Senior Radar Analyst

LB433 – Senior Radar Analyst

Location: Enfield

Salary: £65,000

Overview:

First Military Recruitment are currently seeking a Senior Radar Analyst on behalf of one of our clients.

Our client encourages applications from ex-military personnel however all candidates will be given due consideration.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• To provide analysis of radar and radar related systems.
• To produce new radar system design concepts.
• To develop models of current and future radar systems to enable design / performance parameters to be established.
• To provide technical assistance to other areas of research and development.
• Develop mathematical models of radar and radar sub-systems using appropriate tools: MATLAB, Simulink, and Mathcad.
• Provide design data for hardware and software developers.
• Assist in the validation of developed hardware and software.
• Produce / assist in the production of detailed specifications to enable equipment to be developed.
• Conduct detailed analysis of radar performance, including on occasion, trials data and produce reports for internal and external customers.
• Design and develop digital signal processing algorithms.
• Liaise with sub-system suppliers to ensure performance criteria are met.
• Play a leading role in the development of new radar systems.
• Prepare and present technical papers to customers and external organisations.
• Travel within the UK and overseas is required and is considered a regular feature of this role. Requests could be made at short notice.
• Any other tasks associated with this role.

Skills and Qualifications:

• A Masters or Bachelor’s degree.
• Experience with MATLAB and digital signal processing.
• Working knowledge of Radar or closely related applications (e.g. Sonar, Image Processing, Comms).
• Proven record of completing analysis and design tasks on time and within budget.
• Self-motivated and enjoys working within a team.
• Good command of written and verbal English.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of the following:
• Pulse compression, doppler filtering, CFAR and detection.
• Radar video or image processing, plot extraction and tracking.
• Phased array radar.
• Embedded software, Linux or FPGA.
• RF, antenna or radar electronics.
• Systems engineering or project management R&D background (e.g., papers/patents, time spent in academia).
• Comfortable with hardware test and debug using lab equipment.
• Experience of source control and issue tracking tools (e.g., git / JIRA).
• Other commonly used programming languages, e.g. Python, C/C++.

Location: Enfield

Salary: £65,000