Sr Research Engineer-Project Principal Investigator - RF

Responsibilities

• Act as project Principal Investigator.
• Develop new concepts and marketing and proposal material for new RF systems for government and commercial clients.
• Develop new business by interfacing with clients and leading proposal efforts.
• Work with an interdisciplinary team to design, develop, and test RF systems, including transmitters, receivers, and antennas spanning high frequency (HF) to W-band (100 GHz) with minimal oversight.
• Modeling of RF systems using industry-standard design tools.
• Collaborate with engineers across different domains, including mechanical, optical, digital.
• Documentation of system designs and schematics, test plans and procedures, and hardware development and test software.
• Participation in field experiments and data collections.

Qualifications

• PhD with 5+ years of related experience OR MS with 10+ years of related experience.
• Area of study - Electrical Engineering.
• U.S. Citizenship with ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance required.
• Knowledge of and experience with RF system design and modeling, including: radar sensitivity and resolution, RF link budgets.
• Ability to lead and manage programs, including: technical solution development and management of execution, development of schedules and budgets, resource allocation, and dependencies.
• Proficiency in use of RF laboratory test equipment, including: spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, oscilloscopes, RF signal sources.
• Ability to prepare and present technical content in a professional manner to customers and coworkers.
• Ability to support occasional travel associated with meetings and/or data collections.

Desired Skills

• System-level analysis and architecture development of RF systems, including: system and subsystem requirements generation, system specification, and trade studies.
• Experience maturing prototype designs (TRL 4-6) to operational systems (TRL 7-9).
• Experience with business development and proposal writing.
• RF printed circuit board design and debug.
• Knowledge of Altium software is a plus.
• Electromagnetic, antenna and RF circuit modeling using industry-standard software.
• Familiarity with Ansys HFSS are Keysight Genesys are pluses.
• Phased array antenna systems: design, modeling, fabrication, testing.
• Hardware integration and testing.
• Experience with Matlab and/or Python; familiarity with Linux.