About the job
Job ID 2500406-3628
Location AL JUBAIL, Eastern Province, SA
Date Posted 2025-02-05
Category Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory Sys Integration
Schedule Full-time
Shift Day Job
Travel Yes, 10 % of the Time
Minimum Clearance Required Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain None
Potential for Remote Work No
Description
SAIC is seeking a RF Engineer a position located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia that will provide installation and integration support for C4I System racks and components for the Royal Saudi Naval Forces (RSNF). The successful candidate will work within the Technical Support Center responsible for system communications verification and perform RF cabling, terminations and operational testing during installations of systems into RSNF vessels, command centers and training facilities. Candidate will be responsible for engineering documentation changes, maintaining updates to hardware configuration control items (HCCI), system drawings, and bill of materials, cable run sheets, and serial number list. Additional responsibilities
- Demonstrated experience supporting the analysis and evaluation of Radio Frequency (RF) systems.
- Experience conducting Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) surveys before an installation to establish the current EMI baseline.
- Experience with post-installation surveys to determine any EMI changes after equipment installation.
- Experience preparing EMI Summary reports following each survey detailing all EMI findings and recommendations for improvement.
- Work with engineering for system design, software installation and equipment operational testing, and provide solutions for areas that might be in need of improvement.
- When in between segments of the project, work on construction of test cables and preparation for the next segment of the project.
- Review RF quality issues, report on findings, and then update documentation to reflect the approved corrective action.
- Maintain, repair, and perform functional communication circuit checks of Radio (UHF, VHF, HF, VSAT, UHF SATCOM, LINK-11/16), installed on ashore and afloat platforms of the RSNF.
- Use specialized test equipment and software controlled diagnostics to isolate malfunctions.
- Repair systems according to technical orders, manufacturer’s handbooks and local procedures. Accomplish equipment modifications and installation according to engineering change plans.
- Repairs and troubleshooting down to component level to include ESD handling.
- Soldering using a 3M workstation or portable soldering iron. RF and Fiber optic cable termination and testing.
- Provide technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
- Frequent inter-organizational and outside customer contacts.
- Represent organization in providing solutions to difficult technical issues associated with specific projects.
Qualifications
Required Education, Clearance and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree and two (2) years or more experience; or six (6) years of experience with a GED/HS degree.
- ACTIVE SECRET security clearance required.
- System hardware equipment installation, maintenance and repairs.
Desired Qualifications
- Radio (UHF, VHF, HF, VSAT, KVH SATCOM, NTDS/TADIL Data Links), Networking (Cisco IOS), UPS (APC, Clary), GPS, CENTRIXS, GCCS-M/J, ADSI, SY-117G, and RF7800 series radios.
- Repairs and troubleshooting down to component level to include ESD handling.
- Soldering using a 3M workstation or portable soldering iron.
- Familiarity with test and configuration of KG-250 and similar RF communication protection devices
- Fiber optic cable termination and testing.
- Familiarity with installation and configuration capabilities of the following software
- Microsoft Windows (Windows 7/10), Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Visio), AutoCAD, ADSI, CENTRIXS, GCCS-M/J.
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.
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