Lead Radar Instrument Engineer

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own the system design for the radar electronics, signal processing chain, and antenna system at the vehicle level for both sounder and radiometer modes, including instrument performance, power, and mass budgets, link…
• Lead waveform trade studies in collaboration with the science partners, implement the waveforms and baseline algorithms they develop, and co-design with the science team to ensure the instrument meets science adequacy…
• Lead the hardware development, including prototype development and validation at the brass board level ahead of flight designs
• Define the instrument calibration scheme for both radar and radiometer modes
• Coordinate hardware development across RF, digital, power, and mechanical disciplines, along with firmware and software development
• Lead instrument qualification and acceptance testing, integration into the spacecraft, and terrestrial analog flight testing, including test integration and post-flight data review
• Perform spectrum licensing and frequency coordination for instrument operation and testing and support instrument calibration and on-orbit commissioning

Job requirements

• 7+ years of experience in electrical hardware development, such as software defined radios, radar transceivers, or sophisticated digital processors
• Demonstrated ability to develop and manage radar system performance budgets
• Experience with analysis and modeling of radar returns and radar performance
• Experience implementing radio or radar transceivers as software-defined radios
• Field testing, flight testing, or spaceflight experience with radio or radar transceivers
• Deep expertise in one or more of the following: Implementation of signal processing chains in FPGA and/or GPU processing
• Design of mixed-signal and digital PCBs, such as software-defined radios or board-level FPGA designs
• RF circuit design, including power amplifiers, low-noise amplifiers, and filters