RF Electrical Engineer with Security Clearance

RF Electrical Engineer Job Category: Engineering Time Type: Full time Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Secret Employee Type: Regular Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10% Type of Travel: Continental US CACI is looking for a new team member passionate about building the next generation techniques for detecting and geo-locating RF threats to autonomously react and deploy countermeasures. Our program''s mission is to improve capability to detect and defeat advanced threats while expanding maneuver envelope and autonomous real-time adaptation to a changing electromagnetic and tactical environment. What You''ll Get to Do: * • Provide research and development of multi-function small form factor payloads for completing EW, Comms, and Radar missions. * • Develop and analyze models of novel algorithmic concepts to produce distributed electronic sensing effects for Army aviation payloads. * • Utilize EW signal processing algorithms that enable threat detection and identification for employing countermeasures. * • Develop RF hardware and software solutions for integrating EW, Comms, and Radar missions into a small form factor payload. * • Investigate heterogeneous sensing concepts across different platforms (i.e. manned and unmanned, high altitude ISR, ALE, etc.). Investigate sensing approaches with passive modes. * • Design and implement testing of RF and other hardware portions of software defined radio frameworks * • Reverse engineer existing RF signal processing solutions * • Synthesize and allocate system requirements, and derive requirements to ensure the system architecture is fully defined, understood, and compliant to mission needs * • Support development and implementation of client requirements for RF solutions including services, products, technologies and capabilities which encompass airborne mission environments. * • Support technical reviews of vendor hardware and software products and deliverables, interface development and development of software algorithms and models for simulation. * • Research of the state-of-the-art signal processing algorithms. * • Work with customers (both internal and external to CACI) to help integrate our solutions into a wide variety of applications and use cases * • Debug, test, and validate our capabilities using both unit tests as well as scenarios reported by our end users * • Travel to other CACI locations and/or customer sites in the US as necessary (travel requirement is typically 0 - 15%) You''ll Bring These Qualifications: * • A bachelor''s degree (or higher) in Electrical Engineering or equivalent technical degree. * • 5+ years related work experience. * • Strong understanding of RF fields, propagation, and concepts such as antenna design, free space loss, automatic gain control, noise figure, phase noise, oscillators/mixers. * • Experience with Software-Defined Radios (SDR) frameworks such as GNU Radio, Pothosware or LabVIEW * • Understanding of RF/EO/IR signal processing. * • Experience with various digital modulation schemes such as BPSK, QPSK, QAM, PCM/FM, APSK, OFDM, including spread spectrum * • Proficiency in Modeling and Simulation (i.e. Matlab). * • RF test, analysis, and evaluation experience with benchtop and/or handheld equipment (Signal Generators, Spectrum Analyzers, Oscilloscopes, Network Analyzers, etc.) * • Ability to understand RF/digital/analog systems. * • Proficiency with block and circuit-level diagrams for various electronic devices and systems. * • Ability to read and understand technical specifications, and create software-based implementations of the procedures and methods described therein * • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills * • Minimum Secret Clearance and the ability to obtain/maintain an US Government Clearance at the TS/SCI level. These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have: * A drive to continuously improve and refine existing capabilities alongside new development opportunities. * Ability to work with a distributed team and manage your time effectively across multiple, simultaneous projects. * Experience with Electronic Warfare techniques and systems. * Experience with circuit design and design software/CAD* C/C++/Python programming experience, or similar programming experience* Apply digital processing techniques to communication signals. Techniques include digital filtering, sample rate conversion, frequency/phase estimation, demodulation, carrier recovery, timing recovery, channel equalization, pulse shaping, and forward error correction. What We Can Offer You: - We''ve been named a Best Place to Work by the Washington Post. - Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. - We offer competitive benefits and learning and development opportunities. - We are mission-oriented and ever vigilant in aligning our solutions with the nation''s highest priorities. - For over 55 years, the principles of CACI''s unique, character-based culture have been the driving force behind our success. Company Overview: At CACI, you will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact by providing information solutions and services in support of national security missions and government transformation for Intelligence, Defense, and Federal Civilian customers. CACI is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Females/Minorities/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities. As a federal contractor, CACI is subject to any federal vaccine mandates or other customer vaccination requirements. All new hires are required to report their vaccination status.

Created: 2025-11-15