We have multiple openings for a Microwave/RF Engineer to apply commercial and in-house simulation tools for the analysis and design of advanced electromagnetic systems in support of national security missions. You will be responsible for using your engineering judgement and modeling experience for a wide variety of projects including high-power microwave, antenna design, Radio Frequency (RF) Electromagnetics, and radar modeling. These positions are in the Computational Electromagnetics Group of the Computational Engineering Division (CED), within the Engineering Directorate.
Depending on your assignment, these positions may offer a hybrid schedule, blending in-person and virtual presence. You may have the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week.
These positions will be filled at either level depending on your qualifications. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if you are selected at the higher level.
You will
- Provide electromagnetics knowledge to interdisciplinary teams, work under general supervision, assist in determining own tasks and milestones, consult on experimental design, analyze, and recommend solutions, using industry-standard modeling tools such as Ansys HFSS and FEKO, and run in-house simulation tools on world-leading supercomputers.
- Contribute subject matter electromagnetics (EM) knowledge to multidisciplinary teams.
- Develop computational tools and techniques for analyzing full-wave electromagnetics problems.
- Organize and analyze data from research, present results at technical meetings and national conferences, and publish novel research results in peer-reviewed literature.
- Provide engineering solutions for research projects with competing priorities, implement research concepts in a multidisciplinary team environment where commitments and deadlines are important to project success.
- Conduct research in high frequency electromagnetics, radio frequency circuits, or wireless technology to enable the development of new state-of-the-art systems for Laboratory-relevant applications.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Additional job responsibilities, at the SES.3 level
- Serve as a project leader for analysis and design projects.
- Balance management of multiple projects/tasks and priorities of customers to ensure deadlines are met.
- Perform advanced research in at least one of the following areas including computational electromagnetics, radar modeling, and RF propagation modeling.