Senior RF Engineer

The role

You will architect, design, implement, and test RF hardware systems for counter sensing systems. This role involves performing performance trade studies, conducting simulations, and executing over-the-air system tests.

What you will do

• Architect, design, implement, and test RF hardware systems
• Collaborate to quantify goals, system performance objectives, requirements, metrics, dependencies, and risks
• Design, simulate and test RF hardware systems
• Perform performance trade studies and analyses of proposed hardware architectures
• Conduct performance analysis through simulations and real-world testing
• Build, perform bench-top unit test, integrate, calibrate, and demonstrate/document system performance
• Work with signal processing team on sensing system test concept and execution methods
• Plan and implement over-the-air system tests and demonstrations
• Review system effectiveness and identify opportunities to advance subsystems
• Prepare documentation including design specifications, drawings, test plans, and reports

Required qualifications

• Ability to obtain a Top Secret (TS) security clearance
• U.S. citizenship is required by U.S. Government
• BS in Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical discipline
• 5 + years experience working with RF components and subsystems, including T/R modules, rotary joints, pedestal, filters, radiating structures, isolators, amplifiers, cables, ADC/DAC, etc
• Design experience in RF systems, subsystems, and/or component analysis
• Experienced in RF component/subsystem/system test and measurement equipment and techniques
• Proficiency in MATLAB and/or Python and/or other higher-level languages
• Strong Mathematical, troubleshooting, written, and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience integrating hardware and software
• Software development and or experience integrating FPGA’s
• Active Secret or TS/SCI Clearance
• Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical discipline
• Experience with RF systems engineering and technologies in sensing and electronic warfare applications
• Prior design experiences in Antennas
• Prior design experiences in RF Printed Circuit Boards
• Prior design experiences in RF Integrated Circuits
• Prior design experiences in Transceiver building blocks

About the company

STR is a growing technology company specializing in advanced research and development for defense, intelligence, and national security. They have locations near Boston, MA, Arlington, VA, near Dayton, OH, Melbourne, FL, Carlsbad, CA, Atlanta, GA, and Denver, CO.