Receiver Engineer III - Kwajalein Atoll - 3054 - Military Veterans

Ready to launch your career? RGNext operates, maintains, and sustains mission-critical systems to provide safe and effective launch, testing, and tracking of Department of Defense, civil, commercial and international space lift vehicles. We support ballistic missile, guided weapon and aeronautical tests and evaluations as well as support space situational awareness operations and experiments to defend the United States to ensure our nation's safety. Our employees serve on the forefront of global defense and space operations. We offer our team of experienced, professional employees an environment of challenging, stimulating and personally and professionally rewarding career opportunities.

This position is located on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

Essential Functions

• Provide operations, maintenance, and troubleshooting support for L-band and S-band receiver systems, which is a combination of both comerical and custom components, to include providing directions to technicians assisting in accomplishing these tasks.
• Participate (and potentially lead) improvement and modernization efforts to include all phases of development from design through system acceptance.
• Analyze radar systems for performance metrics and provide status reports and recommendations to the Sensor Manager regarding the receiver systems.
• Update and maintain system documentation to include manuals, preventative maintenance schedules, and drawings.
• Establish and maintain a safety conscious work environment in cooperation with the Safety department.
• Collaborate with other groups to include complimentary engineering disciplines to ensure sensor availability is maximized.
• Lead procurement and sparing efforts to include initial component research, vendor selection, and all subsequent actions to ensure necessary components and materials are on hand to support continuous operations.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Required Skills

• General knowledge of Analog/ Radio Frequency (RF) components such as amplifiers, couplers, hybrids, feed structure, filter receivers, exciters, transponders, RF switches, isolators, attenuators, waveguides, etc.
• Familiarity with high power components, receiver systems, analog and digital control hardware, and RFI shielding practices.
• General knowledge of signal modulation, digital pulses, spread spectrum, signal detection, interference analysis, baseband filtering, etc.
• Strong understanding of electrical principles, preferably including the fundamentals of receiver architecture.
• Strong circuit troubleshooting skills and the ability to read and interpret schematics.
• Familiarity with and demonstrated ability to operate standard electronic test equipment, preferably to include high power RF measurement techniques.
• Full understanding of the unique safety issues associated with working at high power RF that are common in this work environment.
• General knowledge of analog-to-digital conversion of RF signals.
• Ability to work independently with limited guidance.
• Ability to assist in development of junior engineers and technicians.
• Ability to lead various disciplines in the completion of projects that may sometimes be technically complex.
• General software literacy in the Microsoft Office Suite.

Required Experience

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science, a STEM field equivalent.
• Minimum of 2 years of related experience including:
• Field installation, calibration, troubleshooting, and/or acceptance testing of radar or similar systems, preferably to include high power RF
• Mission operations and test range systems experience, desired.
• Thorough understanding of the radar range equation and frequency correlation, understanding of receiver gain, noise figure, and their measurement methods, desired.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• Ability to climb and work at heights.
• The flexibility to work occasional non-duty hours or on weekends to support specific project or mission requirements.
• This position is accompanied.
• Must be able to relocate to the United States Army Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. passport
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance, which includes U.S. Citizenship or U.S. naturalization

What We Offer:

• Everyday Wellness: Access to on-base fitness centers, pool, bowling alley, beach access, fishing, scuba diving, snorkeling and golf course.
• Financial Opportunities: 401k savings program with company match and vesting on day one, retail and merchant employee discount programs, life insurance, business travel insurance and more.
• Work/Life Balance: Tuition reimbursement programs and flexible schedules.
• Equal Opportunity: Commitment to diversity and strategic partnerships.

Note: This job description describes the general nature of the duties and requirements of the job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list or to limit the supervisor's ability to modify work assignments as appropriate.

RGNext is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status or any other protected class.