RF Design Engineer Senior Staff - level 5

You will be the Senior Staff RF Engineer / Senior Staff Hardware (HW) Design Engineer for the Simulation & System Labs (SSL) F-35 HW Design group. This team is responsible for developing and integrating the Simulation HW Lab environments for the F-35 customers. This includes the Man-In-The-Loop and Hardware-In-The-Loop Lab applications for both F-35 and Advanced Development Programs(ADP) System Integration Lab projects.

What You Will Be Doing:
As the Senior Staff RF & HW Design Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, procuring, testing, and installing hardware electronic equipment for Man-In-The-Loop and Hardware-In-The-Loop Lab applications for the F-35 and ADP projects. Your responsibilities will include:
Providing technical leadership for various System Integration lab projects.
Leading new proposals, creating Basis of Estimate (BOE)
Performing systems requirements analysis
Providing project EVMS status/coordination
Leading customer/product reviews
Performing power calculations
Performing RF Link Budget
Good understanding of RF over Fiber
Test and integrate RF and electrical systems
Leading electrical design of Lab infrastructure including Facility Power Distribution, Aircraft PME Interfaces, Simulation Cockpits, Image Generators, I/O systems, Audio/Visual equipment, Data Recording, Host Computer assemblies, and Network equipment.
Designing interconnect interfaces for Fiber Channel, 1394 I/F, 1553 I/F, Ethernet, Discrete, and Serial Buses.
Creating electrical wiring design, electrical schematic capture, electrical 2D drawings.
Documenting electronic parts lists definition, configuration management, procurement
Leading Vendor Coordination
Working as the HW fabrication liaison
Leading HW checkout and equipment troubleshooting
Leading Lab HW integration and delivering

This position is in Fort Worth, TX Discover Fort Worth.

You will need to be a US Citizen, and be able to obtain and maintain a US DoD SECRET clearance, to support this government contract, as well as successfully pass a drug and background check, in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Bachelors degree in Engineering discipline (Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology, or Computer Engineering preferred)

Experience with one of the following:
- Radar
- Antennae
- Datalink
- Radio Frequency Equipment (RFE)
- Sat Com MS OFFICE, MS VISIO, Experience in Electronics equipment troubleshooting.
Experience with Electronics design, assembly, and checkout.
Experience with interpretation/development of Electrical Wiring Diagrams/Schematics and Parts Lists.
Experience with proposals, BOE, ROM
EVMS basic knowledge and experiences
Experience with requirements analysis
Experience with RF Link Budget
Experience with Power calculations
Experience with RF over Fiber
Experience with RF related integration & test