Principle RF Engineer

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*This role requires you to be based and eligible to work in the UK.*

This company is a global high-tech company and a leading player in Aerospace, Defence and Security. It is one of the biggest suppliers of defence and security equipment to the UK MOD operating from 7 main sites across the UK and employing over 7,500 highly skilled people.

What you’ll do as a Principal RF Engineer:

This is an exciting opportunity for you as an engineer to bring your skillset and knowledge into our working environment. You will be involved in developing a range of multifunctional RF, PCB and Module designs using the latest technologies available and enhancing your understanding of key design and manufacturing processes.

As an RF/Microwave engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Full hardware lifecycle for our products: from system concept, through detailed design and prototyping, test and verification, system integration and support in production.
• Creating high-quality and robust designs, conducting design reviews for your design, fully documenting and recording your work products, keeping them under configuration management and providing plans and progress reports.
• Developing a range of multifunctional RF PCB and Module designs using the latest technologies available and enhancing your understanding of key design and manufacturing processes.
• Designing to test, creating test prototypes for design validation, verification of development models and support for production test.
• Carrying out all detail design activities from requirements capture to design verification.
• Ensuring design reviews are completed successfully.
• Preparing robust manufacturing data packs and providing technical support to sub-contracts and engineering interfaces with manufacturing.
• Working closely with Systems, Test and Electronics engineers you will be solving real integration problems on advanced systems

What we need from you:

• You will ideally have experience in some of the following areas;
• Microwave PCB materials & design techniques.
• RF Microwave Sub-System Design.
• Microwave design tools - e.g. AWR, VSS, ADS, Systemvue, Matlab.
• EM 3D and 2D simulation techniques - e.g. CST.
• GaAs/GaN MMIC design and application
• RF Synthesiser design, using DDS and PLL technologies
• RF downconverter and digitiser design
• Design of passive microwave structures.
• Low phase noise design and measurement
• Non-linear circuit simulation.
• PCB schematic capture tools - e.g. Mentor.
• Lab measurements such as signal generation, spectrum analysis and vector network analysis
• Microwave component selection.
• Requirements capture and management.
• Technical report writing
• Design reviews and lifecycle management
• Design for manufacture and cost.

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You need to be based in the UK, have a valid permit and be SC cleared.