Principal Research Scientist Signal Processing

Date Posted:

Country:

United States of America

Location:

US-VA-ARLINGTON-Th St N BBN ARLINGTON

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen U.S. Person or Immigration Status Requirements:

Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Security Clearance Type:

DoD Clearance: Top Secret

Security Clearance Status:

Active and existing security clearance required on day 1

RTX BBN solves challenging problems of high importance to our customers in the Department of Defense the Intelligence Community and Industry by rapidly prototyping systems for sensing complex physical phenomena correlating them to events of interest and producing high-value actionable information from the sensed data. The team specializes in delivering networked sensor system solutions by combining a strong understanding of the underlying physics high-fidelity modeling simulation of complex signatures and propagation phenomenology deep expertise in signal processing EM and RF phenomenology and computer science proven capabilities in system development and mature tools to enable rapid design cycles from theory to demonstration. We are currently searching for a highly qualified Signal Processing Research Scientist to join our team in Arlington VA.

What You Will Do:

Statistical signal processing:

• Estimation techniques including Bayesian and non-Bayesian estimators performance measures such as bias and mean-square error and bounds on estimator performance such as the Cramer-Rao lower bound.
• Detection techniques including the Neyman-Pearson detection probabilities of detection and false alarm receiver operating curves etc.

Cyclostationary signal processing:

• CAF SCF SOF estimation.
• Computation of Cyclic Cumulants.
• Cyclic Feature Detection.

Adaptive signal processing:

• Temporal and space-time adaptive processing.
• Interference covariance estimation techniques including both structured and reduced-rank techniques.
• Wiener filtering and on-line adaptive techniques such as LMS and RLS.
• Kalman filtering particle filtering and multi-hypothesis tracking.
• Machine learning and optimization for optimal control.

RF propagation and signature modeling:

• Link budgets terrestrial and free-space propagation models multipath non-stationary propagation environments (Doppler spread) clock stability and phase noise and target kinematics.
• Antenna pattern estimation.
• Estimation of bistatic RCS.

Sensing:

• Sparse array processing beamforming direction finding filtering and tracking.
• Range-Doppler radar and synthetic aperture radar (SAR).
• Signal classification and recognition.

Physical-layer communications:

• Modulation techniques and tradeoffs channel estimation and tracking MIMO communications equalization forward error correction and decoding.
• LPX waveform design.
• Multi-user detection.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• M.S. in Electrical Engineering Mathematics or Physics plus 5 years of relevant experience or Ph.D. plus 3 years experience.
• Experience with signal processing including estimation detection etc.
• Experience with RF modeling and sensing.
• Active Top Secret government security clearance
  

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Position may require some overnight travel.
• Experience applying advanced methods theories and R&D techniques to solve difficult problems.
• Skillset to tackle research challenges proactively with minimal supervision and periodic check-ins with team leads.
• Experience leading small teams of technical contributors.
• Experience documenting plans and scientific findings with opportunities to present to government customers.

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Work Location: Onsite- Alrington VA
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The salary range for this role is 118300 USD - 224900 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer including but not limited to the role function and associated responsibilities a candidates work experience location education/training and key skills.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits including but not limited to medical dental vision life insurance short-term disability long-term disability 401(k) match flexible spending accounts flexible work schedules employee assistance program Employee Scholar Program parental leave paid time off and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including but not limited to individual performance business unit performance and/or the companys performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

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