Overview

Job Title: Senior RF Design Engineer

Location: Northamptonshire

Salary: £60,000 - £72,000 per annum

Hybrid – 3 days onsite and 2 days WFH

Security clearance: British or ability to obtain required security clearance

Company

A highly regarded engineering organization located in Northamptonshire specialising in Defence, Aviation, Security communication technology. They are hiring a brand-new Senior RF Design Engineer to join the dynamic engineering team who design and develop world class products.

Role

The Senior RF Design Engineer will work in a vibrant and rewarding professional engineering environment on RF technologies and will be involved in the full product lifecycle including requirements, design, test, release and support of RF designs.

Key Skill Requirements

• Minimum years of 5 industry experience
• Proficiency in RF circuitry (specialisation not essential but beneficial).
• Familiarity with power amplifier design (prior experience beneficial).
• Knowledge of up converters and down converters.
• Design of linear high power wide band RF amplifiers up to 200 Watts using for example GaN or LDMOS technology
• Design of RF filters
• Transmitter and Receiver Design experience
• LNA, Down-converter and Upconverter design
• Antenna design
• Experience with antenna-related projects.
• Microwave Design Tools - AWR Microwave Office (Cadence), Keysight ADS.
• Antenna Design Tools - Ansys HFS, Feko, CST Suite, EM Pro
• A working knowledge of analogue and digital electronics
• EMC experience
• Familiarity and experience with industry tools such as PCB Design Software and RF simulation tools
• Self-sufficient; capable of checking others' work
• Industry background - Commercial environment, Military background not required

Work Environment

• Team of 5: Embedded Engineer, Product/Mechanical Designers, RF Engineer.
• Quite a lot of solo work.
• Oversight provided by an Engineering/Project Manager responsible for incoming orders.

Benefits

An annual bonus of 3-6% of salary, 25 days holiday (plus the option to buy five additional days via a salary sacrifice scheme), a 5% company pension contribution when employees contribute 5%, life cover, and a 40-hour working week.

How to apply

If you’re interested in the Senior RF Design Engineer role then please apply now with your updated CV or contact Frank Kanjanda at Premier Group at 01212955246 and fkanjanda@pg-rec.com for further information about the role and company.