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Senior RF Mission Systems Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike, Active Clearance

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)💼 Full-time💰 $166,000–$166,000🗓 2026-09-15 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, integrate, and validate autonomous air systems and mission payloads (Radar, EO/IR, RF, EW) to deliver warfighter outcomes.

Role type

Senior RF Mission Systems Engineer (Air Dominance & Strike)

Builds

End-to-end autonomous air systems and mission-ized payloads

Domain

Defense / Aerospace / RF / Sensors / Autonomous Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

RF systems expertise, payload integration, physics-based modeling, system trade-off analysis, subcontractor management, mission-level modeling

Preferred skills

Missile design & integration, advanced analytical toolchains (MATLAB, Python, C++, COMSOL, Ansys), secure tactical data links, EO/IR/ESM/EW/LIDAR expertise

Technologies

Radar, EO/IR, RF, EW, LIDAR, MATLAB, Python, C++, COMSOL, Ansys

Responsibilities

Conduct trades for communications, sensing, and effector systems; Architect autonomous multi-function payload concepts; Adapt physics-based and effects-based models; Validate system performance with test engineers; Integrate high-performance systems; Manage subcontractors and internal teams; Communicate results internally and externally

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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