Required Experience • Typically requires a Bachelors, Masters or PhD in engineering or a related technical field as well as eleven or more years of progressively complex engineering experience. May substitute equivalent experience in lieu of education. • RF communications system or subsystem development for spacecraft, aerospace, defense, or other high-reliability applications. • RF and electromagnetic design and analysis, including communications architectures, link budgets, frequency planning, modulation, coding, antennas, transmitters, receivers, amplifiers, filters, and interference performance. • EMI/EMC design, analysis, requirements, verification, and testing, including emissions and susceptibility, shielding, filtering, grounding, bonding, cable coupling, and antenna interactions. • Technical leadership of multidisciplinary teams through design, manufacturing, integration, verification, and test. • Experience with requirements, technical reviews, configuration management, engineering documentation, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and nonconformance resolution. • Experience overseeing RF, antenna, EMI/EMC, electromagnetic-effects, environmental, or flight-hardware testing, including use of applicable RF and electromagnetic test equipment. • Desirable Experience • Spacecraft communications systems, constellations, hosted payloads, multi-satellite missions, or S-, X-, Ku-, or Ka-band systems. • Space communications standards and interfaces, including CCSDS, SpaceWire, Ethernet, and serial interfaces. • Spacecraft antenna systems, software-defined radios, digital communications, software-defined waveforms, or FPGA-based signal processing. • Spacecraft environmental effects and qualification testing, including thermal vacuum, vibration, shock, EMI/EMC, radiation, electrostatic discharge, and plasma effects. • NASA, DoD, commercial space, or industry standards and customer or government technical reviews. • Must be customer focused and able to work on a self-initiated basis or in a team environment and able to work extended hours and travel as required. • Active DoD Secret Clearance is required. Desired Skills • RF, electromagnetic, and antenna modeling tools, such as Keysight ADS, AWR Microwave Office, HFSS, CST Studio Suite, FEKO, or similar. • MATLAB/Simulink, Python, or similar tools for modeling, analysis, data processing, and test automation. • RF and EMI/EMC test methods and equipment, including network and spectrum analyzers, signal generators, power meters, and noise-figure systems. • RF circuit, printed circuit board, harness, cable, waveguide, connector, filter, shielding, grounding, and bonding design for high-reliability or space applications. • Strong technical leadership, communication, planning, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills. • Ability to represent the organization as a technical contact and work effectively with customers, government representatives, suppliers, and senior leadership.