NAVWAR Engineer

Job Title: NAVWAR Engineer

Job Category: Engineering

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Secret

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 25%

Type of Travel: Outside Continental US

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The Opportunity:
As a member of the CACI-Wexford group Special Operations and Asymmetric Solutions Group (SOAS) we are renowned for bringing the expertise of our motivated, innovative professionals to address customers’ most difficult challenges and requirements. Using our cutting-edge practices, tools, and technologies, CACI's SOAS offers a range of solutions to address customer needs. At CACI-Wexford you will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact by providing information solutions and services in support of national security missions and government transformation for Intelligence, Defense, and Federal Civilian customers. 
 

In support of the Joint Navigation Warfare Center (JNWC) contract, you will be a part of our team’s efforts to empower the Department of Defense’s navigation warfare (NAVWAR) mission ensuring positioning, navigation and timing superiority. Our 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. 

The ranges listed at the end of this job posting are CACI’s general guidelines. The specific/budgeted/target pay for this position is Novice 55,000 – 73,500 ; Intermediate 74,000 – 91,000 ; Advanced 92,000 – 110, 000



Responsibilities:

• Modeling and Simulation SME provides executive-level insight to NAVWAR engineering support.
• 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: 
• 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.
• From 3 to 10 Yrs. Relevant experience
• Must have prior leadership or management experience in higher-level roles
• BS in an engineering discipline or a related field.
• Must have an active interim secret clearance and be eligible to upgrade to TS/SCI Clearance.

Desire:

• Professional Engineer License (PE) for senior level
• MS Degree

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What You Can Expect:

 A culture of integrity.

At CACI, we place character and innovation at the center of everything we do. As a valued team member, you’ll be part of a high-performing group dedicated to our customer’s missions and driven by a higher purpose – to ensure the safety of our nation.

An environment of trust.

CACI values the unique contributions that every employee brings to our company and our customers - every day. You’ll have the autonomy to take the time you need through a unique flexible time off benefit and have access to robust learning resources to make your ambitions a reality.

A focus on continuous growth.

Together, we will advance our nation's most critical missions, build on our lengthy track record of business success, and find opportunities to break new ground — in your career and in our legacy.

Pay Range:

There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.

The proposed salary range for this position is:

$71,500 - $150,200