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# Radar Product Lead

- **Company:** ADASTRA DESIGNS, INCORPORATED
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Link 16, Software Requirements Analysis, Subsystems
- **Published:** October 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/affb230d-a82a-4ff5-80cc-786c495bda7b/radar-product-lead

## About the Role

* BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Physics, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience
 * 8 - 15 years of relevant radar industry experience at a defense prime, radar house, or government or research organization
 * Experience working at the system or program level, beyond a single component or subsystem
 * Experience writing or owning a radar specification (SRD, PRD, or system spec), including derived requirements and a verification matrix
 * Experience defining target sets, coverage volumes, and thresholds vs. objectives directly with a customer or program office
 * Experience running trade studies and turning results into requirement or design decisions
 * Ability to translate field and test results into requirement changes and roadmap decisions
 * Strong technical depth in radar performance (detection budgets, Pd/Pfa, track accuracy), paired with the ability to lead requirements reviews with customers
 * Ability to trace requirements back to mission needs and distinguish thresholds from objectives
 * Ability to collaborate across R&D, hardware, software, and customer-facing teams
 * Strong technical writing and communication skills, from requirements documents to customer briefings

Preferred Experience

 * Passive radar experience is a plus (passive coherent location, multistatic, illuminators of opportunity), including familiarity with the competitive landscape
 * Experience with mobile, expeditionary, or counter-UAS radar programs
 * Familiarity with how radars are evaluated and acquired (KPPs/KSAs, CDD/CPD, JCIDS, OTA milestones, DT/OT criteria)
 * Exposure to C2 integration (IBCS, FAAD C2, Link 16, JADC2)
 * Direct work with Army AMD, Air Force, NORTHCOM, MDA, CBP, or allied equivalents
 * Background as a radar product manager, requirements lead, systems or mission engineer, program engineer or technical program manager, capture or solutions architect, or IAMD requirements officer
 * Active or prior security clearance
 * Comfortable with shifting requirements in an early-stage environment, with interest in building the product function as the team scales

## Description

Our client is seeking a Radar Product Lead to define what their novel radar system needs to do, and for whom.

This role owns the translation from customer mission to buildable requirements, including coverage, detection range, target classes, update rates, track accuracy, false-alarm limits, latency to C2, and siting constraints.

This is a highly technical, customer-facing role built around requirements ownership and product definition. You will know the difference between a fieldable spec and a wish list, and be able to explain where every requirement comes from.

You will work closely with the company's Head of Radar, who leads the science and R&D. Once a customer funds a proposal, you will break the architecture and CONOPS into product definitions and requirements the engineering team can build to, working alongside engineers every day and keeping R&D, engineering, and customers speaking the same language.

Responsibilities

 * Translate customer missions (air surveillance, counter-UAS, cruise missile defense, homeland air defense) into clear, buildable radar requirements
 * Define target sets and performance thresholds vs. objectives with customers, knowing where there's room to trade and where there isn't
 * Break funded proposals, architectures, and CONOPS into product definitions the engineering team can build to
 * Own the system requirements document, including requirements flow-down, derived requirements, and the verification matrix
 * Run trade studies (coverage vs. cost, node count vs. accuracy, update rate vs. compute) and turn the results into clear recommendations
 * Scope product configurations of the core antenna platform (tiled, vehicle-mounted, networked) for different missions and customers
 * Work directly with operators, program offices, and customers to run requirements reviews and bring the voice of the customer back to the team
 * Shape requirements beyond the sensor: software, reliability, C2 integration, servicing, and deployment
 * Turn field test results into requirement changes and roadmap decisions
 * Partner daily with engineering and the Head of Radar to keep R&D, engineering, and customer needs aligned