Aircraft Radar Engineer

Location: NAS Patuxent River, MD

Security Clearance Requirement: TS/SCI

Travel: 10%

What You’ll Do:

As the part-time Aircraft Radar Engineer, you will support the design, integration, testing, evaluation, and sustainment of airborne radar systems for naval aviation platforms. Performs requirements analysis, interface definition, technical reviews, performance assessment, troubleshooting, and verification activities related to radar and aircraft mission systems.

This position works in tandem with multidisciplinary engineering teams supporting avionics, software, hardware, integration, test, airworthiness, cybersecurity, logistics, and fleet support activities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the design, development, integration, test, and sustainment of airborne radar systems and associated avionics. 
• Analyze radar system requirements and interfaces and support allocation of requirements to hardware and software components. 
• Develop and review engineering documentation, including requirements, interface control documents, design specifications, verification plans, test procedures, and technical assessments. 
• Evaluate radar subsystem designs for technical adequacy, integration, maintainability, and compliance with program requirements. 
• Support technical reviews, including SRRs, PDRs, CDRs, TRRs, and configuration control boards. 
• Assess radar performance, including detection range, resolution, tracking, clutter and environmental effects, waveform behavior, antenna characteristics, signal processing, and EMI/EMC. 
• Support integration of radar systems with mission computers, displays, data buses, power, cooling, and other aircraft avionics. 
• Support laboratory, ground, and flight test planning and execution; analyze test data and assist with verification, validation, troubleshooting, and discrepancy resolution. 
• Investigate technical issues, perform root-cause analysis, and recommend corrective actions. 
• Coordinate with government, industry, fleet, and other technical stakeholders to resolve issues and support capability development. 
• Support risk management, configuration management, engineering investigations, and sustainment activities. 
• Ensure engineering products and activities comply with applicable airworthiness, systems engineering, safety, cybersecurity, spectrum, and program requirements.

This description outlines the general nature and scope of the role. Additional duties may be assigned as necessary.

Requirements

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience supporting the design, development, integration, test, or sustainment of radar, avionics, mission systems, or other complex airborne electronic systems.
• Experience with systems engineering activities such as requirements analysis, design reviews, interface management, verification planning, and discrepancy resolution.
• Experience supporting multidisciplinary engineering teams in an acquisition, development, or sustainment environment.
• Experience reviewing technical data, engineering documentation, and test results.
• Knowledge of airborne radar principles, avionics architectures, systems engineering processes, analog and digital electronics, RF systems, and signal processing.
• Ability to analyze technical information, troubleshoot system integration issues, interpret test data, and communicate engineering findings.
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision and contribute to multidisciplinary engineering teams.

 The Aircraft Radar Engineer must have working knowledge of several of the following:

• Radar system architecture and subsystem integration 
• Radar waveforms and signal processing 
• Antenna and RF subsystems 
• Receiver, exciter, and transmitter functionality 
• Radar interfaces with mission computers and displays 
• Avionics data buses and communication protocols 
• Embedded system integration 
• Verification and validation 
• Test planning and test data analysis 
• EMI/EMC and environmental integration 
• Reliability, maintainability, and supportability 
• Root-cause and corrective-action methodologies

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with maritime surveillance radar, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR), moving target indication (MTI), or other multimode radar applications. 
• Experience supporting Navy or DoD aviation systems, avionics modernization, or mission systems integration. 
• Experience with developmental or operational test, systems integration laboratories, or flight test. 
• Experience with requirements management tools such as DOORS or equivalent. 
• Experience with model-based systems engineering, digital engineering, configuration management, or technical baseline management. 
• Experience with failure analysis, reliability, maintainability, and supportability of fielded aviation systems.

ASEC is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodation in its services, activities, programs, and employment opportunities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and other applicable laws.

Security Clearance Requirement:

• This position requires U.S. citizenship and an active DoD Top Secret clearance. Selected candidate will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Who We Are:

ASEC offers meaningful, mission-driven work within a culture that supports your professional and personal growth. We partner with our government customers to deliver innovative solutions across engineering, information technology, training, and logistics. Above all, we are committed to doing what’s right for the Warfighter—plain and simple. Explore what makes ASEC different by visiting our website.

Why work at ASEC?

• 100% employee-owned company. Learn more about our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) here!
• Comprehensive benefits package, including 11 paid holidays, medical/dental/vision coverage, HSA/FSA options, disability insurance, and more!
• 401(k) with company match
• Tuition assistance for undergraduate and graduate education
• Veteran-friendly employer
• Thriving employee culture

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ASEC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, hire, train, compensate, and promote employees based on qualifications, merit, and business needs, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy or related conditions (including breastfeeding), or any other status protected by law.

ASEC also complies with all applicable pay transparency laws and will not discriminate against employees or applicants for inquiring about, discussing, or disclosing compensation.

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