Wireless Network Engineer

Jobtailor; Maryland; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a systems engineer to advance next-generation wireless networking capabilities for mission-critical environments. You will lead concept development, prototype design, and translate customer needs into executable architectures and prototypes.

In this role, you will collaborate across research, planning, integration, and evaluation of high-speed transport technologies, perform network modeling and simulation, and mentor junior engineers while supporting rapid prototyping in

Qualifications

• Experience designing, integrating, and developing advanced wireless network capabilities.
• Knowledge of how applications, transports, and mission services interact in contested environments.
• Familiarity with military radio waveforms, transport, and mission-critical networking systems.

Responsibilities

• Support concept development, prototype design, and solutions ideation for next-generation network capabilities.
• Oversee research, design, planning, integration, and evaluation of advanced wireless and high-speed transport technologies.
• Translate customer needs and strategic objectives into architectures and prototype implementations of new solutions.
• Conduct in-depth assessments of customer requirements.
• Perform network modeling and simulation activities.
• Evaluate and optimize performance.
• Provide technical consulting to define solution requirements for mission applications.
• Mentor emerging engineers.

Skills

Wireless design

Agile & DevSecOps

Requirements analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering or STEM

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Simulation software

Networking simulators

Job description

Responsibilities

• Support concept development, prototype design, and solutions ideation for next‑generation network capabilities
• Oversee research, design, planning, integration, and evaluation of advanced wireless and high‑speed transport technologies
• Translate customer needs and strategic objectives into actionable architectures and prototype implementations of new and novel solutions
• Conduct in‑depth assessments of customer requirements
• Perform network modeling and simulation activities
• Evaluate and optimize performance
• Provide technical consulting to define solution requirements to optimize for mission application needs
• Mentor emerging engineers

Requirements

• Experience designing, integrating, and developing advanced wireless network capabilities using flexible software architectures and commercial off the shelf hardware
• Knowledge of how applications, transports, and mission services interact across contested and bandwidth‑limited environments
• Knowledge of military radio waveforms, transport, communications planning systems, and mission critical networking systems including interoperability across heterogeneous transports, routing frameworks, tactical‑edge networks, and government mission systems supporting the Department of War
• Ability to work in Agile development environments with continuous integration and DevSecOps practices that enable rapid prototyping, iterative refinement, and accelerated delivery of fieldable wireless networking capabilities
• Ability to establish trust, communicate effectively, and maintain strong relationships with clients, mission operators, network stakeholders, and technical partners to ensure alignment between operational networking needs and technical designs or capability roadmaps
• Ability to travel up to 15% of the time
• Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, or a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field