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Vadum Inc. is seeking a highly motivated senior radio frequency (RF) and electromagnetics (EM) hardware design engineer with a strong technical background in architecting leading-edge system solutions, developing high-performance circuitry, testing and evaluation, and designing for environmental and manufacturing variations.  This person will play a leading role as a principal investigator in the research and development of novel RF sensors, radars, test and measurement equipment for military applications. The position requires creativity, initiative, analytical thinking, solid organizational abilities, and interpersonal skills to facilitate effective interactions with internal and external customers.

Responsibilities may include:

• Conceptualize, develop, and demonstrate new technologies and capabilities to meet complex DoD needs.
• Take ownership of end-to-end solutions for advanced R&D projects to meet technical, schedule, and cost goals.
• Participate in all phases of development life cycle (requirements, systems and circuit design, integration, evaluation, and support manufacturing transition). 
• Write technical proposals in support of applied research.
• Independently develop technical solutions such as frequency plans, system architectures, frequency synthesis, transceivers, radios, SDRs, antenna, transducers, and power amplifiers with accommodations for mechanical assembly integration.
• Design and simulate circuits; select components; layout and prototype PCBs; assemble, debug, and bench/field test prototypes.
• Operate with broad direction and require minimal supervision. 
• Interact effectively with managers, customers, development partners, and vendors.

Requirements:

• Familiarity with rugged military electronic systems, military applications, or commercial communication systems.
• Track record for transitioning novel ideas and paper designs to proof-of-concept and capability demonstrations.
• Proficiency using analog/RF and EM design tools such as Microwave Office, SPICE, and CST or similar.
• Ability to generate specifications and perform block-and-level system design and power budget analysis.
• Experience with schematic capture and PCB layout, preferably with Mentor Pads.
• Ability to perform bench-level analog/power/RF/microwave bring-up and troubleshooting using analog and RF test equipment.
• Strong understanding of EM physics, knowledge of phenomenological properties, and evaluation techniques for effects analysis.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, initiative, attention-to-detail, highly organized, and personal commitment to quality.
• Ability to work well on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to articulate and explain design strategy and decisions.

Education required:  

Required – MS EE, with 7+ years industry experience

Desired – PhD EE, with 5+ years industry experience

Eligibility:

Vadum Inc. is seeking a highly motivated senior engineer with a strong background in analog, digital, and RF system design as it relates to algorithm development and digital signal processing. This person will play a leading role in the business strategy and development of complex RF sensors, radars, measurement equipment, and electro-mechanical products for military applications. The position requires creativity, initiative, analytical thinking, solid organizational abilities, and interpersonal skills to facilitate effective interactions with internal and external customers.

Responsibilities:

• Use multiple programming languages (MATLAB, Python, C/C++, etc.) to prototype and implement various DSP processing chains and computational algorithms.
• Independently develop signal processing chains to process raw I/Q data and extract parameters of interest.
• Independently define algorithm inputs/outputs and interaction of multiple algorithms to achieve desired output products.
• Independently survey peer-reviewed journals for applicable algorithms to implement, prototype, or modify.
• Participate in all phases of development life cycle (requirements, algorithm prototyping, evaluation, test, and optimization).
• Work in a matrixed team environment to define, lead, and design end-to-end solutions for advanced R&D projects.
• Assist in generating technical proposals and estimates in support of applied research.
• Coordinate aspects of the project to meet technical, schedule, and cost goals.
• Operate with broad direction and require minimal supervision.
• Interact with customers, development partners, and vendors.

Requirements:

• Superior technical knowledge in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Track record for putting systems/products into fielded use.
• Academic background in digital communication, information theory, probability/statistics, estimation/detection, linear algebra, pattern recognition, optimization, image processing, and machine vision. Experience with machine learning/artificial intelligence a plus.
• Familiarity with software defined radio (SDR), modulation schemes, complex baseband, and radar fundamentals.
• Ability to implement digital filters, perform time/frequency analysis, denoising, signal detection, channelization, beamforming, and interpolation/decimation from audio to RF.
• Implementation knowledge a plus (i.e. from prototype code to standalone re-usable software library).
• Experience using GPU acceleration a plus.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, strong initiative, attention-to-detail, highly organized, and personal commitment to quality.
• Ability to work well on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to articulate and explain DSP algorithm design methodology and system design decisions for both internal design documents and external reports or proposals.

