Senior RF Design Engineer

Recruiter
Anonymous
Location
Marlow
Salary
Competitive
Posted
07 Aug 2018
Closes
04 Sep 2018
Sectors
Engineering, Design
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Senior RF Design Engineer

Our client is a highly successful global company, they design and manufacture active and passive avionics antennas and electronic control systems for military and civil communications, navigation and search and rescue applications. They are looking for an RF Design Engineer. As the Senior RF Design Engineer, you will work on the design, development, test, and release of circuitry for products that require functionality at frequencies typically up to 1GHz, but potentially higher.

The Senior RF Design Engineer shall be responsible for the specification, design, analysis, build and test of new designs. Interaction is required with other development team members, quality assurance and production personnel to ensure the requirements of the complete product life-cycle are met. To this end, the Engineer should possess an understanding of product design and development lifecycle.

Occasional customer interface is required in order to understand needs and relay capabilities.

RF Design Engineer your skills and qualifications will ideally include:

Qualifications and Experience

Degree (preferably higher degree) in electronic engineering, physics or equivalent

Design of RF electronics for products (esp. aerospace and defence)

Breadth of RF design experience

Use of simulation packages (e.g. Microwave Office or ADS)

Practical implementation experience, including DFx and value engineering

Previous experience in a similar role

Core competencies

Strong practical RF design skills (ability to design and make circuitry).

Familiarity with common RF simulation tools such as ADS or Microwave Office

Knowledge of the architecture and theory associated with typical RF circuitry (such as that deployed in receivers / transmitters / modulators / demodulators etc.)

Innovation and initiative

Ability to work alone or as an integrated team member

As the RF Design Engineer your main responsibilities will involve:

Derive system and RF requirements from high level requirements

Architect RF systems

Simulate, design, build and test RF systems

Follow the company's design process to release these to manufacture

Support legacy systems already in manufacture

Peer review colleagues work

Act as lead engineer when allocated to do so on selected new product designs

Ensure that designs are managed to meet internal and external customer requirements and AS9100 standards

Keywords - RF, Design, Radar, Communication, Antenna, Aerospace, avionics, VHF, GPS, DSP, Military, Defence, Navigation Systems, Microwave 1GHz

Salary - Competitive, plus bonus, pension, healthcare, flexi time and large company benefits