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Senior Cyber RF Hardware Engineer
$134K–$184K
Woburn, MA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- Woburn, MA
Woburn, Massachusetts, United States - Experience
- 5 years of related experience with a BS, or 3 years with an MS.
- Education
- BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field; or MS.
- Visa sponsorship
- Positions require employees to obtain national security clearances and comply with export-control and other applicable laws; this role requires ability to obtain a Top Secret (TS) clearance, for which U.S. citizenship is needed.
About the job
Designs, prototypes, tests, and characterizes RF hardware systems and platforms supporting hardware-in-the-loop, surrogate, digital-twin, and reverse-engineering work.
What you'll do
- Develop and test rapid-prototype RF solutions using commercial and custom hardware; characterize and debug systems in a laboratory.
- Lead development of lab-based hardware acquisition and control platforms, and prepare and execute test events.
- Contribute to interdisciplinary hardware efforts, design reviews and documentation, and proposal estimates for technical approach, cost, and schedule.
What they ask for
- BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field with 5 years of related experience, or MS with 3 years.
- Expertise in electrical circuit design principles in at least one area: RF, analog, or digital.
- Experience presenting technical material and leading hardware efforts from concept through implementation, managing cost and schedule.
- Ability to obtain a Top Secret (TS) security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required for clearance eligibility.
Nice to have
- Active Top Secret (TS) clearance; strong RF design or implementation background.
- Experience with FPGA engineering, RF modeling, software-defined radios, PCB design, signal processing, or Linux-based test software.
Pay
$134,000 - $184,000 USD base salary
Tools
oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, VNAs, Spice, MATLAB/Simulink, Microwave Office, Python, C++
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