Chaos Industries
Senior RF Geolocation Engineer
$110K–$151K
Washington, District of Columbia, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of relevant experience.
- Education
- B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field.
About the job
Develops and validates passive RF geolocation algorithms for distributed sensing systems, from mathematical modeling through software integration, calibration, and field testing.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, simulate, and validate passive RF geolocation and imaging algorithms, including TDOA, FDOA, and hybrid methods.
- Assess detection and localization performance under real-world impairments, and translate algorithms into efficient implementations for deployment.
- Collaborate with hardware and systems teams on requirements, integration, calibration, testing, and technical documentation.
What they ask for
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field.
- 5+ years of relevant experience developing RF signal processing, estimation, or geolocation algorithms.
- Experience developing passive RF geolocation algorithms and applying detection frameworks in noisy RF environments.
- Proficiency in Python, MATLAB, C++, or similar languages; must be a U.S. citizen, able to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance, and able to work on-site 3–5 days per week in Hawthorne, CA or Washington, D.C.
Nice to have
- M.S. or Ph.D. in a related technical field; current U.S. security clearance.
- Expertise in passive RF geolocation, distributed coherent sensing, real-time compute optimization, or software-defined radios.
Pay
$110,000 - $151,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, MATLAB, C++, DSP, GPU, FPGA, JIRA, Confluence
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