Senior RF Design Engineer

Description

• Completion and lead of Design Reviews if required.
• Weekly standup meeting to communicate previous weeks achievements and current weeks priorities.
• Design of RF filters
• Verification of designs against Requirement Specifications
• Working together with the Engineering Team to design and create products.
• Collaboration and communication with full engineering team including interacting with other Engineering disciplines to achieve department targets.
• Scoping of new systems and technologies both for feasibility and product design.
• Contribute to department processes and procedures.
• Design of linear high power wide band RF amplifiers up to 200 Watts using for example GaN or LDMOS technology
• Managing of external design houses and resource as required.
• Creation of design pack documentation.
• Attending Project meetings when required.
• Organise and lead technical projects including being the lead of Preliminary, Interim and Critical Design Reviews as dictated by company procedures.
• Mentoring of lower grades assigned to your design function as and when needed.
• Provide task time estimates and risk considerations to the project manager and/or RF and Hardware group manager.

Requirements

• Trouble shooting of hardware and system issues seen from all areas of the business.
• Familiarity and experience with industry tools such as PCB Design Software and RF simulation tools.
• British Citizen or ability to obtain required security clearance (SC).
• Bachelors/Masters degree in Engineering/related subject or equivalent work experience
• Experience with Altium Designer
• A working knowledge of analogue and digital electronics
• Experience of designing for and test/verification MIL-STD’s and DO160.
• Practical experience of PCB prototype testing and rework.
• An understanding and experience of design of products aligned with CommTech’s portfolio
• Ability to produce results under pressure.
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic.
• Self-testing and troubleshooting of your own design and development work.
• Experience of designing electronic circuits and sub-assemblies for use in military or airborne applications.
• Transmitter and Receiver Design experience
• LNA, Down-converter and Upconverter design
• Documentation and Communication including but not limited to;
• Schematic capture, PCB Layout and Footprint/symbol Creation (Altium)
• RF Simulation
• EMC experience.
• Ability to work in a team and interact with other Engineering disciplines.
• Experience with Ansys HFSS
• Electronics experience of switch-mode PSUs, embedded circuitry, glue logic, analogue electronics and EMC circuitry.
• RF Design including but not limited to:
• Experience of test equipment such as oscilloscopes, analysers and signal generators.
• Experience with Cadence AWR Microwave Office
• Established experience in an equivalent role
• Knowledge of the latest RF components and technologies
• System Architecture (RF)

Benefits

• Onsite working including working from home policy (3 office/2 WFH).
• Competitive and performance-based compensation packages and bonus plans
• Educational assistance, leadership development programs, and recognition programs

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance