RF Digital Circuit Engineer
Crane, INJob$80–120K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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SAIC seeks an RF and Digital Circuit Engineer to support electronic-system design, development, integration, testing, troubleshooting, and sustainment in Crane, Indiana. The role involves hands-on work with RF systems, digital circuitry, embedded electronics, and test equipment, along with analysis of system performance and hardware issues. The position requires in-person support and may periodically require second-shift work.
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Description
SAIC is seeking an experienced RF and Digital Circuit Engineer to support the design, development, integration, testing, troubleshooting, and sustainment of complex electronic systems in Crane, IN. This position requires hands-on experience with radio-frequency systems, digital circuitry, embedded electronics, and electronic test equipment. The successful candidate will analyze system and circuit performance, diagnose hardware issues, develop technical solutions, and collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering and technical teams. The engineer may support new system development, existing-system modifications, production activities, laboratory testing, and lifecycle sustainment.
This role requires in-person support. May be required to support 2nd shift periodically.
Duties:
Design, analyze, test, and troubleshoot RF, analog, and digital electronic circuits and subsystems.
Develop and evaluate circuit designs, schematics, block diagrams, wiring diagrams, and technical documentation.
Perform laboratory testing and system-level integration using oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, signal generators, logic analyzers, power meters, and other electronic test equipment.
Troubleshoot circuit cards, RF assemblies, digital interfaces, power supplies, communication systems, and related electronic hardware.
Analyze RF performance characteristics, including frequency response, signal integrity, gain, noise, impedance, modulation, filtering, and power output.
Evaluate digital circuitry, including processors, microcontrollers, field-programmable gate arrays, memory devices, data buses, and digital communication interfaces.
Support the development of test procedures, test plans, acceptance criteria, and automated or manual test solutions.
Conduct failure analysis and root-cause investigations and recommend corrective actions.
Support prototype development, system modifications, hardware upgrades, and engineering change activities.
Review technical data, drawings, specifications, and system requirements for accuracy and completeness.
Document test results, engineering analyses, technical recommendations, and design decisions.
Collaborate with systems, software, mechanical, test, manufacturing, logistics, and configuration-management personnel.
Provide technical guidance to engineering technicians and other team members.
Support technical reviews, customer meetings, design reviews, and program-status discussions.
Ensure engineering activities comply with applicable quality, safety, cybersecurity, configuration-management, and documentation requirements.
Qualifications
Required Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Security Clearance Requirement : Active Secret Clearance
Required Experience:
3+ years of hands-on electronics troubleshooting and circuit analysis.
Professional experience designing, testing, integrating, or troubleshooting RF and digital electronic systems.
Working knowledge of RF principles, digital logic, electronic components, circuit analysis, and signal processing.
Experience reading and interpreting electrical schematics, circuit-card drawings, wiring diagrams, and technical specifications.
Hands-on experience with electronic laboratory and RF test equipment.
Ability to diagnose complex electronic hardware and system-level performance issues.
Strong technical writing, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary technical team.
Must be a US Citizen.
Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
REQNUMBER: 2618832
SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability
How this job compares
Set against the 729 open RF Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$80–120K/yr
- US median$125–195K/yr509 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $100K, is 37% below the US median midpoint ($159K) — in the lowest quarter of RF Engineer salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 729 open RF Engineer jobs across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; RF Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (616 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 471 of the 729 open RF Engineer jobs (65%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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