{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"bbac3f4c562cdf22b0bbf64a","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/bbac3f4c562cdf22b0bbf64a","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/bbac3f4c562cdf22b0bbf64a","title":"RF Engineer","description":"BTS is seeking an RF Engineer to provide intelligence support, supporting the Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD) at Aberdeen Proving Ground\n\nWhat You'll Get to Do\n\nLead the design, development, and integration of custom radio and RF hardware supporting critical national security missions. You'll work across RF, digital, FPGA, and embedded systems to develop new communications capabilities, troubleshoot complex hardware, and rapidly prototype solutions for advanced mission requirements.\n\nMore About the Role\n\nAs a Radio Systems / RF Hardware Engineer, you'll provide hands-on engineering expertise across the full radio development lifecycle, from architecture and component selection through circuit design, FPGA integration, board bring-up, and RF characterization. You'll develop and integrate RF front ends, digital processing hardware, and embedded components while using laboratory test equipment to evaluate and troubleshoot system performance. You'll collaborate with embedded software, FPGA, cybersecurity, and systems engineering personnel to develop and mature custom radio capabilities for sophisticated operational environments.\n\nRequired Qualifications:\n\nActive TS/SCI security clearance.\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.\nExperience designing, developing, integrating, or troubleshooting RF communication systems or radio hardware.\nStrong understanding of RF fundamentals, including signal chains, filtering, amplification, frequency conversion, impedance matching, noise, and link budgets.\nExperience with analog/digital circuit design and PCB-level hardware development.\nFamiliarity with MATLAB/Simulink, Python, C/C++, or embedded Linux.\nExperience developing or integrating FPGA-based systems using Verilog, SystemVerilog, or VHDL.\nExperience integrating embedded processors, FPGAs, RF transceivers, ADCs/DACs, or similar devices.\nHands-on experience with RF and electronics test equipment such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, VNAs, signal generators, and logic analyzers.\nAbility to troubleshoot hardware at the component, board, and system levels.\n\nDesired Qualifications:\n\nExperience designing a radio or RF transceiver from the board/component level, not solely integrating commercial radios.\nExperience with software-defined radios, RF transceiver ICs, RF front ends, PLLs, mixers, LNAs, PAs, and filters.\nExperience implementing DSP functions in FPGA logic, including filtering, FFTs, modulation/demodulation, or digital up/down conversion.\nExperience with RF/mixed-signal PCB design, controlled impedance, grounding, shielding, signal integrity, and EMI/EMC considerations.\nExperience with RFSoC, SoC FPGA, high-speed ADC/DAC interfaces, or similar architectures.\nExperience with communications, unmanned systems, electronic warfare, SIGINT, radar, or other RF-intensive defense applications.\nExperience rapidly prototyping and debugging custom RF or embedded hardware.\n\nCompany Overview:\n\nBTS Software Solutions is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business who are community-focused innovators who transform ideas into technology to serve people. We recognize that innovation is only valuable when applied towards a needed solution. Technology has no value without the hard work to turn ideas into reality. Our roots are in helping save Soldiers’ lives through technology. We bring that ethos to serving our community. We create solutions that touch people's lives - products to communicate, to connect companies with customers, to stay informed, to save lives, and to enhance lives.\n\nWe have a small company persona with a large company ethos and capabilities; we create elegant solutions for complex problems that will enrich people’s lives. We offer one of the best benefits packages in the industry: Competitive health benefits package, PTO, 401K matching and vested from day one to name just a few of our benefits and perks.\n\nBTS Software Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.","company":"Btssoftwaresolutions","rawCompany":"btssoftwaresolutions","city":"Aberdeen","state":"MD","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-06T13:29:14.553Z","occupations":[{"code":"17-2072.00","title":"Electronics Engineers, Except Computer","slug":"electronics-engineers-except-computer"},{"code":"17-2061.00","title":"Computer Hardware Engineers","slug":"computer-hardware-engineers"},{"code":"17-2072.01","title":"Radio Frequency Identification Device Specialists","slug":"radio-frequency-identification-device-specialists"}],"industries":[{"code":"334220","title":"Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing","slug":"radio-and-television-broadcasting-and-wireless-communications-equipment-manufacturing"},{"code":"334290","title":"Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing","slug":"other-communications-equipment-manufacturing"},{"code":"334511","title":"Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing","slug":"search-detection-navigation-guidance-aeronautical-and-nautical-system-and-instrument-manufacturing"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"RF Engineer","description":"BTS is seeking an RF Engineer to provide intelligence support, supporting the Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD) at Aberdeen Proving Ground\n\nWhat You'll Get to Do\n\nLead the design, development, and integration of custom radio and RF hardware supporting critical national security missions. 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