Raytheon Ti Systems Work Values

Daily Duties at Raytheon Ti Systems:

Systems Engineer, Proposal: Developed specs for the day vision camera integrated into the FLIR (Forward Looking Infrared Radar) system. Utilized data fusion imaging processing technology for the Apache Helicopter. Worked on product development requirements definition & flow-down, allocation and specification plans. Airborne Systems: Algorithms based on target detection, identification, tracking, discrimination, and dissemination. Algorithms based on random processes (Bayesian Belief, Kalman Filter) analyzing and synthesizing legacy data. Documented, improved, and maintained a major system performance parameter, false alarm rate reduction. Successfully modified a design similar to low pass filtering without adversely affecting adjacent algorithms. Computations and design were made simple for real-time processor implementation. Final approved product was applied to the real-time embedded system as well as updating the Algorithm Description Document (ADD) Conducted monthly presentations to the customer and multi-organizational senior management. Signal Processor modeling: Designed a radar signal processor receiver simulation model based on requirements and ASIC design. Model designs were based on “Block Sims” to Verify “Chip Sims.” Performed a bit for bit compare against VHDL ASIC data output. Model accomplishments included: ¨ A model library, which included special custom “C-coded” blocks. ¨ Incorporated a vertical or hierarchical block design to the model simulator similar to high level coding. ¨ Designed and captured special test waveforms like “ramp of impulses” for factory test. ¨ Verified functions like auto-correlation, A to D conversion, over sampling, and pulse compression. ¨ Created a pseudo random noise generator to test memory functionality in the hardware. ¨ Created "round to even" symbolic block (algorithm) to average floating to fixed integer round error. ¨ Analyzed floating point to integer mantissa & exponent conversion errors. Multi-Beam Phased Array Sensor: Successfully analyzed error sensitivity of antenna in receive mode. Created LabVIEW virtual instrument models for our test team library. Characterized antenna performance by synthesizing Gain error sensitivity. Modeled the near field receive mode in the azimuth plane by utilizing transform theory and the total field of a dipole array. The vertical plane was approached by a Monte-Carlo method by others. Became familiar with detailed antenna design considerations such as amplitude patterns, aperture tapering, bandwidth, beam width, gain, and side lobe levels. Software Quality: Reviewed pre-flight and launch software for this special “fire and forget” focal plane array IR targeting system. Reviewed test procedures and witnessed formal testing in accordance with military specs and requirements. Reviewed simulator software and helped develop flight data database.

What they like about Raytheon Ti Systems:

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Tags

Algorithms, Radar Image Processing, Antenna, Simulation Modeling, Systems Engineer, MatLAB

Skills

UNIX, C, Sun Solaris, MS Excel/Power Point, Mat LAB, EM Finite Element, Method of Moments, FDTD, Physical Optics, GTD, PTD, Hercules DRC, LTL, Lab VIEW, SPW (Cadence tools), Visual DSP, Mentor Graphics, Design for Test, Automated Test Equipment, DOORS, SLATE, Nikon Scan (COOLSCAN V), Nikon Capture NX, Corel Paint shop Pro Photo, Corel Draw & Photo Paint 11, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation), DivX tools, H.264, Range measurement techniques – Technology Service Corporation, Computational Electromagnetics – Southeastern Center for Electrical Engineering Education (SCEEE), Radar Cross Section – Naval Post Graduate School, ADA programming – Texas Instruments, Principles of Systems Engineering – Raytheon, Space Mission Analysis and Design – Boeing Commercial Satellites, Satellite Systems Engineering – Boeing Commercial Satellites, Graduate School Subjects: Photonics, Microwaves, Holography & Tomography, EM Waves, Image Processing, Ocean Acoustic Tomography – Perturbation Inversion Methods, Super Resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar, Publications: Beta Testing Electromagnetic Scattering Codes, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Symposium (ACES)

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