Job overview

Job summary 6 Months - Cowes ( Hybrid working) - £81.05/h UMB

Key skills

RF engineer, design engineer, electronics

Principal RF Design Engineer – Job description

Position Description: This is a senior technical role relating to the Radio Frequency (RF) aspects of hardware design. The Role Holder will:

• Apply depth and breadth of design expertise and knowledge to generate RF design solutions for both new products and technology insertions into legacy products.
• Be capable of generating detailed designs from concept to completion and addressing a range of complex engineering issues.
• Typically act as an engineering, technical, or design authority for a Line Replacement Unit or sub-system.

Core duties

• Detailed RF circuit design including component selection, evaluation, simulation, schematic capture, and preparing guidance for PCB design teams.
• Electromagnetic simulation and analysis.
• Specification of bespoke procured hardware.
• Design verification using a combination of simulation, analysis, and test techniques including support to EMC test houses and customer installations.
• Integration activities in a complex equipment environment.
• Generates design documentation and technical reports. Vets documentation generated by others.
• Interfacing with related disciplines including systems engineering, mechanical/thermal engineering, Integrated Logistics Support, Safety, Product Data Management, and manufacturing areas.
• Adherence to Engineering Lifecycle and conducting progress, peer, and design reviews.
• Contribute to bids, proposals, and estimates.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance on RF engineering matters.
• Develops, promotes and shares new technologies for implementation across businesses and programme(s).
• May lead a team of engineers including line management responsibility.

The role holder will have

• A degree in Electronic Engineering or strongly related subject.
• Substantial experience of generating component level designs for introduction into volume production.
• Substantial experience of developing firmware.
• Previous experience of operating in a defence or high safety integrity environment.
• Substantial experience of design proving, integration, and defect resolution.
• Substantial experience of gathering of evidence to support acceptance, fitness for purpose, legislative requirements, and safety.

Role responsibilities

• Requires an understanding of how activities of own teams interrelates and interacts with other functional areas aligned to the same discipline and project.
• Understands in detail the technical specification aligned to the functional area of activity.
• Requires a limited understanding of the external environment.

Leadership

• Provides advice and guidance to others within the same team or same discipline area.
• Within the team, project or discipline is recognised by others as a source of authoritative knowledge and is sought out for advice & mentoring.

Problem Solving

• The role holder performs analysis, evaluation and resolution of complex engineering issues and specifications.
• Developing innovative and creative solutions to challenging engineering problems and issues.

Nature of Impact

• The role holder is accountable for the quality and delivery of own work schedule. The job has a direct impact on the quality of the overall solution provided by the team.

Area of Impact

• The role holder has an impact on the activities and effectiveness of developments associated with own team and engineering solution.

Interpersonal Skills

• Requires strong communication, diplomacy and interpersonal skills. Typically communication will be internally focused but may include limited communication and interface with external contacts and customers.
• Is required to influence, guide and convince others to adopt a particular course of action.

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