Wireless Network Engineer
Booz Allen · Aberdeen, MD ·
- Employment
- Part time
- Category
- Network engineering
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Salary
- USD 77,600 – 176,000 / year
Designs and prototypes next-gen wireless networks for defense, integrating radios, waveforms, and resilient architectures to support mission-critical communications in contested environments.
The Opportunity:
Sometimes a customer describes a challenge, and the network diagram appears instantly in your mind, along with the thought that you can make it better and build a smarter solution. When you have engineered, integrated, and evaluated advanced wireless network technologies across a variety of military mission environments, you reach a point where you can visualize and create future network capabilities while anticipating the technical hurdles before they appear. You become the wireless networks engineer trusted to turn early concepts into functional prototypes and mission‑ready solutions. You developed expertise through years of hands‑on work with operational and tactical radio and network systems, modern software architectures, and a deep understanding of how applications, transports, waveforms, and mission services operate on both disconnected, degraded, intermittent, and limited (D-DIL) networks and enterprise, resilient, high‑performance networks.
Are you ready to apply your knowledge, skill, and experience to some of the toughest networking challenges in defense? As a wireless networks engineer on our team, you will support concept development, prototype design, and solutions ideation for next‑generation network capabilities. You will oversee research, design, planning, integration, and evaluation of advanced wireless and high‑speed transport technologies by translating customer needs and strategic objectives into actionable architectures and prototype implementations of new and novel solutions. You will conduct in‑depth assessments of customer requirements, perform network modeling and simulation activities, evaluate and optimize performance, and provide technical consulting to define solution requirements to optimize for mission application needs. Your work will help shape how the Department of War evolves and adopts future networking technologies, from exploratory concepts and experimental prototypes to fully integrated operational systems. You will refine technical roadmaps, deliver solution briefs, collaborate with stakeholders, and represent innovative wireless capabilities at demonstrations and technical events. Once you have mastered these responsibilities, the next step is to mentor emerging engineers and help guide the next generation of wireless networking innovators. Work with us and help build the future of advanced network technology in defense for the better.
Join us. The mission will not wait
You Have:
6+ Years of experience designing, integrating, and developing advanced wireless network capabilities using flexible software architectures and commercial off the shelf hardware
Knowledge of how applications, transports, and mission services interact across contested and bandwidth‑limited environments
Knowledge of military radio waveforms, transport, communications planning systems, and mission critical networking systems including interoperability across heterogeneous transports, routing frameworks, tactical‑edge networks, and government mission systems supporting the Department of War
Ability to work in Agile development environments with continuous integration and DevSecOps practices that enable rapid prototyping, iterative refinement, and accelerated delivery of fieldable wireless networking capabilities
Ability to establish trust, communicate effectively, and maintain strong relationships with clients, mission operators, network stakeholders, and technical partners to ensure alignment between operational networking needs and technical designs or capability roadmaps
Ability to travel up to 15% of the time
Secret clearance
Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, or a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field
Nice If You Have:
10+ Years of experience developing modular, service‑based wireless and RF applications using microservices, well‑defined API specifications, and distributed network‑processing frameworks that support scalable, resilient wireless and spectrum‑aware operations
Experience with orchestration and containerized deployments, such as Docker, Kubernetes, or serverless platforms, to rapidly field wireless prototypes, automate scaling of network functions, and ensure reliable delivery of RF and mission‑network services in contested or degraded environments
Experience applying cloud technologies and modern data‑engineering techniques to host, process, and fuse high‑volume wireless, RF, and electromagnetic‑sensing data to support real‑time analytics, adaptive routing, and prototype network capability development
Knowledge of advanced analytics, artificial‑intelligence and machine‑learning workflows, and disciplined MLOps pipelines that enable intelligent spectrum decision making, wireless performance prediction, and dynamic adaptation to RF interference or jamming
Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills for explaining wireless architectures, RF networking concepts, and EW/EMSO‑relevant design decisions, and for delivering capability demonstrations to mission and technical stakeholders
TS/SCI clearance
Master’s degree in Computer Science or a STEM field
CompTIA Security+ certification
Clearance:
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required.
Compensation
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Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $77,600.00 to $176,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.Identity Statement
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Work Model
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