Lead System Engineer at Insight Global
North Charleston, SC
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Jul 28, 2026
North Charleston, SC
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior RF Systems Engineer role supporting Navy communication systems, serving as the final technical authority on a program team. Day-to-day work spans RF signal chain design, link budget analysis, interference root-cause analysis, and hands-on RF test equipment use during shipboard or field events. The role suits an experienced engineer with deep RF and systems engineering backgrounds and an active TS/SCI clearance.
Senior level · 12+ years · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $119,144 (middle half $81,115–$160,963).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
Location is not specified in the posting; no CBSA or state could be determined. The role involves on-site Navy shipboard/field testing events, suggesting a coastal or naval installation area, but no city is stated.
The posting lists 'C+' which appears to be a formatting artifact for 'C++'; it has been captured as C++.
Python and MATLAB appear both in the requirements section (as a toolset proficiency requirement) and in the job description narrative; they are listed as interchangeable alternatives under a single required skill.
RF test equipment (spectrum analyzers, power meters, network analyzers, oscilloscopes) is listed twice in the requirements section — this appears to be a copy-paste duplication; captured once.
Power meters are part of the RF test equipment list but were not broken out as a separate skill since the posting groups them under the same requirement as the other instruments already captured.
SOSA, CMOSS, and MOSA open-architecture standards, as well as MBSE and project management tools, appear under the requirements section but are framed with 'experience with' language that reads as preferred/contextual rather than a hard gate; marked as preferred accordingly.
TS/SCI clearance is explicitly required ('TSSCI' appears under Travel Requirements, which is the standard Insight Global posting location for clearance requirements).
SOC classification is challenging: this is primarily an RF/systems engineering role, not a pure software or IT occupation. 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is the closest available code; 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts) is the runner-up given the systems engineering and requirements analysis emphasis.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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