Canvas
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NAVWAR Engineer I

Location
Kirtland AFB, NM
Listed
Today

Responsibilities

  • Modeling and Simulation provides executive-level insight to NAVWAR engineering support.
  • Provide research and development of multi-function small form factor payloads for completing NAVWAR-based missions.
  • Develop and analyze models of novel algorithmic concepts to produce distributed electronic sensing effects for NAVWAR payloads.
  • Utilize EW signal processing algorithms that enable threat detection and identification for employing countermeasures.
  • Develop systems to support GPS system hardening to prevent NAVWAR effects on blue force systems
  • 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 NAVWAR 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.
  • Performs Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) testing on systems that can be impacted by denial/deception of PNT/GPS
  • 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 JNWC) to help integrate 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 the JNWC or JNWC Customers

Qualifications

Required

  • Security Clearance: Must have an active secret clearance
  • Citizenship: Must be a U.S. citizen
  • Experience: 3-7 years of experience in Electrical, Mechanical, RF Engineering, or Data Science
  • Education: Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in an Engineering field (Electrical, Mechanical, RF) or Data Science
  • Technical Foundation: A strong foundation in technical principles and data-driven methodologies
  • Proven Track Record: A proven track record of applying technical expertise to solve complex engineering problems and drive data-driven insight

Desired

  • Professional Engineer License (PE) for senior level
  • MS Degree
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From Canvas's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 14, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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