First Military Recruitment are currently seeking a Senior RF Engineer on behalf of one of our clients.
You will be responsible for significant work packages of RF/Microwave module development, test and support as well as antenna design, modelling and requirements.
Our client encourages applications from ex-military personnel however all candidates will be given due consideration.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Proactively lead antenna and RF equipment development, via internal or sub-contracted work packages.
- Maintain antenna and RF designs for product Improvements and obsolescence management.
- Oversee derivation of requirements, specifications and their verification & validation.
- Provide technical support to supply chain, quality, suppliers and customers.
- Support external antenna and RF designs and maintain antenna / RF production tests.
- Support RF module manufacture – responding to technical issues, undertaking trend analysis and root cause analysis.
- Ensure that engineering procedures are correctly followed and the quality is maintained through design and manufacture.
- Generate estimates, plan and generally manage small work packages.
- Ensure adequate documentation is maintained.
- Any other tasks associated with this role.
- The job holder will be expected to comply with any reasonable operational instruction or procedures relating to company policies, reporting and controls.
- Section 7 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 provides a duty on every employee, while at work, to take reasonable care for the health and safety of themselves and of other persons who may be affected by their acts or omissions at work.
- Cooperate with their employer so far as is necessary to enable their duties to be complied with including the appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE).
Skills and Qualifications
- PCB design at microwave frequencies - comfortable with manipulating schematics and defining / reviewing required layout.
- RF component selection; knowledge of high power RF amplifier, low noise amplifiers, limiters, circulators, filters, mixers and phase locked loop usage.
- Familiarity with RF test equipment (e.g. spectrum analysers, vector network analysers).
- Antenna theory and design and test including array antennas, including slotted array and printed antennas.
- Design for test and design for manufacture.
- Experience of a production environment (e.g. good understanding of processes such as SMT).
- Self-motivated and enjoys working within a team.
- Good command of written and verbal English.
- Familiar with Altium PCB design software.
- Familiar with Altair RF and antenna design software.
- Working knowledge of radar or closely related applications.
- Experience of any of the following:
- Knowledge of digital electronics or power supply design.
- Experience of requirements management and/or systems engineering disciplines.
- Test automation (e.g. through MATLAB or Python).
- EMC.
- Regulatory compliance (e.g. FCC, ITU or ETSI requirements).
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