Digital Communications Engineer
**Up to $170/hour**
*Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD SECRET clearance is required*

Kelly Government Solutions is hiring for a digital communications engineer on a Department of Defense contract with our customer in San Diego, CA.  This is a contract to hire opportunity.

Job Description:
Our customer’s employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people’s lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation’s history – from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they’re making history.

Our customer is looking for a Digital Communications Engineer to support their Systems Engineering Integration & Test (SEIT) department. As a member of the SEIT department you’ll work in a fast-paced team environment alongside other engineers with a wide array of technical skills to make our technologies a reality. Their Advanced Digital Engineering group creates the next generation of communications and signal processing systems and will take ideas from concept to working systems aboard the world’s most advanced platforms. They bring design to life in our San Diego labs and have on-site advanced manufacturing just minutes from the beach Southern California is famous for. As a Digital Communications Engineer at our customer, you will have an opportunity to be a part of an organization that is collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.
We’re asking: are you ready to challenge the impossible and define possible? If you have hands-on experience in Digital Communication, apply today.

This position will serve on-site at our customer’s Emerging Capabilities Development group in San Diego, CA.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for research, design, and development for digital designs associated with multi-function software defined radios, as well as automated test equipment
  

• Work with evaluation boards to test proposed designs
  

• Support the implementation of digital FPGA hardware architecture and algorithms
  

• Collaborate with Systems Engineering to ensure firmware design meets system level requirements
  

• Review designs and analysis
  

• Proven ability to drive complex technical problems to closure
  

• Proven ability to lead product delivery
  

• May lead a team of technical engineers

Basic Qualifications:

• 12 Years with Bachelors Degree in Electrical, Computer or related Engineering discipline with specialty in Digital Communications; 10 Years with Masters; 8 Years with PhD
  

• Experience in the design and development of digital communications systems including modulation, signal & receiver design, noise processes, detection, equalization, coding, synchronization, and multi-access communications
  

• Experience in Link budget development, modeling, and testing
  

• MATLAB and Simulink modeling of digital comms systems and algorithms experience
  

• Hands-on experience in Digital Communications within the last 3 years
  

• Experience with leading teams through product implementation or demonstration
  

• Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD SECRET clearance is required
   

Preferred Qualifications:

• Optimization of MATLAB or Simulink code generated HDL and porting to FPGAs or ASICs
  

• Open air and/or flight testing of advanced communication system
  

• Active/Current DoD Top Secret Clearance with SCI
  

• Experience with Military Waveforms
  

• Waveform Algorithm Design and Decomposition
  

• Waveform ASIC Development

As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Visit https://www.mykelly.com/help-support-working-with-kelly-us/#Benefits for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.

What happens next:
Once you apply, you’ll proceed to next steps if your skills and experience look like a good fit. But don’t worry – even if this position doesn’t work out, you’re still in our network. That means our team of expert recruiters will have access to your profile, making your opportunities limitless.

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