Senior Radar Analyst

Description

Senior Radar Analyst

An established UK-based defence and security technology organisation is seeking a Senior Radar Analyst to join its Research and Development function. This position offers the opportunity for a Radar Analyst to work on advanced radar systems used across complex, long-term defence programmes.

The Role

As a Senior Radar Analyst, you will play a key role in the analysis, modelling and development of current and future radar systems. The Radar Analyst will work closely with hardware, software and systems engineering teams, contributing directly to performance, design and validation activities.

Key responsibilities include:

Developing mathematical models of radar systems and sub-systems using MATLAB, Simulink and Mathcad as a Radar Analyst

Producing design and performance data to support hardware and software developers

Supporting validation and verification activities for developed hardware and software

Producing detailed technical specifications to enable equipment development

Conducting detailed radar performance analysis, including trial data, and producing reports for internal and external customers

Designing and developing digital signal processing algorithms as part of the Radar Analyst role

Liaising with sub-system suppliers to ensure performance requirements are met

Taking a leading technical role in the development of new radar systems

Preparing and presenting technical papers to customers and external organisations

The Senior Radar Analyst role includes travel within the UK and overseas. This is a regular requirement and may occasionally be at short notice.

Essential Requirements

Bachelor s or Master s degree from a good university in a relevant technical discipline

Strong experience with MATLAB and digital signal processing

Working knowledge of radar systems or closely related areas such as sonar, communications or image processing

Proven ability to deliver analysis and design work on time and within budget

Self-motivated, with the ability to work effectively within a technical team

Strong written and verbal English communication skills

Desirable Experience

Knowledge of pulse compression, Doppler filtering, CFAR and detection techniques

Radar video or image processing, plot extraction and tracking

Phased array radar systems

Embedded software, Linux or FPGA-based development

RF, antenna or radar electronics

Systems engineering or R&D background, including academic research, papers or patents

Comfortable working with hardware test and debug using laboratory equipment

Experience with source control and issue tracking tools such as Git or JIRA

Additional programming languages such as Python or C/C++

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