LEAD COMPUTER SCIENTIST - PRINCIPAL COMPUTER SCIENTIST - PRINCIPAL ENGINEER - Signal Intelligence
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Who We Are:
Ongoing threats to national security require timely intelligence data, including signal intelligence obtained through electronic surveillance. Since the 1940s, SwRI has supported U.S. and friendly foreign governments, as well as commercial clients.
Objectives of this Role:
- Provide technical leadership/supervision in direct support to USG operations for communications and geolocation systems.
- Plan, coordinate, collaborate and assist in controlling the progress of project work in these technical areas to meet client objectives.
- Assist in creative, innovative solutions to support operations issues and modernizations through the application of advanced theory, algorithms, concepts, and practices in communications intelligence.
- Provide expertise in System Engineering and support for program development in emerging technology which can be applied to Collection and Operations
- Work on developing new areas of work with the Operations areas concerned with system/network performance..
Daily and Monthly Responsibilities:
- Leadership/Technical Supervision of system development for the processing of modern communications signals in the HF and VHF/UHF frequency ranges.
- Work with U.S. Government Operations to help gather information in the operation of the HFDF network.
- Plan, coordinate, and assist in controlling the progress of project work in various technical areas, in order to meet client objectives.
- Prepare and present research and test readiness reports to clients.
- Coordinate and prepare technical demonstrations to clients, working directly with the operators and acquisition offices.
- Support testing of patches and new baselines for operational systems.
- Attend technical and vendor symposiums and conferences with the local area.
Requirements:
- Requires a Bachelors, Masters or a PhD in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering
- Must have a current/active TS/SCI with full scope polygraph.
- 10-12 years: Required experience with with RF Systems and geolocation techniques, as well as the associated RF and Geolocation theory and collection techniques and challenges in the RF Spectrum. Experience with USG mission/operations related to HFDF operational systems.
- 10-12 years: Highly proficient at writing requirements, design documents, and test plans associated with the requirements. Assisting in the decomposition of the requirements to developers and developing use cases for testing. Reviewing materials and providing valuable input.
- 10-12 years: Excellent communicator, both written and verbal, with the ability to communicate at the level of non-technical and technical customers and teammates.
- 10-12 years: Highly proficient in requirements databases, project tracking tools such as Atlassian products, highly proficient in Microsoft products.
- A valid/clear driver's license is required.
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