Senior SDR RF Engineer — Real-Time Wireless Systems

Lockheed Martin; Littleton (CO); On-site; USD 167,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

4x10 Flexible schedules

401(k) match

Paid time off

Job summary

Lockheed Martin Space is seeking an experienced Software Defined Radio (SDR) RF Engineer in Littleton, CO to design, develop, and integrate high-performance SDR solutions. You will work on real-time RF signal processing close to the hardware, driving architectures from concept to field deployment.

Responsibilities include leading development of digital communications products, optimizing DSP pipelines, RF front-ends, and synchronization systems, plus hands-on lab and flight testing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Experience developing high-speed digital, DSP, RF systems for terrestrial and/or space applications.
• Experience with digital communications systems, RF architecture, FPGA design, and/or DSP algorithms.
• Experience with missile to missile communications payload architecture (e.g. digital channelization, digital beamforming).

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and fielding of innovative digital communications products, through deployment, leveraging extensive knowledge of high-speed digital, DSP, and RF systems.
• Implement and optimize real-time DSP pipelines, maintain link budgets as well as full cascade analysis for your radios, custom waveform generation, custom frequency plans and communication schedule timelines, modulation/demodulation chains, RF streaming architectures, Incorporation of Cryptographic layer, and throughput signal processing systems
• Interface and drive FPGA & SW-based SDR architectures, and RF front ends and synchronization systems
• Drive software development for low-latency and real-time RF applications
• Perform RF system integration, qualification and acceptance testing, calibration, and troubleshooting
• Push HW through rapid high-rate production, testing and follow missile integration of the RF comms systems
• Analyze and optimize spectral performance, timing synchronization, throughput bottlenecks, and RF impairment
• Integrate SDR platforms into larger communications and/or sensing architectures
• Produce technical documentation, interface definitions, and software architecture artifacts
• Support lab and field testing and flight test activities

Skills

High-speed digital

DSP systems

RF systems

FPGA design

DSP algorithms

Leadership

DoD clearance

US citizenship

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

FPGA design tools

Simulation tools

Job description

Lockheed Martin Space is seeking an experienced Software Defined Radio (SDR) RF Engineer in Littleton, CO to design, develop, and integrate high-performance SDR solutions. You will work on real-time RF signal processing close to the hardware, driving architectures from concept to field deployment.

Responsibilities include leading development of digital communications products, optimizing DSP pipelines, RF front-ends, and synchronization systems, plus hands-on lab and flight testing.