Staff RF Engineer

Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Master’s preferred
• 10+ years of experience with communication systems architecture and design for high reliability, resiliency, redundancy and/or fault tolerance, along with the ability to work collaboratively with other teams to define product requirements, develop specifications and conduct system level test
• Understanding of RF circuit design; including noise figure analysis, frequency synthesis, modulation, AGC, antenna matching, power amplifier biasing, and filtering
• Strong grasp of RF propagation, link budgets, and digital comms (modulation, FEC, spread spectrum, multiple access)
• Hands-on experience integrating and troubleshooting radios on vehicles or platforms
• Working knowledge of EMI/EMC and system-level integration issues (MIL-STD-461/464)
• Proficiency with RF test equipment (VNA, spectrum analyzer, signal generator, oscilloscope) and test automation
• Understanding of hardware evaluation methodologies, including development of test cases/suites, performance monitoring, test automation, and data analysis.
• Understanding of RF propagation and link budget design
• Understanding of EMI and common system level integration issues
• Competence with test equipment such as vector network analyzers, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, thermal chambers, and current-probes.
• Must be able to travel 25% of the time.