RF Design Engineer

NEW CONTRACT OPPORTUNITY AVAILABLE FOR AN RF DESIGN ENGINEER IN SOUTHAMPTON

• Searchability NS&D has a contract opportunity for an RF Design Engineer to work across an exciting range of projects
• Must have active SC Clearance
• £820pd Inside IR35
• For more details please call me on or email

WHAT WILL THE RF DESIGN ENGINEER BE DOING?

• Contribute to and lead the design, development, integration and testing as required by the project within the knowledge and experience required.
• Produce high-quality supporting design documentation.
• Contribute expertise across a broad range of design activities.
• Develop innovative and cutting-edge solutions.
• Undertake engineering design and development activities in time, on budget and in quality.
• Provide timely and accurate estimates of effort to completion, assessing complexity, and identifying risks.
• Engage with other technical experts.
• Provide technical support to the Technical Lead (e.g., risk management, input to customer meetings).
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with each of the stakeholder, within or outside the project team.
• Apply industry best practice for source code control, build, test/troubleshooting (debugging/fault finding), and distribution.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Proven experience in RF system design & development in the HF/VHF band (MHz range).
• Expertise in selecting select COTS for integration into an RF design of HF/VHF system as:
• Power Amplifirer
• RF power switch
• Filter
• LNAs
• Antenna
• Expertise in antennas matching (e.g., impedance, analysis of VSWR, performance optimization for wideband operation)
• Expertise in Power Amplifier design, from 1W through 10kW
• Expertise in RF simulation using AWR Microwave Office
• Expertise in performing Radiation Hazard analysis.
• Expertise in preparing Level Plans
• Expertise using of RF high-power system test equipment (e.g., VNA, spectrum analysers, signal sources, power meter)

Successful applicant must be a Sole British national and must hold active MOD DV Security Clearance.

TO BE CONSIDERED….

Please either apply by clicking online or emailing me directly to - I can make myself available outside of normal working hours to suit from 7am until 10pm. If unavailable, please leave a message and either myself or one of my colleagues will respond. By applying for this role, you express consent for us to process & submit (subject to required skills) your application to our client in conjunction with this vacancy only. Also feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn, just search Shaun Varley. I look forward to hearing from you.

RF DESIGN ENGINEER

KEY SKILLS:

RF DESIGN ENGINEER / RADIO FREQUENCY / ELECTRONIC WARFARE /SIMULATION / COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS / ANTENNA / NATIONAL SECURITY / DEFENCE / GOVERNMENT / SECURITY CLEARED / SECURITY CLEARANCE / SECURITY CHECK / DV CLEARED / DV CLEARANCE