Education required:  

Required – BS with 7+ years of relevant experience

Desired – MS with 7+ years relevant experience including production quality software development

Eligibility:

Growth is prompting Vadum to seek a Full-Charge Bookkeeper. The successful candidate will play a key role in the operations of the company. The focus of this role is to support the company by accurately maintaining and reconciling day-to-day financial records to include invoices to customers and cash receipts. The ideal candidate will have experience in government contracting, processing accounts receivable, accounts payable, and payroll. A background in accounting is required for this role.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure financial records are accurately and adequately maintained, including general Ledger and supporting subsidiary ledgers for Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable.
• Ensure compliance with Government / DCAA accounting requirements.
• Investigation, analysis and recommendations to address ad hoc and pop-up financial, accounting, and administrative issues.
• Assist with setting up new projects to capture cost information.
• Make sure payroll and other costs are being accurately allocated for each job.
• Assist with monthly and annual close process.
• Office management support.
• Set up new customer accounts in company’s accounting system
• Reconcile monthly bank and credit card statements.
• Record cash receipts and make bank deposits
• Conduct periodic reconciliations of all accounts to ensure their accuracy
• Maintain an orderly accounting filing system
• Maintain the chart of accounts
• Process payroll in a timely manner
• Backup to Office Manager
• Assist with the preparation for annual financial statement and other government agency audits.
• Assist with other tasks as they arise

Requirements:

• QuickBooks  – intermediate skill level.
• UnaNet-intermediate  skill level
• Monthly financial closing, journal entries and financial statement generation to GAAP.
• Knowledge  of Government Contracting
• Knowledge of FAR/DFAR
• Job cost accounting.
• Troubleshooting.
• Experience working in a small to medium sized technology-based government contractor  or R&D organization.
• Paylocity (payroll processing)

Education:  

• Associates degree in Accounting/Finance
• Government contract training/professional education
• Fundamental knowledge of GAAP
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills

Interpersonal Skills:  

• Analytical thinker
• Detail oriented
• Self-driven
• Excellent communication skills
• Team player
• Dependable

This position requires a Dept. of Defense security clearance and is therefore open only to:

Vadum is seeking a Senior Signal Processing Engineer/Scientist to develop machine learning and complex signal processing algorithms. The individual should be capable of leading efforts or playing a key role in a variety of machine learning and algorithm development for next-generation applications; in radar, communications, and electronic warfare.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the development of innovative detection, estimation and classification algorithms and techniques for advanced applications.
• Develop signal processing algorithms, waveforms and techniques that exploit and optimize radar, radio and EW architectures that take advantage of advanced radio frequency and processing technology.
• Perform concept and performance trade studies and demonstrate developed capabilities for streaming data applications.
• Develop prototype, and test sensor models and signal processing algorithms in detailed high-fidelity simulations written in C/C++, and MATLAB.
• Operate with broad direction and minimal supervision.
• Interact with customers and development partners.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, must be able to communicate and document, prepare and give briefings to customers and development partners.
• Develop and prototype algorithms.
• Knowledge of programming languages (such as C/C++, MATLAB, Python, Simulink).
• Ability to contribute in a team environment to develop creative solutions to technical challenges.
• Experience with digital signal processing, probability theory, stochastic signal processing and machine learning.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Electronic Warfare systems.
• Radar, waveforms, radar signal processing.
• Communication Simulators, Communications Jamming.
• Wireless communication systems.
• Knowledge of Kalman filtering, CNN, Random Forest, Support Vector Machine, Adaptive Neural Networks, Belief Propagation, other machine learning algorithms.

Education Required: BS or above in Engineering, Physics or Mathematics or related

Eligibility:

This position requires a Dept. of Defense security clearance and is therefore open only to:

• United States Citizens

The Department of Defense handles and adjudicates the security clearance process.  Security clearance factors include allegiance to the US, foreign influence, foreign preference, criminal conduct, security violations and drug involvement.

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Vadum is looking for a skilled leader of program teams from concept development through delivery.  We need your experience as our team grows.

As a Program Manager, you will –

• Work with a technical team to help shape customer requirements; contribute to marketing strategy and pursuit of programs; and development of the opportunity pipeline
• Assist in positioning for and capturing opportunities and lead subsequent resulting tasks
• Contribute to the product development strategy of tactical EW analytics, distributed EW, streaming data processing, application of machine learning and artificial intelligence, and early TRL defense technology development
• Coordinate and work with a world-class engineering team and business developers to selectively commercialize Vadum’s technologies

Responsibilities:

