# Senior Fire Control Systems & Signal Processing Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $107,900.00 - $195,050.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Defence & Intelligence

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## Description

Leidos Defense provides a diverse portfolio of systems, solutions, and services covering land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace for customers worldwide. As a Senior Fire Control Systems & Signal Processing Engineer, you will support the development of next-generation hypersonic interceptors, missile defense systems, and air defense effectors.

**Primary Responsibilities:**

- Develop advanced signal processing algorithms for fire control, guidance, and communications in high-noise, contested environments

- Design and analyze missile command uplink and telemetry downlink subsystems, including interfaces to ground-based fire control radars and engagement control stations

- Support Integrated Fire Control (IFC) system design and interface definition with ground, naval, and joint systems

- Integrate end-to-end mission data flows, including mission data loads, telemetry, health/status reporting, and command and control interfaces

- Perform link budget analyses for dynamic flight conditions

- Conduct electromagnetic modeling and simulation of antenna performance and RF propagation

- Integrate models and algorithms within mission-level simulations and digital engineering environments

- Collaborate across disciplines to translate requirements into executable designs

- Support concept development, trade studies, technical proposals, and customer briefings

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, applied mathematics, physics, or related field with 8+ years' experience (or master's with 6+)

- Experience in signal processing, RF systems, communications, or fire control systems engineering

- Proficiency in one or more of: MATLAB, Python, C/C++

- Experience developing algorithms for tracking, communications, or sensor data processing

- Understanding of RF fundamentals, including propagation, antennas, and link analysis

- Experience in a DoD, defense contractor, or national security environment

- Active Secret clearance required

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Master's or Ph.D. with emphasis in electromagnetics, communications, or DSP

- 8+ years supporting missile defense, hypersonic weapons, or reentry systems

- Familiarity with tactical datalinks for sensor-to-shooter timelines against hypersonic threats

- Direct experience with IFC systems, data links, and next-generation air and missile defense sensors

- Experience designing missile uplink/downlink subsystems for ground-radar-cued engagements

- Expertise in EM simulation tools

- Experience developing algorithms such as Kalman filters, adaptive beamforming, or spectral estimation

- Link budget analyses for hypersonic systems, including plasma-induced attenuation

- Hands-on SDR, FPGA (VHDL/Verilog), or embedded RF experience

- Familiarity with MOSA and open architecture standards

- Experience with digital engineering or MBSE environments

- Active Top Secret (TS) clearance

**Pay Range:** $107,900.00 - $195,050.00

## Skills

### Required
- signal processing
- RF systems
- communications
- fire control systems engineering
- MATLAB
- Python
- C/C++
- algorithm development
- RF fundamentals
- link analysis

### Nice to have
- electromagnetics
- DSP
- missile defense
- hypersonic weapons
- reentry systems
- tactical datalinks
- IFC systems
- data links
- air and missile defense sensors
- EM simulation tools
- Kalman filters
- adaptive beamforming
- spectral estimation
- plasma-induced attenuation
- SDR
- FPGA
- embedded RF
- MOSA
- open architecture standards
- digital engineering
- MBSE environments

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