| .:: Senior Principal Systems Scientist | 1106 | |||||
Company: | Cubic Defense Applications | Required Education: | PhD | |||
Location: | San Diego, California | Required Experience: | 6+ years | |||
Contact: | Tony Maryfield | Grade: | N/A | |||
Employee Type: | Full Time | Bid opened: | 07/30/2009 | |||
Job Category: | Engineering | Job Type: | Public | |||
| .:: Essential Job Duties: | ||||||
| ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES: Lead the system analysis for optical communication systems, including terrestrial and non-terrestrial applications. The required analyses will include modeling all aspects of the atmospheric channel and communication system, e.g. dust, rain, fog, scintillation, various military battlefield obscurants. The emphasis will require the detail to be commensurate with the objective requirements. Initially, these may be as simple as a spreadsheet link budget, but may lead to a high resolution simulation. These include all known aspects of saturation, linearity, polarization, sunlight impact and filters, coding structures, error checking, FEC, scanning and tracking errors, hand-held human tremor effects, SNR, BER, beam divergence and FOV, NF, and apertures, to name a few. The analyst should have a good understanding of modulating retro-reflectors and implementation into a communication system and the effects of modulation depth, insertion loss, and return beam quality vs. range. Duties include develop coding approaches for FSOC for highest data integrity for the given conditions; develop models to combat atmospheric scintillations and maximize SNR and connectivity; develop optical scanning/tracking systems for hand held optical communications; conduct system test, both in the lab and in the field; analyze data and prepare report. Must be able to work in the electro-optics lab. Must be able to use optical equipment to make accurate measurements and advise any changes/upgrades needed to do so. | ||||||
| .:: Mental/Physical Requirements: | ||||||
| .:: Education/Experience Requirements: | ||||||
| EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: PhD or MS in Mechanical Engineering or Physics with an emphasis in optical system design and packaging. 7 years of experience with a PhD degree and 10 years of experience with an MS degree in industrial design. Experience in digital communications and/or channel coding, with emphasis on algorithms for sequence estimation. Experience with simulation tools including Simulink/Matlab preferred. | ||||||
