software Solutions seeks an RF Engineer at Aberdeen Proving Ground to lead design, development, and integration of custom RF hardware for critical national security missions. You will work across RF, digital, FPGA, and embedded systems to prototype and validate new communications capabilities.

Responsibilities include RF front-end development, FPGA integration, circuit design, and hands-on testing with lab equipment.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience designing, developing, integrating, or troubleshooting RF communication systems or radio hardware.
• Strong understanding of RF fundamentals, including signal chains, filtering, amplification, frequency conversion, impedance matching, noise, and link budgets.
• Experience with analog/digital circuit design and PCB-level hardware development.
• Familiarity with MATLAB/Simulink, Python, C/C++, or embedded Linux.
• Experience developing or integrating FPGA-based systems using Verilog, SystemVerilog, or VHDL.
• Experience integrating embedded processors, FPGAs, RF transceivers, ADCs/DACs, or similar devices.
• Hands‑on experience with RF and electronics test equipment such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, VNAs, signal generators, and logic analyzers.
• Ability to troubleshoot hardware at the component, board, and system levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and integration of custom radio and RF hardware for national security missions.
• Work across RF, digital, FPGA, and embedded systems to create new communications capabilities and prototype solutions.
• Develop and integrate RF front ends, digital processing hardware, and embedded components with lab inspection and testing.
• Collaborate with embedded software, FPGA, cybersecurity, and systems engineering teams to mature radio capabilities.
• Perform RF characterization, troubleshooting, and verifications across component, board, and system levels.

Skills

RF fundamentals

Troubleshooting hardware

Lab testing

Embedded systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline

Tools

MATLAB/Simulink

Python

C/C++

FPGA (Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL)

Embedded Linux

RF test equipment

Job description

Career Opportunities with BTS Software Solutions

BTS is seeking an RF Engineer to provide intelligence support, supporting the Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD) at Aberdeen Proving Ground

What You'll Get to Do

Lead the design, development, and integration of custom radio and RF hardware supporting critical national security missions. You'll work across RF, digital, FPGA, and embedded systems to develop new communications capabilities, troubleshoot complex hardware, and rapidly prototype solutions for advanced mission requirements.

More About the Role

As a Radio Systems / RF Hardware Engineer, you'll provide hands-on engineering expertise across the full radio development lifecycle, from architecture and component selection through circuit design, FPGA integration, board bring-up, and RF characterization. You'll develop and integrate RF front ends, digital processing hardware, and embedded components while using laboratory test equipment to evaluate and troubleshoot system performance. You'll collaborate with embedded software, FPGA, cybersecurity, and systems engineering personnel to develop and mature custom radio capabilities for sophisticated operational environments.

Required Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI security clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience designing, developing, integrating, or troubleshooting RF communication systems or radio hardware.
• Strong understanding of RF fundamentals, including signal chains, filtering, amplification, frequency conversion, impedance matching, noise, and link budgets.
• Experience with analog/digital circuit design and PCB-level hardware development.
• Familiarity with MATLAB/Simulink, Python, C/C++, or embedded Linux.
• Experience developing or integrating FPGA-based systems using Verilog, SystemVerilog, or VHDL.
• Experience integrating embedded processors, FPGAs, RF transceivers, ADCs/DACs, or similar devices.
• Hands‑on experience with RF and electronics test equipment such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, VNAs, signal generators, and logic analyzers.
• Ability to troubleshoot hardware at the component, board, and system levels.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience designing a radio or RF transceiver from the board/component level, not solely integrating commercial radios.
• Experience with software-defined radios, RF transceiver ICs, RF front ends, PLLs, mixers, LNAs, PAs, and filters.
• Experience implementing DSP functions in FPGA logic, including filtering, FFTs, modulation/demodulation, or digital up/down conversion.
• Experience with RF/mixed-signal PCB design, controlled impedance, grounding, shielding, signal integrity, and EMI/EMC considerations.
• Experience with RFSoC, SoC FPGA, high-speed ADC/DAC interfaces, or similar architectures.
• Experience with communications, unmanned systems, electronic warfare, SIGINT, radar, or other RF-intensive defense applications.
• Experience rapidly prototyping and debugging custom RF or embedded hardware.

Company Overview:

BTS Software Solutions is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business who are community-focused innovators who transform ideas into technology to serve people. We recognize that innovation is only valuable when applied towards a needed solution. Technology has no value without the hard work to turn ideas into reality. Our roots are in helping save Soldiers’ lives through technology. We bring that ethos to serving our community. We create solutions that touch people's lives - products to communicate, to connect companies with customers, to stay informed, to save lives, and to enhance lives.

We have a small company persona with a large company ethos and capabilities; we create elegant solutions for complex problems that will enrich people’s lives. We offer one of the best benefits packages in the industry: Competitive health benefits package, PTO, 401K matching and vested from day one to name just a few of our benefits and perks.

BTS Software Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.