Senior Radar Analyst - Castelion

About Castelion

Castelion is bringing a new approach to defense development and production: one that focuses on short, iterative design cycles, rapid testing in development, and modern commercial manufacturing strategies for production at scale. We’re designing, building, and testing next generation long range strike weapons systems to give America and its Allies a definitive edge and deter future conflicts.

Senior Radar Analyst

Castelion is seeking a high performing senior radar analyst who can extract critical insights and actionable information from a large volume of simulated and measured radar data. A successful candidate will be one who “gets their hands dirty” in the data, meaning they go beyond the theory and math to find out what is actually happening in the system. The role also includes acting on the findings to improve radar performance. This includes algorithm modifications (or upgrades) and calibration modifications (or additions). To this end, the senior radar analyst is responsible for the overall calibration approach for the radar seeker. This aspect of the role involves working with algorithm owners and systems engineers to determine what data products (and at what quality level) are needed to reliably produce seekers at scale.

Responsibilities

• Calibration. Develop the production calibration approach for the radar seeker that includes all the different calibration data products required to meet seeker performance. This includes beam pointing, beam forming, range/Doppler impulse response, channel equalization, angle estimation, and many more. You are also expected to write calibration algorithms to convert measurements into calibration data products and develop verifications to demonstrate/document calibration success. Castelion is highly focused on cost, and calibration affects seeker cost. Thus, you are expected to constantly track and improve calibration costs such as duration, special test equipment, and “touch” labor.

• Data Analysis. Castelion is building a data-rich development ecosystem. As a senior radar analyst, you will be expected to analyze data from simulation, chamber, captive flight test, and test shots. You are expected to develop automated tools for analyzing large data sets and metrics for tracking performance over time. Your analysis tools will be written for deployment in Castelion’s cloud-based infrastructure and used regularly by other engineers.

• Operate in Fast-Paced Environment. Castelion prioritizes a high frequency test cadence over large, capstone demonstrations. As the radar analyst, you will be responsible for delivering analyses that enable this cadence.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering
• 5+ years of radar experience
• Adaptive signal processing
• AESA calibration
• Direction of arrival estimation
• Proficient in Python
• Basic understanding of relational databases

Leadership Qualities

Bias to Action and Creative Problem Solving. Desire and experience questioning assumptions in ways that lead to break through ideas that are ultimately implemented. Successfully bring in applicable processes/concepts/materials from other industries to achieve efficiency gains. Ability to personally resolve minor issues in development without requiring significant support.

High Commitment, High Initiative. A successful candidate will have a genuine passion for Castelion’s mission and consistently look for ways to contribute to the company’s technical goals and prevent hardware blockers. Ability to work in a fast paced, autonomously driven, and demanding atmosphere. Strong sense of accountability and integrity.

Clear Communicator. Proactively communicates blockers. Trusted in previous roles to be voice of company with regulators, suppliers, gate keepers and customers. Capable of tactfully managing relationships with stakeholders to achieve company-desired outcomes without compromising relationships. Emails, IMs and verbal interactions are logical, drive clarity, and detailed enough to eliminate ambiguity.

ITAR Requirements:

• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Employment with Castelion is governed on the basis of competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.