REAL TIME CONSULTING (An RTCo Company)—POSITION DESCRIPTION JOB TITLE: Lead RF Electrical Engineer
ABOUT THE JOB: We are seeking a self-motivated Senior RF/Microwave electrical engineer to join our client’s RF Design team to support delivery of mission critical RF systems solutions for various customers. This position is responsible for technical aspects of the RF/microwave electrical design within the Surveillance product line (including ACAS/TCAS, transponder, DME, UAT, and other RF functions). The engineer creates RF designs for new products and helps resolve current production and customer issues.
We are seeking a self-motivated Lead RF/Microwave electrical engineer to join our client’s RF Design team as a leader to deliver mission critical RF systems solutions for various customers. The Lead RF Electrical Engineer is the engineering focal and owner for all technical aspects of the RF/microwave electrical design within the Surveillance product line (including ACAS/TCAS, transponder, DME, UAT, and other RF functions). This position provides daily leadership for technical activities to engineering team members also supporting the Surveillance product line. The engineer creates RF designs for new products and helps resolve current production and customer issues. Essential Functions:
Good verbal, written communication, and excellent analytical skills are essential for this position.
Ability to work independently, as well as direct and coordinate work of multi-disciplinary engineering teams to assure the successful development of RF systems and assemblies.
Derive RF hardware requirements from system level specifications.
Support development of surveillance and communication system architectures.
Perform RF/analog circuit design and hardware engineering from the component level up to entire communication systems.
Responsible for the RF and High frequency/microwave detailed design, analysis, development and testing of hardware.
Participate in the proposal process for programs with RF requirements by estimating tasks, identifying risk and planning development.
Conduct and participate in internal and external system design reviews.
Present concepts, designs, actionable information, and results to program management and customers.
Lead or work in conjunction with mechanical, systems and software engineering to meet challenging performance requirements.
Support internal peer design reviews, design verification testing of engineering units and oversight of design through production.
Develop methods for modifying systems to include new RF and wireless capabilities.
Document current RF development and sustaining process and create a plan for continuous improvement.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering with background in electro-magnetic (EM) and RF/microwave theory.
15+ years of RF Electrical Engineering design experience.
Experience designing RF CCAs operating at frequencies ranging from UHF through E-band, but with focus in L-band. Design activities will include frequency synthesizers, Up/down converters, front-end electronics and other RF electronics.
Understanding critical performance characteristics of passive and active RF components such as Amplifiers, Oscillators, Attenuators, Mixers and Filters. An understanding of how these characteristics relate to a system's performance is a plus.
Working understanding and knowledge of S-parameters (matching networks, cascade analysis, etc.), Gain budget analysis (Gain, NF, Linearity, Noise power, etc.), and Filtering (types, bandwidth, implementations, etc.).
A strong understanding of noise figure/noise temperature (Eb/No, BER vs. noise, receiver sensitivity, and expected value and variance), temperature effects, interconnection (standard and non-standard impedances), and isolation requirements.
Experience with simulation and/or 3D modeling tools such as Microwave Studio, HFSS, Microwave Office, or ADS.
PREFERED SKILLS:
Experience with DO-160 qualification of RF electronics.
Experience with Altium PCB design tool.
ABOUT THE COMPANY:
Real Time Consulting (RTC) exists to partner outstanding engineering talent to support our clients’ success. Unsurpassed service is delivered to our clients by upholding responsibility, teamwork and quality. Our primary commitment is to help our clients. Since 1997, RTC has been protecting and enhancing lives with safe, reliable, innovative solutions, providing full life-cycle design, development and testing of EMBEDDED ENGINEERING SYSTEMS and SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS with Program Management and Consulting Services. Our employees average 20+ years of versatile and accomplished expertise to our clients, driving continuous innovation forward. Employee’s innovative and analytical ideas are cultivated while maintaining the big picture vision in a fast-paced, changing environment. Our corporate values are to Uphold Responsibility, Support People, Promote Teamwork and Deliver Quality!
This position may require exposure to software, source code or technology that is subject to US export control laws and regulations (i.e., International Traffic in Arms Regulations or the Export Administration Regulations). To comply with these requirements, you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Departments of State or Commerce, as applicable. RTCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with RTCo is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
To qualify for all positions with Real Time Companies, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States and should not require now, or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. Please be aware that Real Time Companies does not sponsor employment-based visas. Additionally, certain positions with Real Time Companies that involve work with government entities may have more restrictive employment status requirements, such as U.S. citizenship, based on security clearance requirements or other governmental requirements. Real Time Companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V.