RF Design Engineer required, ideally Senior level to work on defence, military and avionics communications for long range real time video new product design and development. You will join a successful RF and Hardware Design team and work across the full product lifecycle from requirements through design, test, release and support of RF systems.

Requirements

British citizen eligible for security clearance

Radio Frequency System Architecture

RF Simulation

Altium Electronics Schematic capture, PCB Layout and Footprint or symbol Creation

Real time long range data link knowledge

High resolution video transfer understanding.

RF inhibitor exposure.

Bachelors or Masters degree in Engineering or related subject.

Role

RF Design for New Product Introduction or NPI and the evolution of existing world class RF systems for defence and aviation.

RF System Architecture exploiting the latest RF components and technologies.

RF Simulation using tools such as LabVIEW.

Schematic capture and PCB Design Layout in Altium.

Linear high power wide band RF amplifiers up to 200 Watts using for example GaN or LDMOS.

RF filter design.

Radio Transmitter and Receiver Design.

LNA, Down converter and Upconverter design.

Antenna design.

Use of oscilloscopes, analysers and signal generators.

Cadence AWR Microwave Office.

Ansys HFSS.

Switch mode PSUs, embedded circuitry, glue logic, analogue electronics and EMC circuitry