Senior RF Communications Engineer

Job overview

The Senior RF Communications Engineer role is hybrid, with the listing identifying Huntsville, AL as the work location; compensation is $140,000–$175,000 per year. Secmation’s engineering team develops RF communications and electronic warfare capabilities for national defense missions. This hands-on individual-contributor role develops and evaluates RF communications systems for challenged or contested environments. It contributes across design, modeling, implementation, integration, testing, field demonstrations, validation, and operational deployment, working with RF, software, hardware, cybersecurity, and systems engineers.

What you'll do

• Develop RF communications systems and capabilities
• work on waveforms, signal processing, software-defined radio implementation, and system integration
• contribute to modeling, hardware-in-the-loop testing, field testing, validation, and customer demonstrations
• support work across electronic warfare, tactical RF communications, SATCOM, resilient networking, radar, RF sensing, and AI-enabled RF analysis as program needs allow
• collaborate with engineering disciplines and customers.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior rf communications engineer

hybrid

huntsville al

secmation

electronic warfare

software-defined radio

rf systems

signal processing

satcom

resilient networking

radar

9/80 schedule

$140k–$175k/year

secret clearance

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Signing bonus, equity, and relocation assistance.

Why this role

Hybrid role; 9/80 schedule. Requires U.S. citizenship, active DoD Secret clearance with ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI, a relevant bachelor’s degree, and 8+ years of relevant experience. Signing bonus, equity, and relocation assistance are listed. No technical team-lead responsibilities.

About the employer

Secmation is hiring for this role. Industry: Engineering Services. Sector: 54.