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Job Title: Communications Engineer

Company Name: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Location: Lexington, MA
Profession: Telecommunications Engineering

Job Description:

Communications Engineer


The Net-Centric Integration Group focuses on integrating communication and networking capabilities to provide a prototyping and test environment for future airborne networking implementations. The emphasis in the Net-Centric Integration Group is the development of an airborne communication node, which serves as a hub providing heterogeneous RF and optical data links, onboard gateway and routing, and network capacity brokering. To support experimentation and test, the group manages and operates a 707 test aircraft; a ground-based, portable communications and operations center, and a free-space microwave propagation measurement range.

A communication systems engineer is needed to participate in the implementation of an advanced, protected military SATCOM capability and line-of-sight data links in mobile platforms, including jet aircraft. Assignments will involve communication system engineering, analysis, simulation, functional decomposition and requirements development for hardware and firmware engineers.

Requirements:
PhD in Electrical Engineering is required. In lieu of a PhD, an MSEE with 5 or more years of directly related experience will be considered. Knowledge of communications systems engineering, modulation and coding methods, channel capacity calculations, and data networking theory.

Desired Skills:
Project or internship experience with digital communication system analysis and/or implementation is highly desirable. Exposure to data networking theory, including protocols, capacity calculations, and quality-of-service issues is desired. Experience in some of the following areas is also desired: anti-jam modulation and coding methods, satellite-based signal processing, earth terminal/satellite interactions, and data networking in a satellite communications environment.


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