Our Company

ARA is a C5ISR company that designs, manufactures, tests, and installs cutting edge antenna technologies to keep our joint forces secure, superior and safe. We create and deliver a vest array of products for both military and civilian applications that combine innovative discoveries from companies we’ve acquired, including SI2 Technologies and AQYR, whose technologies complement and enhance our trusted systems. Our capabilities span from Electronic Warfare and Military Communications to Radar and Satellite Systems. For more than 60 years, ARA has provided our military with unparalleled information, improved situational awareness, immediate threat detection and precision targeting.

From ideation to installation, ARA supplies unique antenna systems in both high-volume and smaller quantities to meet our customers’ needs and ensure success. Our US locations have fully staffed outdoor antenna test ranges, engineers, and on-site manufacturing lines and machine shops.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Digital Electrical Engineer who can significantly contribute to growth of our existing sensor, communication and ISR systems. To be successful in this position, candidates must be innovative, enjoy learning and expanding their knowledge base, thrive on meeting challenging performance requirements, and have good communication skills to determine customer needs and create winning proposals.

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Leverage cutting-edge SDR and DSP technologies to create novel designs for communication and sensor systems, addressing emerging customer requirements and enhancing U.S. warfighter capabilities. 
• Work individually and with systems team to develop and propose competitive solutions for customers that capture new business and achieve overall Company goals and objectives. 
• Evaluate system design requirements for existing and new contracts, identifying solutions and risks and supporting the Product Line manager in setting cost and schedule requirements. 
• Document system technical requirements and identify critical design, material, and manufacturing performance indicators to establish design control parameters. 
• Execute system, hardware, and software/firmware design tasks for communication and sensor systems to meet established technical requirements within cost and schedule constraints. 
• Validate designs and models via experimentation. Communicate designs and results to management and customer representatives. 
• Serve as Principal Investigator for research and development efforts, to include actively participating in technical business development, monitoring of project technical progress, updating project schedules, and overseeing project budget. Maintain communications with customers through regular reports and technical briefings, both in-person and electronic. 
• Supervise and mentor junior engineers to enable their personal and professional growth. 
• Maintain knowledge of the state-of-the-art SDR and DSP technologies 

Position Qualifications

Competency Statement(s)

• Adaptability - Adapts to change, open to new ideas and responsibilities.
• Communication - Ability to clearly communicate and interact with others.
• Decision Making - Able to reach a decision, takes thoughtful approach when considering options, seeks input from others, makes difficult decisions.
• Employee Management - Defines responsibilities, motivates employees, delegates well.
• Ethics - Honest, accountable, maintains confidentiality.
• Initiative - Ability to take on task before being asked.
• Leadership - Provides strong leadership, sets a good example, skilled decision maker, motivator, and encourager.
• Organized - Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.
• Quality - Strives to eliminate errors, accurate work is a priority, seeks opportunities to improve products/services.

Experience and Skills

• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
• A proven track record of solving complex RF, microwave, and DSP design challenges in the aerospace/defense industry. 
• Proven track record designing, testing, and optimizing electronics and software/firmware for defense communication and sensor systems. 
• Proficient at analyzing test results and relating them to design characteristics and manufacturing methods. 
• Experience transitioning design ideas to product offerings, including product maturation and design for manufacturability, is a plus. 
• Extensive digital hardware and software/firmware experience to include FPGAs, MCUs, and SoC devices and RF modules and their use in embedded, low-power systems and SDR platforms. Familiarity with Verilog and C programming and communications protocols such as BLE, I2C, and SPI is a plus. 
• Experience writing, winning, and successfully executing contracts and grants with the DoD and Defense Prime Contractors. Previous relationships with Defense Prime Contractor and DoD SMEs is a plus. 
• Team player with ability to influence and motivate others. 
• Experience managing small design teams is a plus. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to interface with internal and external stakeholders, document and present results, analyses, and design efforts.
• Ability to travel, as required, to prospective and existing customer and vender facilities, conferences, and trade shows. 

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with 5 years’ relevant experience, or M.S. degree with 15 years’ relevant experience

Antenna Research Associates, Inc. and its subsidiaries encourage diversity in the workplace; we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran