Lead EW Engineer

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MITRE’s Multi-Domain Sensing and Electromagnetics Department - within MITRE’s Signals and Electronics Division is a broad team focused on designing, prototyping, evaluating, testing and fielding disruptive solutions in the following technology areas:

• Sensors (Radar, EO, IR, Hyperspectral, LiDAR)
• HF sensing and communications
• Antennas and electromagnetics
• Signal Processing and Algorithm Development
• Electronic Warfare (EW) for Radar

We are looking to grow our team and are seeking highly talented and motivated candidates with strong technical skills in EW and a desire to work in a dynamic environment accelerating solutions to current and future U.S. government needs.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Foster and develop innovative, transformational solutions to EW related challenges and capability gaps for both fielded and developmental systems
• Provide objective analysis of EW capabilities that informs senior leader decisions on modernization, interoperability, and investment portfolio priorities
• Lead sponsor engagement with MITRE project leaders to shape opportunities and expand work into new areas.
• Provide expert technical review to MITRE products related to or touching on EW to ensure rigorous quality and defensible recommendations to the government
• Participate in MITRE’s presence in peer-reviewed publications, patent submissions, and external conferences/workshops

Basic Qualifications:

• Requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience related to EW.
• Understanding of EW operational concepts, platform integration, mission systems, spectrum challenges, and threat environments.
• Familiarity with test and evaluation, operational experimentation, modeling and simulation, or mission engineering in EW contexts.
• Experience with at least one of EW strategy development, portfolio analysis, investment planning, or capability assessments.
• Experience assessing future EW capabilities, developing an architecture or roadmap, conducting mission-level trade studies, or evaluating operational concepts.
• Strong critical thinking, analytic, and problem-solving skills – comfortable working in dynamic settings where task objectives may evolve or need to be shaped, or creative solutions to task impediments must be identified.
• Excellent interpersonal and technical communication skills, with the ability to write technical reports, present briefings, and persuasively speak to audiences of all backgrounds, including customers.
• Demonstrated ability to work in an interdisciplinary team environment, establish and leverage a diverse professional network, and integrate contributions from a variety of resources (people, tools, organizations).
• Must have an active Top Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance and must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
• This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS or PhD in electrical engineering, math, or physics
• Active TOP SECRET/SCI Security Clearance
• Familiarity with joint and coalition interoperability of EW systems.
• Demonstrated experience conveying complex EW capability and mission architecture issues into concise executive briefings and technical memoranda on research options.
• Experience designing, modeling, and simulating RF and EW technologies, as well as planning and executing mission engineering, test and evaluation (T&E), and operational experimentation activities.
• Ability to develop high-fidelity RF/EW scenarios, spectrum occupancy models, and platform-level trade studies.
• Experience with modeling and simulation tools such as STK (Systems Tool Kit), MATLAB/Simulink, ANSYS HFSS, CST Microwave Studio, COMSOL Multiphysics, RF Toolbox, or Simulink-based EW models.
• Proficiency in Python, MATLAB, C/C++, and/or CUDA for signal processing and algorithm development.
• Familiarity with joint and coalition interoperability of EW systems.
• Experience with DoD acquisition lifecycle (Milestone decisions, OT&E, RDT&E) and budgetary guidance.
• Hands on experience designing, modeling and simulation, prototyping and testing RF and EW technologies
• Experience with machine learning for RF classification, deep learning for signal detection, data fusion for adaptive threat detection, spectrum management, and autonomous jamming.
• Experience with cyber EW coupling, software defined radios (SDR), jamming waveforms, electronic attack (EA), electronic protection (EP).
• Experience developing and testing SDR waveforms using GNU Radio, Open Source 5G, or similar platforms.
• Proficiency in designing, simulating, and validating EA waveforms (e.g., noise, repeater, deceptive) across L , S , C , and X band frequencies.
• Hands on experience with EP techniques such as frequency hopping, adaptive nulling, and low probability of intercept (LPI) waveforms.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): Top Secret This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s): Top Secret/SCI

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$147,200 - $184,000 - $220,800 Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

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