Senior Electrical Engineer

_{29th May, 2026}

Role: Senior Electrical Engineer.
Location: Chantilly, VA (100% onsite).
 
Clearance: Secret
Salary: $180K - $225K
 
Job Description:
As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you will work on high-performance RF systems used for Radar and Flight Termination System (FTS).  
Based on system requirements, you will collaborate with a multidisciplinary engineering team of RF Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, and Software Engineers to derive solutions, perform verification testing, and troubleshoot any issues. 
A successful candidate will solve complex problems, complete hardware and firmware designs, and perform hands-on testing.
 
Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, with 8+ years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering, with 5+ years of related experience. 
• Experience with Schematic Capture and Layout of complex mixed signal designs.
• HDI Layout experience, understanding the complexities and tradeoffs of complex high-density layouts.
• +5 years hardware development experience using FPGAs, microprocessors, high speed digital circuits in embedded designs.
• In-depth knowledge of engineering standards, theories, concepts, and techniques relevant to electrical and electronic systems built to MIL-STD-461F and above.
• Experience generating Basis of Estimates (BOE) to generate Scope and Pricing for new work.
• Experience developing and publishing technical content from concept to completion, including test procedures, test reports, engineering analyses, white papers, operations/user manuals, and design review materials, in collaboration with engineers, technicians, and stakeholders. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders. 
• Strong team player with the ability to work independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience in mentoring junior engineers to complete tasks. 

• Proficiency in electronic circuit analysis and design applications, such as: 
• Altium or  Siemens/Mentor Graphics PADS
• MATLAB 
• SPICE/PSPICE 
• Keysight Pathwave/Genesys/ADS, AWR Microwave Office, or Ansys HFSS 
• ModelSim,  Vivado, Vitis or Quartus 
• Experience in Radio Frequency (RF) circuit modeling, analysis, and design, and/or Digital Signal Processing (DSP). 
• 5+ years of experience with FPGA designs, VHDL, and/or Verilog.
• Experience with FPGA soft CPU cores similar to AMD Microblaze or Altera Nios II.
• Experience with designing/debugging high-speed interfaces (1GE, PCIe, and DDRx).
• Experience with hardware & software codesign in Zynq UltraScape+ RFSoCs.
• PCB design experience, including mixed-signal circuitry. 
• Experience with antenna theory, design, and measurement techniques. 
• Familiarity with Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Test (DFT). 
• Coursework or direct experience with radar systems, including: 
• Radar system design and analysis 
• Radar signal processing and simulation 
• Understanding of basic RF and microwave engineering principles, including: 
• Transmission lines and matching networks 
• Filter design and analysis 
• Harmonic balance and non-linear effects 
• Cascaded noise figure and signal-to-noise analyses 
• Radio Frequency/Electromagnetic Interference (RFI/EMI) effects and mitigation techniques 
• Time- and frequency-domain relationships and analysis techniques 
• Active US Government DoD Secret Security Clearance or higher.