{"id":2406767,"url":"https://alion.io/job/dpgsolutionsllc-rf-systemshardware-engineer","title":"RF Systems/Hardware Engineer","company":{"id":4421738,"name":"DPG Solutions","domain":"dpgsolutionsllc.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/dpgsolutionsllc","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"BambooHR","truth_index":{"grade":"C","score":59,"open_postings":16,"ghost_share":0.688,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-11-07T05:47:08Z"}},"role":"Hardware","role_family":"Hardware","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Aurora, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":92000,"max_usd":208000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":3123},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2024-11-07T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2024-11-07","last_verified_at":"2026-11-07T09:03:57Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":730,"trust":{"level":"ghost","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale","company_stale"],"days_open":730},"description":"US Citizenship is required\nAn active TS/SCI w/CI Polygraph is required\nOccasional CONUS and OCONUS travel may be required\nAnnual Base Pay: $150-180k with 25% company funded 401k based off base pay\nDPG Solutions is seeking a qualified and experienced RF Systems / Hardware Engineer to support engineering analysis, baseline management, operations and maintenance, system enhancement, and integration activities for a complex, high-priority operational communications system.\nThis role is best suited for an engineer with hands-on experience supporting RF ground systems, satellite communications systems, hardware sustainment, troubleshooting, requirements management, and operational system support. The selected candidate will help ensure the successful operation, maintenance, sustainment, and enhancement of hardware associated with mission-critical communications capabilities.\nThe ideal candidate will be comfortable working across engineering, operations, maintenance, troubleshooting, documentation, and system improvement activities. This person should be able to diagnose system issues, collect and analyze diagnostic data, restore system operations, develop workarounds, support new capability development, and provide recommendations that improve system performance, reliability, and operational efficiency.\nJob Description\nDPG is hiring an RF Systems / Hardware Engineer to support operations, maintenance, sustainment, and enhancement of a complex operational communications system. The selected candidate will provide RF systems engineering support, hardware troubleshooting, requirements analysis, baseline management, technical documentation, and integration support.\nThis role requires strong technical judgment, hands-on RF test equipment experience, the ability to troubleshoot and resolve system outages, and the discipline to document issues clearly through logging and discrepancy reporting tools. The RF Systems / Hardware Engineer will support system recovery activities, operational process improvements, concept of operations development, architecture recommendations, and engineering change support.\nWhat You Will Do\nSupport operations, maintenance, sustainment, and enhancement of RF ground systems and satellite communications system hardware.\nProvide engineering analysis, baseline management, system enhancement, integration, and operational support.\nTroubleshoot, document, and resolve system outages and other operational issues.\nCollect diagnostic data, analyze system behavior, document discrepancies, and support restoration of system operations.\nDevelop workarounds and corrective actions necessary to recover or improve system performance.\nStore, retrieve, manipulate, and analyze data to support troubleshooting, system capability assessments, and requirements analysis.\nUse RF test and diagnostic equipment such as spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, signal generators, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers.\nMonitor equipment performance and make required modifications to ensure systems operate in accordance with specifications.\nGenerate, analyze, track, and manage system and hardware requirements.\nDevelop and maintain schematics, analysis products, block diagrams, system bills of material, and design review packages.\nSupport engineering change activities, including design performance and cost trade studies.\nProvide recommendations for new operational concepts, system architecture, system enhancements, and process improvements.\nSupport the development and refinement of operational and engineering processes and procedures.\nSupport the generation of concepts of operations and provide technical recommendations for system architecture.\nIdentify and document RF capability enhancements through white papers, technical recommendations, and other formal submittals.\nContribute effectively on design teams and provide technical insight to engineering team members.\nProvide occasional after-hours call-in support when required.\nSupport occasional CONUS and OCONUS travel, including emergency repair trips with little or no advance notice.\nWork at heights when required and complete applicable safety requirements for antenna or tower training.\nQualifications You Must Have\nPrior experience supporting operations, maintenance, troubleshooting, and sustainment of RF ground systems or satellite communications systems.\nExperience in maintaining, repairing, and enhancing mission-critical communications system hardware and related RF/SATCOM infrastructure.\nProficiency using RF test and diagnostic equipment, including spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, signal analyzers, signal generators, oscilloscopes, FieldFox, and similar tools.\nExperience troubleshooting loss-of-signal issues across antenna, RF, modem, cabling, and signal-processing paths.\nExperience performing periodic maintenance on moveable antenna systems, including familiarity with antenna control units, servos, and related mechanical/electrical subsystems.\nFamiliarity with upconverters, downconverters, modems, encoders, modulators, antenna control units, servos, and related SATCOM/RF components.\nHands-on experience with ViaSat equipment and AMERGINT modems.\nStrong knowledge of RF cabling, connectors, cable construction, termination, testing, and validation.\nUnderstanding of signal loss over distance, frequency-dependent cable loss, and cable selection for different frequencies, power levels, environments, and mission applications.\nExperience in collecting diagnostic data, documenting technical issues, supporting discrepancy reporting, identifying root cause, and restoring system operations.\nExperience in generating, analyzing, tracking, and managing technical requirements.\nExperience developing and maintaining RF systems engineering documentation, including schematics, block diagrams, system analysis, bills of material, design review packages, white papers, and technical recommendations.\nExperience supporting performance, design, and cost trade studies for proposed engineering changes.\nAbility to apply technical knowledge and operational experience to recommend new concepts, architectures, capability enhancements, and system improvements.\nAbility to contribute effectively on technical design teams and provide sound engineering input.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills.\nAbility to provide occasional after-hours call-in support.\nAbility to support occasional CONUS and OCONUS travel, including emergency repair travel with limited advance notice.\nAbility to work at heights and complete applicable antenna, tower, or site safety training requirements.\nQualifications We Prefer\nExperience with RF ground systems supporting satellite communications missions.\nExperience with operational communications systems in defense, intelligence, aerospace, or mission-critical environments.\nExperience supporting fielded systems where uptime, reliability, and rapid restoration are critical.\nExperience supporting hardware integration, system enhancement, and new capability development.\nExperience with requirements verification, test support, system validation, and configuration baseline management.\nExperience supporting design reviews, technical reviews, and engineering change boards.\nExperience with system architecture analysis, concept of operations development, and operational workflow improvement.\nExperience performing fault isolation across RF hardware, communications equipment, antennas, cabling, interfaces, and supporting infrastructure.\nExperience working in secure, controlled, or government customer environments.\nFamiliarity with safety, security, export control, and quality requirements associated with defense or aerospace systems.\nDesired Skills\nStrong RF systems engineering judgment and the ability to troubleshoot complex operational issues.\nAbility to communicate technical findings 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