Senior Radar Engineer - Secret Clearance

ESR Healthcare; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Referral bonus $2,000

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Lead Radar Engineer in Huntsville, AL to serve as the senior technical authority for radar instrumentation in missile test and space operations. You will blend deep radar engineering expertise with hands‑on problem solving and leadership to ensure data quality and mission readiness.

The role requires coordinating across hardware/software engineering, mission planning, data analysis, cybersecurity, and modernization teams, and travel to CONUS/OCONUS locations as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, Systems Engineering, or a closely related STEM discipline with 12+ years of relevant experience; or a Master’s degree with 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Significant engineering experience with complex radar or RF sensor systems including radar design, RF systems, antennas, signal processing, or calibration.
• Ability to diagnose complex radar-system performance problems using analysis, data, tests, and modeling.
• Experience with requirements analysis, design, integration, verification, validation, testing, and transition to operational environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the program’s lead radar engineering subject matter expert for operations, sustainment, modernization, and test.
• Analyze radar performance and mission data to identify issues and opportunities for improvement.
• Lead root‑cause analysis of complex radar hardware, software, RF, and timing problems and drive corrective actions.
• Ensure radar systems meet mission performance, calibration, and reliability requirements; substantiate system readiness.
• Evaluate radar data and support post‑mission analysis, lessons learned, and performance issues.
• Identify risks and develop mitigation and contingency approaches for mission readiness.

Skills

Radar engineering expertise

Systems engineering

Problem solving

Stakeholder communication

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Physics, or Systems Engineering

Tools

ALTAIR

TRADEX

ALCOR

MMW

RTR Instrumentation

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Lead Radar Engineer in Huntsville, AL to serve as the senior technical authority for radar instrumentation in missile test and space operations. You will blend deep radar engineering expertise with hands‑on problem solving and leadership to ensure data quality and mission readiness.

The role requires coordinating across hardware/software engineering, mission planning, data analysis, cybersecurity, and modernization teams, and travel to CONUS/OCONUS locations as needed.