1 day ago
Arlington, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$180k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead AI/ML, RF sensing, communications, and networking capabilities from requirements definition through implementation, integration, testing, demonstrations, deployment, and sustainment.
- Translate customer and mission objectives into requirements, architectures, development plans, milestones, performance measures, and acceptance criteria.
- Lead and mentor engineers and researchers while coordinating with systems engineers, RF and communications researchers, DevSecOps personnel, and mission partners.
- Decompose complex technical work, manage dependencies, interfaces, risks, and progress, and communicate decisions and tradeoffs to stakeholders.
- Design and oversee architectures spanning RF and sensor-data pipelines, AI/ML integrations, services, APIs, databases, user interfaces, Open RAN integrations, and deployment infrastructure.
- Lead development of capabilities such as spectrum sensing, signal classification, interference mitigation, channel estimation, beam management, adaptive links, and passive-radar processing.
- Drive design reviews, code reviews, integration, testing, customer demonstrations, release readiness, and compliance with reliability, security, maintainability, and performance requirements.
- Contribute technical content to proposals, customer engagements, transition planning, and mission-relevant capability delivery.
Requirements
- PhD with 2+ years, MS with 6+ years, or BS with 8+ years of relevant experience in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance, requiring U.S. citizenship under U.S. government requirements.
- Experience leading software development efforts, major workstreams, or complex subsystems and coordinating contributors, interfaces, risks, and technical tradeoffs.
- Experience translating customer needs into requirements, designs, development and test plans, and integrated capabilities across software, AI/ML, RF, communications, hardware, data, and deployment components.
- Experience applying AI/ML to operational problems involving sensor, time-series, RF, communications, or other non-textual data.
- Proficiency in Python, C++, Java, Go, or a similar language and experience developing and maintaining production-quality software.
- Experience with Git, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, containers, issue tracking, documentation, and secure software-development practices.
- Preferred experience includes RF signal processing, wireless communications, 5G/6G RAN, O-RAN/AI-RAN, waveform generation or adaptation, edge AI, digital signal processing, software-defined radios, PHY/MAC processing, or real-time communications software.
- Preferred qualifications include active Secret, Top Secret, or TS/SCI clearance; distributed, data-intensive, real-time, cloud, on-premises, edge, RF, or communications architecture experience; DevSecOps; message queues; stream processing; distributed computing; microservices; customer demonstrations; technical proposals; and LLM-enabled development tools such as Cursor or Codex.
Benefits
- Full-time role with locations near Boston, Arlington, Dayton, Melbourne, Carlsbad, Atlanta, and Denver.
- Requires employees to obtain national security clearances and satisfy export-control and other applicable legal requirements.
- Collaborative learning environment supporting deep technical understanding and recognizing team contributions.
- Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodation available during the employment process.
About STR
STR develops cyber, electronic warfare, sensing, and AI/ML systems and analytics for U.S. defense and intelligence customers, delivering R&D services, prototypes, and fielded capabilities. The privately held, employee-owned company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, with sites near Boston, Arlington (VA), Dayton (OH), Melbourne (FL), and Carlsbad (CA). Work spans RF, sonar, radar, command-and-control, and ISR, including subsea sensors and signal processing.