Sr. RF / Microwave Engineer

Job Summary: 

Our client in San Dimas, CA is looking for a Sr. RF/Microwave Engineer. This is a Direct Hire position.

Design of new ground-based and airborne microwave and millimeter-wave BUCs and transceivers.

The scope of this activity includes

• Product definition: requirements, functions and features, specification, and design objective.
• Configurational, Preliminary, and Detailed Design activities.
• Oversight of creation of test plans and procedures
• Oversight and participation in integration, test, and qualification of new products and product upgrade
• Evaluate customer requirements and generate internal specifications for BUCs and transceivers.
• Support business development activities through analysis of customer and market requirements and comparison against company capabilities.
• Recommend the development of new capabilities in support of market and customer needs.
• Support integration and test of products.

• Support sustaining engineering activities.

   

Qualifications

• B.S. in Engineering or Physics with at least 15 years’ experience in RF/microwave communications systems, component design, test and verification, or M.S. and at least 6 years’ experience.
• RF/microwave circuit design and test.
• Generation of RF/microwave system and “flowdown” specifications based on customer requirements.
• Integration and test of complex RF/Microwave assemblies.
• Knowledge of non-RF aspects of system design, e.g., thermal management, power supplies, monitor and control, at a level sufficient to make sound system-level design decisions.
• Analysis and design of frequency conversion components (upconverters and downconverters).
• Analysis and design of microwave/millimeter-wave Power Amplifiers.
• Analysis and design of linearizers.
• Facility with microwave simulation and design tools such as Microwave Office and HFSS.
• Product definition: requirements, functions and features, specification, and design objectives.
• Configurationally, Preliminary, and Detailed Design activities.
• Oversight of creation of test plans and procedures.
• Oversight and participation in integration, test, and qualification of new products and product upgrades.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a technical team including non-RF technical personnel.
• Familiarity with qualification standards such as DO-160, DO-178, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-188-164, and experience with qualifying products to such standards.
•  Familiarity with reliability analysis and methodologies such as MIL-HDBK-217 and RIAC217Plus.
• Familiarity with DO-254 process and methods.
• While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required typing skills.

• Must be able to lift up to 10 pounds.