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Period of Work: May-August 2025
Full-Time: 40 hours a week
Location: McLean, VA
In Office Requirement: Hybrid (2-3 days a week onsite)
Clearance Requirement: Will be submitted for U.S. Government Secret
The DODIN Joint Warfighter Capabilities department’s (N242) mission is to enable DoD technology and information superiority through a work program that is focused on providing rapid & resilient cloud capabilities, reimagining the Global DoD Network, and modernizing legacy C2 & communications.
Job Responsibilities:
- RF Spectrum Data Analysis: Assist in processing RF spectrum data from various test events using MATLAB/Python, ensuring completeness and developing metrics and tools for further analysis.
- RF Spectrum and Propagation Modelling: Contribute to the development of propagation and interference models, simulating scenarios to assess the impact on communication systems.
- Documentation and Reporting: Prepare detailed reports and documentation of findings, methodologies, and progress for review by senior engineers and project stakeholders.
Basic Qualifications:
- Must be a student enrolled full-time in an accredited degree-seeking program in Electrical Engineering or a related degree and continue to be enrolled full-time the semester following the internship.
- Sustained excellence in academic performance.
- Experience preparing, analyzing, modeling, and visualizing data with tools such as Python and MATLAB.
- Understanding of SATCOM or RF engineering principles, including link budget analysis, spectrum analysis, and propagation modeling.
- Ability to obtain and maintain secret clearance.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Should be adaptable, collaborative, a self-starter, curious and interested in learning about the sponsor mission and government.
- Experience having applied electrical engineering to an internship or research/lab position.
- Active Secret Clearance.
This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): None
This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s): Secret
Work Location Type: Hybrid
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