Secret-Cleared Air-to-Ground Radar Systems Engineer

PGS Worldwide is seeking Secret-Cleared Air-to-Ground Radar Systems Engineers in Baltimore, Maryland for one-year onsite contract-to-hire roles supporting a leading aerospace & defense company. These positions will support advanced radar systems and sensor capabilities, with emphasis on air-to-ground radar modes, system architecture, modeling, performance analysis, algorithm development, and technical leadership.

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related STEM discipline with 12+ years of relevant experience; or a master’s degree with 10+ years; or a PhD with 8+ years.

• Active U.S. Government Secret clearance required.

• Extensive experience with radar systems and RF sensor applications.

• Experience with air-to-ground radar modes and capabilities.

• Experience with radar system architecture, modeling, simulation, and performance analysis.

• Experience developing or analyzing radar algorithms.

• Experience with advanced radar processing techniques.

• Strong understanding of RF system behavior and radar phenomenology.

• Experience providing technical leadership on complex engineering efforts.

• U.S. citizenship required.

• Ability to obtain and maintain required Special Program Access.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR).

• Experience with Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR).

• Experience with Ground Moving Target Indicator/Tracking (GMTI/GMTT).

• Experience with precision targeting radar applications.

• Experience with weather radar or weather-detection capabilities.

• Experience with sea-surface or maritime radar applications.

• Experience developing radar system architectures and sensor concepts.

• Experience with radar modeling and simulation.

• Experience working directly with government or defense customers.

• Experience leading technical teams, studies, or engineering-development efforts.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and analyze advanced air-to-ground radar capabilities.

• Support radar system architecture, requirements, design, and performance analysis.

• Develop and evaluate radar algorithms supporting mission and sensor objectives.

• Model radar behavior and system performance across operational scenarios.

• Support development and analysis of SAR, ISAR, GMTI/GMTT, targeting, weather, and maritime radar modes.

• Perform technical trade studies and evaluate alternative radar approaches.

• Analyze sensor performance and identify opportunities for system improvement.

• Collaborate with hardware, software, algorithm, and systems-engineering teams.

• Support system integration, verification, validation, and test activities.

• Present technical findings, risks, and recommendations to engineering leadership and customers.

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to multidisciplinary engineering teams.

• Support customer engagements, technical reviews, and major program milestones.

Work Schedule / Shift

• 100% onsite in Baltimore, Maryland

• 9/80A schedule

Pay

• $115.52 per hour.

Job ID: 1809

Military veterans and transitioning military members are encouraged to apply to all PGS Worldwide positions. All of our jobs are military-friendly, and we work with leaders in Aerospace who rely on your military expertise to support mission-critical programs nationwide. As a Veteran Founded company, we know that the military has given you the skills and training you need to succeed in positions like this, and we want to support your success in the civilian sector however we can. We thank you for your service and humbly offer our own in return by helping you take your career to the next level.