Senior Radar Engineer, Mission-Critical Leader

Leidos Inc; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 154,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Lead Radar Engineer to support USASMDC ROSIE program at Reagan Test Range, focusing on operation, sustainment, and modernization of RTR radar instrumentation for missile test and space operations.

The role requires strong radar engineering expertise, hands-on problem solving, and leadership across multiple teams to ensure data quality, availability, and system readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Systems Engineering or related STEM field with 12+ years of relevant experience or Master's with 10+ years.
• Significant experience with complex radar or RF sensor systems including design, RF, antennas, signal processing, or calibration.
• Proven ability to diagnose complex radar-system performance problems using data, tests, and modeling.
• Experience in requirements analysis, design, integration, verification, and transition to an operational environment.
• Experience developing test plans, reviews, and acceptance criteria, with change-control processes.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the program's lead radar engineering SME, providing technical leadership for RTR radar operations, sustainment, and modernization.
• Analyze radar performance and mission data to identify issues and opportunities to improve capability and data quality.
• Lead root-cause analysis of hardware, software, RF, timing, and system-interface problems and drive corrective actions to closure.
• Ensure radar systems meet mission performance, calibration, and availability requirements and substantiate system readiness.
• Lead or support radar Improvements & Modernization studies from requirements through deployment.

Skills

Radar engineering

Systems engineering

Root-cause analysis

Technical leadership

Stakeholder comms

Travel ability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's degree

Tools

ALTAIR

TRADEX

ALCOR

MMW

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Lead Radar Engineer to support USASMDC ROSIE program at Reagan Test Range, focusing on operation, sustainment, and modernization of RTR radar instrumentation for missile test and space operations.

The role requires strong radar engineering expertise, hands-on problem solving, and leadership across multiple teams to ensure data quality, availability, and system readiness.