THE OPPORTUNITY
The Principal Investigator - R&D Engineering  position reports to the Director of R&D within the Research & Development team.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Technical management of R&D projects and programs to include:
• Responsibility for overall system design and requirement specification.
• Setting and tracking development schedules and tasks.
• Overseeing paper design, simulation, software, FPGA, and testing efforts.
• Customer-facing engagement and technical material preparation where needed.
• Reporting to management as required for strategic planning and assessment.
• Participate in R&D business development and capture efforts to include:
• Whitepaper and proposal preparation.
• Understand current technology and pitch future enhancements and strategies.
• Communicate (telephone/email/in-person) engagement with government and industry.
• Work collaboratively within the senior R&D team on the following:
• Executing larger, team-wide projects.
• Setting a comprehensive team-wide technology portfolio and pipeline.
• As necessary, perform other related duties of which the above are representative.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• When necessary, supervise a team of junior or senior engineers involved in a given project or R&D program for which the Principal Engineer is responsible.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• M.S. or Ph.D. in a relevant technology field (i.e., wireless communications, signal processing, statistics, optimization, networking, RF design, etc.).
• 10 years of experience in the design and development of wireless systems.
• 5 years of experience in technical project leadership (i.e., principal investigator).
• Participation in the complete technology development cycle: design to field testing.
• Simulation and prototyping software: C/C , MATLAB, Python, etc.
• RF propagation, channel modeling, digital communication.
• Wireless ad-hoc mesh networking, medium access, and routing algorithms.
• Signal processing algorithms, MIMO, OFDM, beam-nulling, etc.
• Cognitive radio, congested and contested spectrum, interference mitigation.
• RF sensing, signal detection, and classification, etc.
• Technical writing, proposal preparation, and technical presentation.
• NOTE - Must be a U.S. Citizen due to clients under U.S. government contracts.
• Employment is contingent upon the successful clearance of a background check.
• TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS - Infrequent travel to support customer interactions or test and demonstration events.