Radar Systems Engineer
Job Description
Join Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland for an on-site role that emphasizes collaboration, mission impact, and career growth. You will contribute to fielding next-generation Navy radar, electro-optical/infrared, and electronic warfare systems as well as land-based sensor networks. This position offers a competitive salary range of $85,000 to $195,000 per year, complemented by a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your education, retirement, health, and work-life balance. Expect a culture that values teamwork, creative problem solving, and data-driven innovation as you analyze live sensor data and develop algorithms through modeling, simulation, data analysis tools, and machine learning.
Responsibilities
- Apply your technical skills creatively to identify and solve problems.
- Collaborate with teams of sensor engineers, software developers, combat system engineers, and physicists.
- Invent, explore, and use modeling and simulation capabilities, data analysis tools, and machine learning algorithms.
- Apply signal and data processing tools, including machine learning, to large data sets to develop novel algorithms.
- Investigate and address problems arising from emergent phenomenology.
Requirements
- A BS in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or equivalent technical discipline with some sensor systems engineering experience.
- Strong understanding of radars and/or physics-based phenomena affecting radar or communications systems.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Willingness to travel up to 5% of the time as needed.
- Ability to obtain an Interim Secret clearance by start date and ultimately a Secret clearance; eligibility requires U.S. citizenship.
Benefits
- Education assistance
- Retirement contributions
- Healthy work-life balance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Flexible spending accounts
- Training and development
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