Job Description

Overview

i3 has an exciting opportunity for a RF Engineer to support the Naval Research Laboratory, Tactical Electronic Warfare Division. The TEWD's mission is to protect the warfighter from emerging threats by advancing electronic warfare (EW) through RDT&E of current and future technologies. The RF Engineer will design RF subsystems for threat simulators, as well as serve as a subject matter expert (SME) during the analysis of seekers.

Pay Range $130,000 - 225,000

The pay range for this position is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, geographic location, and any applicable laws.

Responsibilities

• Design, model, and verify RF and mixed signal subsystem in seekers for threat simulators.
• Support verification efforts for RF, analog, and digital hardware designs.
• Deriving and trading requirements with subsystem engineers and component designers.
• Perform analysis of emerging RF seeker threats and report findings to stakeholders.

Qualifications

Required:

• BS or MS degree in electrical engineering, physics, or related field.
• At least ten (10) years of experience.
• Experience with RF subsystem design in radar systems.
• Experience with radar waveforms such as Linear FM (LFM) chirps and BPSK.
• Experience with RF antennas and beamforming networks.
• Experience with digital signal processing in radar applications.
• RF test and evaluation experience using industry-standard RF laboratory equipment.
• Working knowledge of an EM simulation tool (HFSS, CST Studio, Sonnet, ADS, HSPICE, SI-Wave) and MATLAB.

Desired:

• Reverse engineering experience of RF subsystems.
• Experience with RF missile seekers; guidance, navigation, and control systems; target detection; and seeker decision logic.

Security Clearance:

• Active SECRET clearance
• Ability to maintain a TS/SCI clearance

About i3

Founded in 2007, Integration Innovation, Inc. (i3) is headquartered in Huntsville, AL, with additional offices in Orlando, FL, and the National Capital Region. We are a 100% team member-owned mid-tier integrator with over 800 employee-owners, and our culture speaks for itself: we've earned ten Best Places to Work® awards, driven by strong employee engagement, transparent leadership, and a genuine commitment to communication.

i3 team members operate at the leading edge of national defense across a broad range of technical disciplines, from systems and software engineering to modeling, simulation, and training solutions to cybersecurity, digital engineering, and enterprise IT. We also take products from prototype through production, bringing that same engineering rigor to manufacturing and delivering hardware at scale. For candidates, that means a rare opportunity: the innovation and mission focus of an engineering services company paired with the hands-on impact of building and delivering real solutions that benefit the Warfighter, all inside an employee-owned company where your contributions directly shape both the mission and your ownership stake in the business