• Lead teams of technical and program personnel to execute the customer and Vadum vision for each program within cost, quality, and time constraints
• Build customer relationships to create additional opportunities
• Oversight of employees assigned to programs from technical and administrative perspective, implementing industry best practices to meet contract requirements
• Establish milestones and ensure adherence to master plans and schedules, identifies and manage risks, address program problems, and develops mitigations/solutions
• Presents formal and informal project status/plan briefings to the government and corporate managers through oral and written communications
• Actively participate in program definition and capture for existing and new customers
• Serve as contract representative and be responsible for managing all aspects of the program, including project planning, development and implementation according to cost, schedule, and technical (scope) requirements

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• 3+ years of industry experience in a technical leadership or program management position for defense R&D software programs with experience in supervising personnel, technology assessment, systems design, system analysis, managing multiple technical programs including budgetary responsibility, planning and estimating work loading requirements, acquisition planning, communicating and interfacing with government customers
• Ability to engage key client stakeholders to identify needs, and discuss Vadum capabilities and services
• Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary opportunity capture team in a matrixed organization with a collaborative and a team-centric culture
• Excellent analytical and deep dive skills
• Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, computer science, math, physics or related scientific discipline
• Possession of excellent oral and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Experience with system engineering, machine learning or software architecture and implementation
• Secret clearance preferred
• MA or MS degree preferred

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Vadum Inc. is seeking a highly motivated individual with a technical background in software development, that demonstrates strong personal commitment to quality and initiative to getting the job done. This person must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to articulate and explain design decisions. This person will play a key role in development of machine learning and data fusion applications.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in all phases of the software development life cycle (requirements analysis, high level design, detailed design, coding, unit test, integration, system level test).
• Work in a team environment to design and develop software products
• Develop software system testing procedures, programming, and documentation as required.
• Operate with broad direction and requires minimal supervision.
• Interacting with customers and development partners.
• Coordinating aspects of the project to meet technical.

Skills & Experience desired:

• Experience with programming languages (JAVA, C/ C++, Python/TensorFlow/Scikit-Learn, MATLAB, and ML frameworks)
• Familiarity with streaming data processing frameworks such as Kafka / Spark/ Hadoop is a plus
• Familiarity with Functional Programming concepts and styles a plus.

Education required: BS or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related

Eligibility:

This position requires a Dept. of Defense security clearance and is therefore open only to:

• United States Citizens

The Department of Defense handles and adjudicates the security clearance process. Security clearance factors include allegiance to the US, foreign influence, foreign preference, criminal conduct, security violations and drug involvement.

WE DO NOT ACCEPT RESUMES FROM SEARCH FIRMS

Vadum is seeking a Signal Processing Engineer/Scientist to develop machine learning and complex signal processing algorithms. The individual should be capable of playing a key role in a variety of machine learning and algorithm development for next-generation applications; in radar, communications, and electronic warfare.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the development of innovative detection, estimation and classification algorithms and techniques for advanced applications.
• Develop signal processing algorithms, waveforms and techniques that exploit and optimize radar, radio and EW architectures that take advantage of advanced radio frequency and processing technology.
• Perform concept and performance trade studies and demonstrate developed capabilities for streaming data applications.
• Develop prototype, and test sensor models and signal processing algorithms in detailed high-fidelity simulations written in C/C++, and MATLAB.
• Operate with broad direction and minimal supervision.
• Interact with customers and development partners.

Requirements:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, must be able to communicate and document, prepare and give briefings to Program managers.
• Develop and prototype algorithms.
• Knowledge of programming languages (such as C/C++, MATLAB, Python, Simulink).
• Ability to contribute in a team environment to develop creative solutions to technical challenges.
• Coursework and/or experience with digital signal processing, probability theory, stochastic signal processing and machine learning.

Knowledge of any of the following desired:

• Electronic Warfare systems.
• Radar, waveforms, radar signal processing.
• Communication Simulators, Communications Jamming.
• Wireless communication systems.
• Knowledge of Kalman filtering, CNN, Random Forest, Support Vector Machine, Adaptive Neural Networks, Belief Propagation, other machine learning algorithms.

Education required:  

BS or above in Engineering, Physics or Mathematics or related

Eligibility:

Vadum Inc. is seeking a highly motivated senior engineer with a strong background in analog, digital, and RF system design as it relates to digital signal processing. This person will play a leading role in the strategy and development of complex RF sensors, radars, measurement equipment, and electro-mechanical products for military applications. The position requires creativity, initiative, analytical thinking, solid organizational abilities, and interpersonal skills to facilitate effective interactions with internal and external customers.

