Senior Radar Engineer
Last confirmed open Oct 26, 2026
Before you apply
- Secret clearance
- An active clearance is required to start.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Experience or training can stand in for the degree.
**Description**
SAIC is seeking a **Senior Radar Engineer** to join the STARS **FBM Planner** Software Development Team providing MDS Sensor modeling to support warfighter training and exercises.
This position will sit at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama.
**Primary Responsibilities:**
+ Perform radar systems analysis, deep dive customer noted issues through root cause identification and resolution, simplify tactical radar algorithms to representative effects that can function in real-time, and document results for technical briefings to end-users and project leadership.
+ Developing analysis tools through MATLAB / Python and helping to guide more junior team members to ensure a consistent framework/interoperability of developed analysis tools.
+ Working daily on-site at a government customer facility on a multi-contractor team and interacting regularly with industry partners and the government customer.
**Qualifications**
**Required Education:**
+ Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; four (4) years of experience considered in lieu of degree.
**Required Skills:**
+ Proficiency in Radar Systems, Analysis, and Design
+ Experience with reverse engineering
+ Software Tool Development experience
+ Ability to operate Hardware-in-the-Loop for Verification and Validation of Radar Models
+ Proficiency in OOP, preferably, JAVA
+ Ability to understand ADA Code
+ Experience with Git
+ Ability to maintain and review code
+ Strong written communication skills for the drafting of organizational proposal and instructional documents
+ Proficiency in AGILE development
**Required Clearance:**
+ Active Secret Security Clearance.
Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
REQNUMBER: 2617684
SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability
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