ASD 4, 5, & 6 - Radio Frequency Engineers and Technicians

at  Australian Signals Directorate ASD

ABOUT OUR TEAM

These roles will be part of teams that will;

• Deliver new capability under the REDSPICE program
• Deliver ASD’s major capability programs and
• Enhancing and modernising existing capabilities

Access Foundations Branch within the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), will deliver cutting edge capabilities to support ASD’s Signals Intelligence and Offensive Cyber Capabilities.
ASD’s Operational Engineering team enables and supports the conduct of intelligence, security and military operations through development and deployment of unique RF, electronic and mechanically engineered solutions, and provision of RF, electronics and mechanical expertise to the intelligence community.
To facilitate this, both areas are seeking to fill specialised positions for Radio Frequency (RF) Engineers and Technicians (at the ASD4, ASD5 & ASD6 level) to design unique RF communications solutions and products enabling the conduct of intelligence, security and military operations.
These positions are part of a team that is involved in end-to-end capability design, development, delivery, and sustainment. We build our unique products using state of the art technologies and techniques across RF hardware, digital signals processing and software defined radio. These positions offer a competitive remuneration package which includes an attractive superannuation component. In addition to remuneration, ASD will provide you with training (both on the job and formal industry training) to help you build new skills and broaden your career.
As ASD continues to grow, in particular under REDSPICE, there may be opportunities to perform these roles in other locations around Australia. Along with this, specific roles may attract additional payments under a skills payment arrangement. ASD is fully supportive of professional and personal development for all candidates.

As a member of a team within Access Foundations, the successful applicant(s) will be involved in the design, development, testing and integration of RF systems and sub-systems to support ASD’s mission. This is achieved using one or more of the following skills:

• Developing, integrating and configuring antennas, and RF sub-systems in hardware or software forms, including software-defined radio (SDR),
• RF design and testing (using antenna theory, propagation theory, system performance optimisation), and
• Integration, testing, and evaluation of system and subsystem components, using industry standard test equipment such as spectrum and logic analysers and channel simulators

THE ROLE

As a member of a team within Access Foundations, the successful applicant(s) will be involved in the design, development, testing and integration of RF systems and sub-systems to support ASD’s mission. This is achieved using one or more of the following skills:

• Developing, integrating and configuring antennas, and RF sub-systems in hardware or software forms, including software-defined radio (SDR),
• RF design and testing (using antenna theory, propagation theory, system performance optimisation), and
• Integration, testing, and evaluation of system and subsystem components, using industry standard test equipment such as spectrum and logic analysers and channel simulators.

For these roles, ASD requires a mix of specialisation and generalisation across the Radio Frequency design and development skill sets. Whether you are a dedicated RF or software engineer with a passion for designing software based RF solutions, or an RF technician with a love of building, testing, fault finding or integrating bespoke and COTS technologies to deliver customers the products they need, these positions offer you an exciting and rewarding career opportunity.

These roles will be part of teams that will;

• Deliver new capability under the REDSPICE program
• Deliver ASD’s major capability programs and
• Enhancing and modernising existing capabilitie