Senior SAR Radar Engineer: Shape Next-Gen Sensing

Insight Global; Linthicum (MD); On-site; USD 175,000 - 260,000; Full time

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Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Senior Radar Engineer with deep SAR expertise to support design, development, integration, and performance optimization of airborne and space-based sensing systems. You will work with industry-leading engineers on radar technologies for national security, ISR, and sensor programs.

The role emphasizes solving signal processing, RF, and systems engineering challenges across the radar lifecycle. Mentorship and technical strategy across programs are expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related STEM field.
• 8+ years radar engineering experience.
• Demonstrated SAR expertise.
• Experience across engineering lifecycle (design, modeling, fielding).
• Strong background in radar theory, detection/estimation, SAR image formation.
• Experience with MATLAB, Python, C++, Simulink.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of advanced SAR radar systems and architectures.
• Develop and evaluate radar concepts, waveforms, and performance budgets.
• Analyze SAR image formation, resolution, clutter, and detection capabilities.
• Design, implement, and optimize radar signal processing algorithms.
• Support end-to-end radar performance modeling and simulation.
• Perform radar phenomenology analysis including propagation, clutter, noise, interference, and targets.
• Conduct trade studies on antenna design, RF architectures, waveform selection, processing approaches.
• Support airborne or ground-based radar integration, test, fielding activities.
• Analyze radar collection data and provide performance improvement recommendations.
• Collaborate with RF engineers, software developers, systems engineers, and intelligence analysts.
• Present findings to customers, program leadership, and government stakeholders.
• Mentor junior radar engineers and guide technical strategy across programs.

Skills

Radar engineering

SAR expertise

Signal processing

Systems engineering

MATLAB

Python

C++

Simulink

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related STEM field

Tools

MATLAB

Python

C++

Simulink

Job description

Insight Global is seeking a Senior Radar Engineer with deep SAR expertise to support design, development, integration, and performance optimization of airborne and space-based sensing systems. You will work with industry-leading engineers on radar technologies for national security, ISR, and sensor programs.

The role emphasizes solving signal processing, RF, and systems engineering challenges across the radar lifecycle. Mentorship and technical strategy across programs are expected.