RF Design Engineer (Senior)

About the role

Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) seeks a senior RF Design Engineer to join our Electrical Engineering Capability Team in Huntsville, AL.

Responsibilities

• Translate electrical requirements into system and hardware architectures, detailed interface specifications, and build/test plans.
• Create and release engineering drawings, schematics, and PCB layouts to support fabrication and integration.
• Perform circuit analysis, simulation, and troubleshooting using tools such as PSpice, LTSpice, Simplis, or equivalent.
• Develop and execute verification and validation tests in the lab using oscilloscopes, DMMs, spectrum analyzers, power supplies, and other test equipment; analyze results and iterate designs.
• Research and evaluate emerging technologies and components; make recommendations for design improvements and technology investments to meet program needs.
• Produce clear technical documentation, design reviews, and test reports to support program milestones and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, reliability, and sustainment teams to ensure producibility, testability, and maintainability of designs.
• Support configuration management and change control activities; ensure designs meet applicable standards and requirements.

Requirements

• An interim or final U.S. Secret clearance Post Start for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship.
• 5+ years of related work experience.
• Experience with RF measurements and performing RF gain, accuracy, and repeatability signal budget analysis for complex RF systems.
• RF measurements include amplifier performance, intermodulation distortion, phase noise, spurious measurement test techniques, and group delay.
• Electronics design experience.
• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (with a focus in Electrical, Mechanical or Aeronautical), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in electrical engineering or computer engineering.
• Years of related experience: 5+ for levels 4 or 5.
• RF design experience.
• Circuit design, integrated circuit design, analog circuit design, mixed-signal IC Design.
• SME of electrical design with proven previous design experience.
• Hands-on experience using lab equipment such as oscilloscope, multimeter, DMM, spectrum analyzer, power supply, …
• Simulation software experience such as MATLAB, PSpice, LTSpice, Simplis, or similar.
• Schematic capture, Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Design experience with Altium, Mentor Graphics Siemens, or other drafting CAD tools.
• Active Security Clearance.