{"id":3246801,"url":"https://alion.io/job/mitre-spectrum-compatibility-engineer-senior","title":"Spectrum Compatibility Engineer, Senior","company":{"id":37980,"name":"MITRE","domain":"mitre.org","url":"https://alion.io/company/mitre","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Phenom","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["McLean, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":126800,"max":158500,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":158500},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"MATLAB","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Wi-Fi","optional":false},{"name":"Simulink","optional":true},{"name":"STK","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-25T19:11:07Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-25","last_verified_at":"2026-10-29T07:47:26Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies - collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose - and help shape the future.Summary\nMITRE is seeking a Spectrum Compatibility Engineer to support advanced analysis, modeling, and simulation of wireless systems operating in complex electromagnetic environments. This position is focused on evaluating spectrum coexistence, compatibility, interference risk, and operational performance across diverse RF systems, platforms, and networks.\nThe ideal candidate will have strong experience in RF engineering, wireless communications, and spectrum analysis as well as familiarity with the various ITU-recommended coexistence modeling approaches and spectrum compatibility tools available today. This role will support studies and engineering evaluations involving commercial and government systems, with emphasis on understanding how systems interact in congested and contested spectrum environments.\nRoles & Responsibilities:\nPerform technical analysis of spectrum-dependent systems to determine compatibility and/or impacts across commercial and government use cases\nDefine appropriate evaluation methodologies to evaluate the compatibility of communication, radar, and navigation systems operating in shared or adjacent frequency bands.\nConduct propagation modeling, link analysis, frequency planning, and interference assessments across varied operational environments.\nAssess the operational impacts of interference on system performance across current and emerging technologies E.g., commercial xG on government systems\nPrepare technical reports, trade studies, engineering recommendations, and sponsor briefings based on analytical findings.\nContribute to engineering studies involving dynamic spectrum sharing and access, congestion analysis, mission impact assessments, and operational deconfliction strategies.\nBasic Qualifications:\nTypically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.\nA technical background in at least 1 fundamental signal processing or communications domain such as:detection and estimation theory\nwaveform design, modulation theory, error control coding, information theory\nstochastic processes, propagation, channel estimation and equalization\nreceiver design, interference cancellation, algorithm development\nsystem performance analysis, RF laboratory testing\nadvanced wireless protocols such as 5G NR, LTE, Wi-Fi, IoT, Bluetooth\n\nStrong background in analysis, modeling, and simulation of wireless or RF systems\nExperience in software development languages such as MATLAB or Python\nExperience assessing commercial and government wireless systems in varied spectrum environments.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, including technical documentation and presentation development.\nAbility to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance\nPer the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.\nThis position requires a minimum of 3 days on site each week.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nMaster’s or PhD in electrical engineering, applied mathematics, physics, systems engineering, or related discipline\n5+ years of professional experience in wireless communications, RF engineering, spectrum engineering, electromagnetic compatibility, or related analytical engineering work.\nExperience evaluating spectrum coexistence, interference mechanisms, and compatibility across multiple systems or platforms.\nExperience conducting studies involving coexistence between commercial wireless technologies and government communication, radar, or platform systems.\nFamiliarity with modeling and simulation tools such as Sionna, MATLAB, Simulink, STK, HFSS, CST, Wireless InSite, SEAMCAT, HTZ communications, or similar.\nFamiliarity with spectrum regulations, allocation frameworks, and supportability considerations relevant to government and commercial systems.\nUnderstanding of software-defined radios, adaptive communications, electronic protection, or dynamic spectrum access concepts.\nFull responsibility for delivering technical reports, presentations, and/or code, including definition, completion, and technical quality\nAbility to obtain Top Secret or higher clearance\nThis requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):\nNoneThis requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):\nSecretSalary compensation range and midpoint:\n$126,800 - $158,500 - $190,200 AnnualWork Location Type:\nOnsiteIt is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. 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