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This role works across RF, digital, FPGA, and embedded systems to develop new communications capabilities, troubleshoot complex hardware, and rapidly prototype solutions for advanced mission requirements. This position is located at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.\nMore About the Role\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.\nRequired Qualifications\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.\nDesired Qualifications\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.\nWhy Join PCG\nParra Consulting Group offers a collaborative, mission-focused environment where your expertise directly supports national security operations. 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