{"id":244956,"date":"2026-10-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ic-resources.com\/jobs\/lead-radar-systems-engineer-532579\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T18:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:14:23","slug":"lead-radar-systems-engineer-532579","status":"publish","type":"jobs","link":"https:\/\/ic-resources.com\/us\/jobs\/lead-radar-systems-engineer-532579\/","title":{"rendered":"Lead Radar Systems Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Our client is looking for a Lead Radar Systems Engineer based just south of Cambridge, combining hands-on technical work with responsibility for radar architecture, project delivery and the development of its radar capability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Our client is an engineering consultancy developing bespoke RF and sensing systems. Its wider radar work includes compact millimetre-wave sensing for detection and navigation applications, where performance must be balanced against practical constraints on size, weight and power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">You\u2019ll help turn customer challenges into workable radar systems, including situations where the requirements need defining before an architecture can be selected. The work spans initial concepts, performance modelling and RF architecture through to demonstration and deployment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">As Lead Radar Systems Engineer, you\u2019ll assess trade-offs between detection range, resolution, sensitivity and clutter performance, alongside cost, technical risk and implementation complexity. Working with RF, electronics, signal processing, software and systems engineers, you\u2019ll guide the technical decisions that determine how the complete system performs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">You\u2019ll also work directly with customers, shape proposals and project scope, mentor engineers and contribute to technology roadmaps and recruitment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">The key requirements are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Extensive industrial experience developing bespoke radar systems<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Strong radar architecture and performance modelling expertise, with depth across relevant areas such as pulsed radar, FMCW or SAR\/radar imaging<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">A practical understanding of RF transceivers, antennas, propagation and microwave hardware<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering delivery, capturing requirements and planning verification and validation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Confidence explaining technical decisions to customers and developing other engineers<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">The appeal is the combination of technical ownership, customer involvement and influence over future engineering capability, while remaining closely involved in the engineering itself. Our client also supports professional development and career progression.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">The role requires UK SC \/ UKEO clearance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">For more information about this Lead Radar Systems Engineer opportunity, please contact Zac Taylor at IC Resources.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our client is looking for a Lead Radar Systems Engineer based just south of Cambridge, combining hands-on technical work with responsibility for radar architecture, project delivery and the development of its radar capability. Our client is an engineering consultancy developing bespoke RF and sensing systems. 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