[Hiring] Lead Wireless Engineer @General Dynamics Information Technology

Role Description

The Wireless Engineer Lead provides technical leadership, oversight, and quality governance for all wireless (WiFi) engineering, design, survey, and installation activities across global Air Force and Space Force modernization sites. This role is responsible for coordinating wireless engineering tasks, ensuring design accuracy, validating survey data, and guiding implementation teams through installation, configuration, and optimization of the wireless infrastructure. The Wireless Engineer Lead oversees wireless engineers, survey technicians, and subcontractor wireless resources to ensure the resulting wireless network meets performance, coverage, security, and DoD compliance requirements.

• Provide on-site and remote leadership for wireless engineering teams, including wireless engineers, wireless survey technicians, wireless installers, and subcontractor personnel.
• Oversee end-to-end wireless lifecycle activities: predictive design, active/passive surveys, validation surveys, installation, configuration, tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Ensure all wireless designs and implementation activities comply with DoD, Air Force, Space Force, and industry standards including TIA/EIA, UFC, I3A, DoD WiFi security requirements, and OEM best practices.
• Review, validate, and approve predictive wireless designs, heatmaps, channel plans, AP placement, and performance modeling.
• Manage and validate survey data (active, passive, and sensor-based) for accuracy, completeness, and adherence to program-specific survey guidelines.
• Coordinate with the Site Implementation Lead on scheduling, resource management, risk identification, and daily task execution.
• Provide SME-level support for wireless system architecture, wireless optimization, performance tuning, and interference mitigation.
• Collaborate with network engineers to ensure proper integration of wireless LAN controller (WLC) configurations with switching, routing, authentication, and security infrastructures.
• Oversee quality assurance by inspecting installed APs, cabling, labeling, mounting, and wireless system configurations.
• Ensure accurate documentation including RF designs, survey reports, as builts, configuration files, and post-install validation.
• Support troubleshooting and root cause analysis for wireless performance, coverage, security, and spectrum issues.
• Coordinate with base communications teams, cybersecurity personnel, and Government stakeholders on wireless design and deployment requirements.
• Develop status reports, contribute to briefings, and support weekly project meetings and stakeholder engagements.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in wireless network engineering, WLAN design, wireless survey, or enterprise wireless deployment.
• BS degree or additional years of experience in lieu of degree.
• Experience leading wireless engineering or installation teams in complex environments (DoD, federal, campus, or large scale enterprise preferred).
• Strong hands-on experience with predictive and validation wireless survey tools (Ekahau, Hamina, iBwave, or similar).
• Strong familiarity with TIA/EIA wireless-relevant standards and cabling/pathway requirements.
• Understanding of RF fundamentals, antenna types, power levels, interference sources, and spectrum analysis.
• Experience integrating wireless systems into enterprise authentication and network security frameworks.
• Experience managing subcontractor and field technicians in installation and survey operations.
• Experience supporting modernization, upgrade, or large-scale deployment projects.
• Active Secret clearance.

Requirements

• DoD or AF/SF network modernization experience preferred.
• Direct experience with Cisco or Aruba/HPE wireless infrastructure.
• Experience conducting wireless validation surveys on secure or classified networks.
• Experience with wired/wireless convergence, network access control, or policy driven wireless architectures.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages.
• 401K with company match.
• Competitive pay and paid time off.
• Full flex work weeks where possible.
• Paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
• 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for vacations, personal business, and illness.
• 10 paid holidays per year.
• Paid Family Leave program providing up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
• Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.