RF Systems Engineer
Johns Hopkins APL · Laurel, MD · Electrical Engineering
About this role
Johns Hopkins APL is hiring a mid-level Systems Engineer in the operations function based in Laurel, MD. The posting calls out experience with Python, TypeScript, Data Structures and roughly 3+ years of relevant work. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent.
- Role
- Systems Engineer
- Function
- operations
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Location
- Laurel, MD
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Department
- Electrical Engineering
- Posted
- Apr 10, 2025
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Job description
from Johns Hopkins APL careersAre you interested in contributing to the design and assessment of RF systems critical to our national defense?
Do you have a passion for problem solving, creative thinking, and algorithm development?
If so, we're looking for someone like you to join our team at APL.
We are seeking a RF Systems Engineer to help us model, evaluate and design cutting edge RF seekers and other sensors including: RF transmitters, receivers and apertures; propagation effects; radar cross sections; synthetic RF scenes; range-Doppler maps; and RF signal processing and detection algorithms. The systems evaluated and developed at APL are vital to maintaining the U.S. Department of Defense’s technological advantage over our nation’s adversaries. You'll be joining our hardworking, deeply knowledgeable team of engineers dedicated to developing innovative RF systems for employment in complex future battle spaces.
As a RF Systems Engineer...
- Your primary responsibility will be to model and analyze RF seekers and systems for advanced weapons, including air-breathing and boost-glide hypersonic weapons.
- You will collaborate with a team of highly skilled engineers and scientists, as a thought leader, to innovate and drive system performance forward, and to provide ideas that elevate our group’s level of performance and expertise in our role of trusted advisor to the government.