Senior RF Engineer — Space & Missile Radar Lead

Qualis LLC; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off and holidays

Education and certification reimburse-

Disability and Life Insurance

Job summary

Qualis LLC in Huntsville, AL seeks a Lead RF Engineer to advance SDA and MW radar technology. The role requires senior technical leadership in RF design, integration, and testing within a hybrid development environment.

The successful candidate will guide cross-disciplinary teams, optimize RF systems, and ensure robust performance across hardware, firmware, and software interfaces. U.S. citizenship and DoD clearance are required.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with RF hardware design, measurements, calibration, and hardware/software troubleshooting.
• Experience providing technical direction and coordinating RF engineering activities across disciplines.
• Experience with design, integration, and transitioning products from development to production, and obsolescence management.
• Understanding of the product lifecycle and applying standards, principles, theories, concepts, processes, and techniques.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen with ability to obtain an Active DoD Secret Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead RF engineering execution, provide technical direction, and resolve design tradeoffs and issues across the hardware-in-the-loop system.
• Develop RF plans, coordinate activities, and conduct design reviews with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Define RF subsystem requirements, architectures, and interfaces translating performance needs to specs.
• Perform link-budget, frequency, and interference analyses to assess gain, loss, noise, and dynamic range.
• Guide transmit/receive, channel-simulation, and frequency-conversion designs including amplifiers, filters, and mixers.
• Establish RF routing and interconnection designs, cabling, connectors, and impedance matching.
• Guide RF and interface-board schematic/PCB development, materials, shielding, grounding, and thermal effects.
• Establish hardware selection criteria, review BOMs, and coordinate procurement and supplier issues.
• Define hardware, firmware, and software interfaces, coordinating RF control and timing synchronization.
• Plan and lead RF integration and verification, troubleshoot and address test results.

Skills

RF hardware design

RF measurements

Calibration

Troubleshooting (hardware/software)

Technical leadership

Cross-disciplinary coordination

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Graduate Degree

Job description

Qualis LLC in Huntsville, AL seeks a Lead RF Engineer to advance SDA and MW radar technology. The role requires senior technical leadership in RF design, integration, and testing within a hybrid development environment.

The successful candidate will guide cross-disciplinary teams, optimize RF systems, and ensure robust performance across hardware, firmware, and software interfaces. U.S. citizenship and DoD clearance are required.