Our client, a large Aerospace and Defence supplier, is looking for a Principal RF Design Engineer to join them on a contract basis at their site in Edinburgh, Luton, or Newcastle.
Due to the nature of the role, applicants must hold British nationality and be eligible to obtain SC Clearance.
This is a 6-month initial contract, likely to extend, with a minimum of 3 days a week onsite. The position offers £87 p/h Umbrella, inside IR35.
This is an exciting opportunity for you as an engineer to bring your skillset and knowledge into our working environment. You will be involved in developing a range of multifunctional RF, PCB, and Module designs using the latest technologies available and enhancing your understanding of key design and manufacture processes.
As an RF/Microwave engineer, you will be responsible for:
1. Full hardware lifecycle for our products: from system concept, through detailed design and prototyping, test and verification, system integration, and support in production.
2. Creating high-quality and robust designs, conducting design reviews for your design, fully documenting and recording your work products, keeping them under configuration management, and providing plans and progress reports.
3. Developing a range of multifunctional RF PCB and Module designs using the latest technologies available.
4. Designing to test, creating test prototypes for design validation, verification of development models, and support for production test.
5. Carrying out all detail design activities from requirements capture to design verification.
6. Ensuring design reviews are completed successfully.
7. Preparing robust manufacturing data packs and providing technical support to sub-contracts and engineering interface with manufacturing.
8. Working closely with Systems, Test, and Electronics engineers to solve real integration problems on advanced systems.
What we need from you:
* Microwave PCB materials & design techniques.
* RF Microwave Sub-System Design.
* Microwave design tools - e.g., AWR, VSS, ADS, Systemvue, Matlab.
* EM 3D and 2D simulation techniques - e.g., CST.
* GaAs/GaN MMIC design and application.
* RF Synthesiser design, using DDS and PLL technologies.
* RF downconverter and digitiser design.
* Design of passive microwave structures.
* Low phase noise design and measurement.
* Non-linear circuit simulation.
* PCB schematic capture tools - e.g., Mentor.
* Lab measurements such as signal generation, spectrum analysis, and vector network analysis.
* Microwave component selection.
* Requirements capture and management.
* Technical report writing.
* Design reviews and lifecycle management.
* Design for manufacture and cost.
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