Senior Rf Data Link Engineer

RTX RTX · Aerospace · tucson, AZ +1 · Engineering

Senior RF Data Link Engineer role at RTX, focusing on designing and testing wireless communication and data link systems for tactical missile programs. Requires experience in communications systems design, data link hardware development, algorithm development, and digital signal processing, with a strong emphasis on RF and electromagnetic theory. Security clearance is mandatory.

What you'd actually do

  1. Perform and/or evaluate concept and performance trade studies, link budget analyses and demonstrate developed capabilities for data link communication applications.
  2. Perform hardware and software Communication Architecture trade studies.
  3. Develop, prototype, and test data link models and communication signal processing algorithms in detailed high-fidelity simulations and support hardware implementation.
  4. Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to understand requirements, provide technical support, and manage program delivery schedules.
  5. Provide engineering support through participation in project design reviews, peer reviews, briefings to internal leadership and external customers for all phases of development tasks.

Skills

Required

  • MATLAB
  • SIMULINK
  • C/C++
  • Communication theory
  • Digital signal processing
  • Probability theory
  • Stochastic signal processing
  • RF and electromagnetic theory

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree in electrical or computer engineering
  • digital communications
  • communications systems design
  • data link hardware development
  • waveform algorithm development
  • system engineering of RF subsystems
  • PSK
  • FSK
  • OFDM
  • QAM
  • Phase noise
  • multipath
  • Doppler
  • Link budget and propagation modeling
  • RF transceiver and front-end design
  • antenna design parameters
  • fixed point algorithm simulations for VHDL verification
  • wireless fading model simulation
  • Layer 2 and above
  • designing for manufacturability
  • producibility
  • cost constraints
  • Group management skills
  • leadership skills
  • communication skills
  • problem-solving skills

What the JD emphasized

  • Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date
  • U.S. citizenship is required
  • Ability to obtain INTERIM U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date
  • Bachelors Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience
  • A minimum of five (5) years of experience in programming and / or simulation experience in MATLAB, SIMULINK, C/C++, or equivalent language.
  • Five (5) years of experience and / or coursework with two or more of the following categories: Communication theory, Digital signal processing, Probability theory, Stochastic signal processing, RF and electromagnetic theory