Senior RF Communications Engineer
$140,000-$175,000 Base Salary
Signing Bonus • Equity • Relocation Assistance
Hybrid | Huntsville, AL | Full-Time | 9/80 Schedule
This isn't another defense contractor job.
Join a mission-focused engineering team developing next-generation RF communications and Electronic Warfare capabilities for national defense. Work hands-on across SDR, radar, resilient networking, secure communications, and RF sensing technologies while contributing directly to systems from design through integration, testing, and field demonstration.
Why experienced engineers choose Secmation
- Spend your timebuilding, integrating, and testing advanced RF systems.
- Contribute to system development from early design through field deployment.
- Work directly with experienced engineers, DoD customers, and mission users.
- Solve challenging RF, Electronic Warfare, SDR, radar, and secure communications problems.
- Collaborate with a small, highly technical team where every engineer has real impact.
- Build technology designed to transition into operational use.
What you'll build and contribute
Contribute directly to the development of advanced RF technologies that support critical defense missions. This is a highly hands-on individual-contributor role focused on design, implementation, modeling, integration, HWIL testing, field demonstration, validation, and operational deployment. The position does not carry technical team-lead responsibilities.
You'll work across:
- Electronic Warfare capabilities and applications, with opportunities to support Electronic Attack, Electronic Support, Electronic Protection, and countermeasure development.
- Software Defined Radio solutions, including software, embedded processing, and integration with firmware-based radio platforms and secure embedded communications systems.
- Tactical RF communications, SATCOM, resilient networking, radar, and RF sensing technologies.
- AI-enabled RF analysis, mission systems, and adaptive signal-processing capabilities as part of the broader program environment.
- RF algorithm development, communications-system modeling, mission simulation, and scenario development using MATLAB, Python, or comparable tools.
- System integration, hardware-in-the-loop testing, field testing, validation, and live customer demonstrations.
- Close collaboration with RF, software, hardware, cybersecurity, and systems engineers across the program.
What we're looking for
- U.S. citizenship and an active DoD Security Clearance.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline.
- 8+ years of relevant experience in RF systems, communications engineering, SDR, radar, Electronic Warfare, or a related field.
- Hands-on experience designing, implementing, analyzing, orvalidating military or defense-related RF communications systems.
- Experience with SDR frameworks and platforms such as GNU Radio, REDHAWK, USRP/UHD, Epiq, or comparable technologies.
- Experience using MATLAB, Python, or comparable tools for RF modeling, simulation, algorithm development, or data analysis.
- Experience with C/C++ for embedded or systems-level applications.
- Experience supporting system integration, HWIL testing, mission simulation, field testing, validation, or customer demonstrations.
