NAVWAR Engineer

Overview

Bowhead seeks an NAVWAR Engineer to support the Joint Navigation Warfare Center (JNWC) in Albuquerque, NM.

In support of the Joint Navigation Warfare Center (JNWC) contract, you will be a part of our team’s efforts to empower the Department of Defense’s navigation warfare (NAVWAR) mission ensuring positioning, navigation and timing superiority. Our mission is to provide combatant commanders and joint force commanders with subject matter expertise on planning and conducting NAVWAR by providing knowledge of friendly and enemy NAVWAR Order of Battle and PNT-related successes and threats.

Responsibilities

• Serves as baseline Navwar engineer

• Provide research and development of multi-function small form factor payloads for completing NAVWAR-based missions

• Develop and analyze models of novel algorithmic concepts to produce distributed electronic sensing effects for NAVWAR payloads

• Utilize EW signal processing algorithms that enable threat detection and identification for employing countermeasures

• Develop systems to support GPS system hardening to prevent NAVWAR effects on blue force systems

• Develop RF hardware and software solutions for integrating EW, Comms, and Radar missions into a small form factor payload

• Investigate heterogeneous sensing concepts across different platforms (i.e. manned and unmanned, high altitude ISR, ALE, etc.). Investigate sensing approaches with passive modes

• Design and implement testing of RF and other hardware portions of software defined radio frameworks

• Reverse engineer existing NAVWAR signal processing solutions

• Synthesize and allocate system requirements, and derive requirements to ensure the system architecture is fully defined, understood, and compliant to mission needs

• Support development and implementation of client requirements for RF solutions including services, products, technologies and capabilities which encompass airborne mission environments.

• Performs Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) testing on systems that can be impacted by denial/deception of PNT/GPS

• Support technical reviews of vendor hardware and software products and deliverables, interface development and development of software algorithms and models for simulation

• Research of the state-of-the-art signal processing algorithms

• Work with customers (both internal and external to JNWC) to help integrate solutions into a wide variety of applications and use cases

• Debug, test, and validate our capabilities using both unit tests as well as scenarios reported by the JNWC or JNWC Customers

• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• BS in an engineering discipline or a related field

• From 3 to 10 years of relevant experience

• Must have prior leadership or management experience in higher-level roles

Desired

• Professional Engineer License (PE) for senior level

• MS Degree

SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS: Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI clearance. May begin work with an Interim Secret clearance or higher. US Citizenship is a requirement for Top Secret clearance at this location. Applicants with an In-Scope DoW Secret or Top Secret are preferred.

Physical Demands:

• Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds

• Must be able to stand and walk for prolonged amounts of time

• Must be able to twist, bend and squat periodically

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Applicants may be subject to a pre-employment drug & alcohol screening and/or random drug screen, and must follow UIC’s Non-DOT Drug & Alcohol Testing Program requirements. If the position requires, an applicant must pass a pre-employment criminal background history check. All post-secondary education listed on the applicant’s resume/application may be subject to verification.

Where driving may be required or where a rental car must be obtained for business travel purposes, applicants must have a valid driver license for this position and will be subject to verification. In addition, the applicant must pass an in-house, online, driving course to be authorized to drive for company purposes.

UIC is an equal opportunity employer. Ukpeaġvik Iñupiat Corporation (UIC) considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, military/veteran status, marital status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status EOE/D/V. Pursuant to The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act 43 U.S.C. Sec. 1601 et seq., and subject to other state and federal requirements, UIC and its subsidiaries may legally grant certain preference in employment opportunities to UIC Shareholders and their Descendants. Please view Equal Employment Opportunity posters here .

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UIC Government Services (UICGS / Bowhead) provides innovative business solutions to federal and commercial customers in the areas of engineering, maintenance services, information technology, program support, logistics/base support, and procurement. Collectively, the fast-growing Bowhead Family of Companies offers a breadth of services which are performed with a focus on quality results. Headquartered in Springfield, VA, we are a fast-growing, multi-million-dollar company recognized as a top Alaska Native Corporation providing services across the Department of Defense and many federal agencies. Bowhead offers competitive benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, short/long-term disability, and 401(k) retirement plans as well as a paid time off programs for eligible full-time employees. Eligible part-time employees are able to participate in the 401(k) retirement plans and state or contract required paid time off programs.

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ID 2026-26569

Category Engineering

Location : Location US-NM-Kirtland AFB

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain Top Secret/SCI

Minimum Clearance Required N/A

Travel Requirement Less than 10%