Responsibilities:

• Use multiple programming languages (MATLAB, Python, C/C++, etc.) to prototype and implement various DSP algorithms.
• Independently develop signal processing chains starting with selection of ADC and/or DAC and ending with desired information products save to or read from disk.
• Assist with part selection related to front-end noise figure, ADC/DAC dynamic range, bit-depth, sampling rate, and downstream processor/memory resource utilization.
• Participate in all phases of development life cycle (requirements, block diagrams, integration, evaluation, and test activities).
• Work in a matrixed team environment to define, lead, and design end-to-end solutions for advanced R&D projects.
• Assist in generating technical proposals and estimates in support of applied research.
• Coordinate aspects of the project to meet technical, schedule, and cost goals.
• Operate with broad direction and require minimal supervision.
• Interact with customers, development partners, and vendors.

Requirements:

• Superior technical knowledge in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Track record for putting systems/products into fielded use.
• Academic background in digital communication, signal processing, information theory, probability/statistics, estimation/detection, pattern recognition, optimization, image processing, and machine vision. Experience with machine learning/artificial intelligence a plus.
• Familiarity with software defined radio (SDR), modulation schemes, complex baseband, and radar fundamentals.
• Ability to implement digital filters, perform time/frequency analysis, denoising, signal detection, channelization, beamforming, and interpolation/decimation from audio to RF.
• Ability to perform bench-level bring-up and troubleshooting of data acquisition/signal processing chains using analog and RF test equipment.
• Implementation knowledge and/or experience using FPGAs a plus.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, strong initiative, attention-to-detail, highly organized, and personal commitment to quality.
• Ability to work well on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to articulate and explain DSP algorithm design methodology and system design decisions for both internal design documents and external reports or proposals.

Education (Degree(s) in either electrical/computer engineering, physics, or mathematics):  

Required – BS with 10+ years of relevant experience

Desired – MS with 10+ years relevant experience including system development and/or manufacturing interactions

Eligibility:

Vadum is looking for a skilled leader to guide and lead its program management function and teams from concept development through delivery. We need your experience as our team grows.

In addition, as a leader and program manager, you will – 

• Develop a deep understanding of, and help shape, customer requirements; contribute to marketing strategy and pursuit of programs; and development of the opportunity pipeline
• Assist in positioning for and capturing opportunities and lead subsequent resulting tasks
• Contribute to the product development strategy of tactical EW analytics, distributed EW, streaming data processing, application of machine learning and artificial intelligence, and early TRL defense technology development
• Coordinate and work with a world-class engineering team and business developers to selectively commercialize Vadum’s technologies

Responsibilities:

• Build a team of technical and program personnel to execute the customer and Vadum vision for each program within cost, quality, and time constraints
• Build customer relationships to create additional opportunities
• Oversight of employees assigned to programs from technical and administrative perspective, implementing industry best practices to meet contract requirements
• Establish milestones and ensure adherence to master plans and schedules, identifies and manage risks, address program problems, and develops mitigations/solutions
• Presents formal and informal project status/plan briefings to the government and corporate managers through oral and written communications
• Actively participate in program definition and capture for existing and new customers
• Serve as contract representative and be responsible for managing all aspects of the program, including project planning, development and implementation according to cost, schedule, and technical (scope) requirements
• Participate as a senior member of Vadum’s leadership team in growing and achieving its corporate goals in building the capabilities of the company and increasing its long-term value

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• 10+ years of industry experience in a senior leadership position for defense R&D programs with experience in supervising personnel, technology assessment, systems design, system analysis, managing multiple technical programs including budgetary responsibility, planning and estimating work loading requirements, acquisition planning, communicating and interfacing with government customers
• Knowledge of DoD appropriations and requirements processes
• Ability to engage key client stakeholders to identify needs, and discuss Vadum capabilities and services
• Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary opportunity capture team in a matrixed organization with a collaborative and a team-centric culture
• Ability to analyze current market needs and identify viable business development opportunities by understanding a diverse set of corporate capabilities and matching them up with client needs
• Active Secret clearance
• Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, computer science, math, physics or related scientific discipline, or Mathematics

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• 5+ years of experience with tactical Electronic Warfare with any DoD service as an operator, technologist, or program manager
• Experience as senior enlisted, military officer, or GS-14 or higher civilian, including working with DoD organizations supporting research and development (R&D), acquisition & fielding, tactics, technique, and procedure (TTP) development, or test and evaluation (T&E)
• Possession of excellent oral and written communication skills
• TS/SCI clearance preferred
• MA or MS degree preferred
• Hold a PMI certification

WE DO NOT ACCEPT RESUMES FROM SEARCH FIRMS