About Level Up 

Level Up, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AVIAN, represents a fusion of innovation, reliability, and top-tier cyber security and IT solutions. As a Virginia-based small business with over 150 years of collective experience, we pride ourselves on providing industry-leading expertise, big data analytics, and all-source research and analysis. Our technical capabilities directly bolster our customers' objectives, from mission centers to forward-deployed operations. 

In 2021, we joined forces with AVIAN, an employee-owned business and one of America’s fastest-growing private companies. With a shared commitment to resourcefulness, responsiveness, and reachability, we continue to uphold our trademark dependability and innovation, delivering exceptional services to our 80 government and commercial clients across 13 states. 

Beyond our technical and consulting prowess, we at Level Up believe in creating a positive impact within our communities. Through our charitable giving and volunteer programs, we support causes close to our hearts and inspire meaningful change. This commitment to service and community enhancement is what we call "The Level Up Way". 

Together, Level Up and AVIAN offer comprehensive solutions, blending technology and community engagement to create an exceptional partnership for our employees, customers, and community. 

RF/Satcom Engineer will perform the following tasks:

• Pre-deployment spectrum surveys, analysis, and link budget calculations to help determine usable configurations.
• Post-deployment spectrum surveys and analysis to perform troubleshooting on known/suspected issues.
• Perform performance / state of health analysis.
• Perform analysis of test data and recommend modifications to hardware, software, or configuration items.

In this role you will also:

• Be responsible for analyzing and developing wireless telecommunications capabilities for various operations. Design and build custom applications. Design, plan, establish, and optimize wireless networks.
• Develop wireless network infrastructures and make recommendations on systems enhancements for optimization.
• Provide technical assessment of requirements and definition from conception to launch.
• Design and validate RF link performance, quality and reliability.
• Use measuring and diagnostic tools to test and adjust equipment.
• Create manuals and support documentation.
• Develop software for wireless technology.
• Optimize existing network by adjusting radio network parameters, adding/deleting of neighbors and recommending possible solutions to hardware problems.
• Monitor and analyze statistical and drive test data to improve system performance indicators such as dropped calls, blocked calls, origination failures, hand-off features.
• Apply propagation theory, cellular theory, and antenna theory to choose tower antenna placement.
• Responsible for capacity planning, GSM frequency planning and frequency hopping by applying carrier/interference (C/I) ratio analysis.
• Recommend site upgrade such as down tilling of antenna and re-orientation of radio additions.
• Support customers in the development, acquisition, and sustainment activities of complex RF systems used in Communications, Radar, and Electronic Warfare. Responsibilities will include the design and evaluation of up/down converters, and amplifiers, MMICs, MCMs, and TRMs. Reverse engineer legacy RF hardware systems to develop obsolesce plans, test procedures, and perform trade analysis.
• Conduct and develop Test & Evaluation plans for RF test stations and field test events for system/subsystem manufacturing and fleet support.
• Develop and present technical reports.
• Perform modeling and simulation of RF circuits and RF propagation Experience designing radar phased array T/R module experience. Highly desired experience with Agilent ADS, ANSYS HFSS, NI LabView, and MatLab Modeling Near-Field antenna patterns. Phase noise analysis.

The candidate should:

• Perform traditional Systems Engineering at the enterprise/strategic level within the context of the political landscape, operational restrictions, and changes, and interacting systems across the customer’s organization.
• Provide project management support with short turn-around projects; development of requirements, project plans, needs assessment, transition planning, and future looking roadmaps.
• Perform innovation research relevant to the project areas within the strategic roadmap.
• Be a self-starter with leadership capabilities and execution of roles and responsibilities with little to no supervision.
• Require minimal oversight to complete tasks in a timely manner.
• Identify integration issues and coordinate Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs) to resolve them.
• Establish and maintain interpersonal relationships, as well as handle complaints, settle disputes and resolve conflicts.
• Have strong decision-making skills, as well as the ability to organize and prioritize work.
• Have demonstrated experience leading technical teams to develop/implement hardware/software requirements.
• Have demonstrated ability to quickly ramp up to support the customer’s needs, clearly communicate (orally & written) ideas, work autonomously, take the initiative to provide creative alternatives to intractable challenges or systemic problems.
• Have ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal.
• Have demonstrated strong customer and partner relationship building skills.

• BS/BA and 12-15 years of experience OR MS and 10-13 years of experience, or PhD 8-10 years of experience
• Technical Degree (Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, etc.)
• IC or DoD experience
• TS/SCI with Poly level clearance is required

Clearance Required