Senior Radar Engineer — Mission-Critical Missile/Space Ops

NCSL International; Huntsville (AL); Hybrid; USD 154,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos in Huntsville, AL seeks a Lead Radar Engineer to serve as senior technical authority for RTR radar instrumentation, driving sustainment, modernization, integration, and mission readiness. You will work with operations, maintenance, systems engineering, and cybersecurity teams to ensure data quality and available performance across the program.

The role requires deep radar engineering expertise, hands-on problem solving, and collaboration with government stakeholders. U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, Systems Engineering, or related STEM with 12+ years of experience.
• Experience with complex radar/RF sensor systems including radar design, RF, antennas, signal processing, calibration, or imaging.
• Strong root-cause analysis, engineering data interpretation, and communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical leadership for RTR radar operations, sustainment, integration, and test.
• Analyze radar performance data to identify degradation and opportunities to improve capability and reliability.
• Drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions for hardware, software, RF, and system-interface issues.

Skills

Radar engineering

System analysis

Root-cause analysis

RF systems

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering

Master's degree

Tools

MBSE tools

Configuration management

Job description

Leidos in Huntsville, AL seeks a Lead Radar Engineer to serve as senior technical authority for RTR radar instrumentation, driving sustainment, modernization, integration, and mission readiness. You will work with operations, maintenance, systems engineering, and cybersecurity teams to ensure data quality and available performance across the program.

The role requires deep radar engineering expertise, hands-on problem solving, and collaboration with government stakeholders. U.S.