RF Engineer

With a distinguished heritage tracing back to Bell Labs, Bellcore, and Telcordia, our experts pave the way. Peraton Labs delivers innovative solutions and revolutionary new capabilities to solve the most difficult and complex challenges for government agencies, utilities, and commercial customers. Our research and engineering protects mission-critical systems and a broad range of initiatives in computer network defense, electronic warfare, secure-by-design techniques, and cyber operations and experimentation platforms. Your expertise and areas of interest may be applied on one or more programs, providing you new opportunities to learn and grow.

We are in need of an RF engineer with software development experience to support an electronic warfare (EW) science and technology (S&T) lab in the Electronic Warfare and Survivability division. Responsibilities will generally include developing system/signal of interest (SOI) models or integrating from 3rd parties, and  working with intel and mission partners to develop and evaluate electronic attack (EA) countermeasures in a lab environment to protect Army platforms & soldiers.

Required Skills:

• 5 years with BS/BA; 3 years with MS/MA; 0 years with PhD
• Significant relevant experience will be considered in lieu of formal education

• Experience working in an RF lab environment, including direct-inject (wired) testing.

• Experience working with software defined radios (Ettus, Epiq, etc.), Firmware programming

• Experience with MATLAB (preferably including Simulink) and toolboxes (DSP, signal processing, radar, etc)

• Knowledge of commercial communication protocols

• Software base:  Python, MATLAB, VHDL, C++

• U.S. Citizenship
• Active Secret Clearance with TS/SCI eligibility

Desired Skills:

• Knowledge of open/modular architectures and frameworks (MOSA, CMOSS)
• Experience with common framework environment (CFE) EW framework
• Active TS/SCI Clearance

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.