What are the responsibilities and job description for the NAVWAR Engineer I position at Canvas II, LLC.?
NAVWAR Engineer 1
Canvas, Inc. is hiring for a NAVWAR Engineer supporting the Joint Navigation Warfare Center (JNWC) contract. This position empowers the Department of Defense’s navigation warfare (NAVWAR) mission ensuring positioning, navigation and timing superiority.
The mission is to provide combatant commanders and joint force commanders with subject matter expertise on planning and conducting NAVWAR by providing knowledge of friendly and enemy NAVWAR Order of Battle and PNT-related successes and threats.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Required:
The mission is to provide combatant commanders and joint force commanders with subject matter expertise on planning and conducting NAVWAR by providing knowledge of friendly and enemy NAVWAR Order of Battle and PNT-related successes and threats.
Responsibilities:
- Modeling and Simulation provides executive-level insight to NAVWAR engineering support.
- Provide research and development of multi-function small form factor payloads for completing NAVWAR-based missions.
- Develop and analyze models of novel algorithmic concepts to produce distributed electronic sensing effects for NAVWAR payloads.
- Utilize EW signal processing algorithms that enable threat detection and identification for employing countermeasures.
- Develop systems to support GPS system hardening to prevent NAVWAR effects on blue force systems
- Develop RF hardware and software solutions for integrating EW, Comms, and Radar missions into a small form factor payload.
- Investigate heterogeneous sensing concepts across different platforms (i.e. manned and unmanned, high altitude ISR, ALE, etc.). Investigate sensing approaches with passive modes.
- Design and implement testing of RF and other hardware portions of software defined radio frameworks
- Reverse engineer existing NAVWAR signal processing solutions
- Synthesize and allocate system requirements, and derive requirements to ensure the system architecture is fully defined, understood, and compliant to mission needs
- Support development and implementation of client requirements for RF solutions including services, products, technologies and capabilities which encompass airborne mission environments.
- Performs Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) testing on systems that can be impacted by denial/deception of PNT/GPS
- Support technical reviews of vendor hardware and software products and deliverables, interface development and development of software algorithms and models for simulation.
- Research of the state-of-the-art signal processing algorithms.
- Work with customers (both internal and external to JNWC) to help integrate solutions into a wide variety of applications and use cases
- Debug, test, and validate our capabilities using both unit tests as well as scenarios reported by the JNWC or JNWC Customers
Qualifications:
Required:
- Security Clearance: Must have an active secret clearance
- Citizenship: Must be a U.S. citizen
- Experience: 3-7 years of experience in Electrical, Mechanical, RF Engineering, or Data Science
- Education: Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) in an Engineering field (Electrical, Mechanical, RF) or Data Science
- Technical Foundation: A strong foundation in technical principles and data-driven methodologies
- Proven Track Record: A proven track record of applying technical expertise to solve complex engineering problems and drive data-driven insight
Desired:
- Professional Engineer License (PE) for senior level
- MS Degree
Benefits:
Employee Discounts, Vacation & Paid Time Off, Health InsuranceSalary : $50,808 - $71,704