Three days per week working onsite and two days working from home. 9/80 schedule off every other Friday.
Industry: Aerospace / Aviation / Defense
Job Category: Engineering – RF / Wireless
Job Description:
The company seeks a self-motivated Lead RF/Microwave electrical engineer to join our RF Design team as a leader in delivering mission-critical RF systems solutions for various customers in Phoenix, Arizona, or St. Petersburg, FL. The Lead RF Electrical Engineer is the engineering focal and owner for all RF/microwave electrical design technical aspects. He/She provides the daily Leadership for the technical activities to engineering team members that are also supporting the product line. The engineer creates RF designs for new products and helps resolve current production and customer issues.
Essential Functions:
Good verbal, written communication and excellent analytical skills are essential for this position.
Ability to work independently and direct and coordinate the work of multi-disciplinary engineering teams to ensure the successful development of RF systems and assemblies.
Derive RF hardware requirements from system-level specifications.
Support the development of communication system architectures.
Perform RF/analog circuit design and hardware engineering from the component level up to entire communication systems.
Responsible for the RF and High frequency/microwave detailed design, analysis, development, and hardware testing.
Participate in the proposal process for programs with RF requirements by estimating tasks, identifying risk, and planning development.
Conduct and participate in internal and external system design reviews.
Present concepts, designs, and results to program management and company customers.
Lead or work in conjunction with mechanical, systems, and software engineering to meet challenging performance requirements.
Support internal peer design reviews, design verification testing of engineering units, and oversight of design through production.
Develop methods for modifying systems to include new RF and wireless capabilities.
Document current RF development and sustaining process and create a plan for continuous improvement.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of nine years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience.
Candidate must have an academic background in electromagnetic (EM) and RF/microwave theory and electronic warfare (EW) knowledge.
Preferred Additional Skills:
Experience designing RF CCA’s operating at frequencies ranging from UHF through E-band. Design activities will include frequency synthesizers, Up/down converters, front-end electronics, and other RF electronics for various antenna tracking techniques.
Experience with 3-D and/or 2.5-D RF modelings tools such as CST Microwave Studio, Ansoft HFSS, AWR Microwave Office, or ADS is a plus.
Understanding of critical performance characteristics of passive and active RF components such as Amplifiers, Oscillators, Attenuators, Mixers, and Filters. Understanding how these characteristics relate to a communication system’s performance is a plus.
Working understanding and knowledge of S-parameters (matching networks, cascade analysis, …), Gain budget analysis (Gain, NF, Linearity, Noise power, …), and Filtering (types, bandwidth, implementations, …).
A strong understanding of noise figure/noise temperature (Eb/No, BER vs. noise, receiver sensitivity, and expected value and variance), temperature effects, interconnection (standard and non-standard impedances), and isolation requirements.
Security Clearance Required: No
Visa Candidate Considered: No
Job Type: Full Time