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Radar Moving Target Indication Engineer

Array Labs
Palo Alto, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 8/5/2025 CLOSED ON 12/16/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Radar Moving Target Indication Engineer position at Array Labs?

Array Labs designs, builds and operates the world’s most advanced radar satellites – including the first satellites specifically designed for multistatic operation – enabling powerful new capabilities, including single-pass 3D imagery collection and real-time moving target indication radars.


We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Radar Engineer with Moving Target Indication (MTI) experience to join our team. The ideal candidate will play a critical role in developing innovative solutions for space-based AMTI and GMTI radar systems. This position requires expertise in radar signal processing, system design, and performance analysis to  support advanced radar applications.


Reponsibilities
  • Design and prototype MTI algorithms, taking advantage of our unique multistatic configuration
  • Productionize radar system architectures for space-based MTI applications, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability
  • Analyze radar system performance metrics such as detection probability, false alarm rates, clutter suppression, and tracking accuracy
  • Develop and utilize simulation tools to model radar system behavior and validate design choices
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams, including software engineers,  hardware engineers, and program managers, to ensure successful system  integration and deployment
  • Prepare technical reports, presentations, and documentation to communicate findings and recommendations to stakeholders


Basic qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
  • Experience with radar system modeling and simulation
  • Proficiency in Python, C/C , or MATLAB
  • Excellent teamwork and communication skills
  • Learn new concepts rapidly, completely, and in a self-directed manner
  • High levels of self-motivation and personal accountability
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment under significant time constraints
  • Must currently hold or be able to maintain a U.S Department of Defense (DoD) Secret level security clearance


Preferred skills and experience
  • Master’s or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or a related field
  • 5 years of experience in radar systems engineering, with a focus on moving target detection and indication
  • Strong knowledge of MTI principles, including Doppler processing, clutter suppression, space-time adaptive processing (STAP)
  • Experience with GMTI, AMTI, and/or moving target detection
  • Experience with bistatic and/or multistatic radar systems
  • Experience with military or defense radar systems


Citizenship requirements
  • U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions
  • To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must  be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected  individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the  required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State


Equal Opportunity Employer
  • Array Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made on the basis of merit, competence, and job qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by gender, color, race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender identity, veteran status, disability status, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status



Interview Process

We will conduct three interviews via Zoom; the typical process takes around 2-4 weeks to complete from start to finish.


Hiring and Compensation Strategy

Our hiring and compensation strategy is simple:


1) find uncommonly good people

2) pay them uncommonly well


You can anticipate competitive pay, with high flexibility between salary and equity-based compensation.


Why you should join Array Labs

Array Labs is launching a constellation of satellites to create the first high-resolution, real-time, three-dimensional model of Earth. Our next-generation satellite technology will offer image quality 60x greater than traditional techniques, profoundly expanding humanity’s ability to understand and respond to events on a global scale.


In forging an affordable, accessible, accurate representation of Earth, our work has the potential to transform the face of dozens of fields, including autonomy, telecommunications, disaster relief, gaming, climate science, defense and construction.

Salary : $150,000 - $400,000

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