Position Summary

The client is looking for a Radio Frequency Engineer to develop and execute product testing and integration plans for new or updated products. 

Essential Job Functions

• Evaluate engineering materials including detecting deviations and recommending solutions.  
• Design RF module-based systems, test plans for RF relay systems, and the RF portion of specialized RF/digital board-level solutions.  
• Share design requirements and restrictions of RF systems and related propagation with other design engineers during collaboration efforts.  
• Assist with design, integration, and sustainment of common software elements of Government software-defined radio systems including: common shared libraries, modem signal processing components, command-and-control / tasking systems, front-end components, automated software test, documentation, and prototype software deployment systems. 

Minimum Required Qualifications

• Due to the nature of this position and the information that employees will be required to access; U.S. Citizenship is required.  
• Bachelor's degree in electrical, electronic, or computer engineering; systems engineering; physics; mathematics; telecommunications; or computer science.  
• Must have a total of five (5) years of experience in Radio Frequency (RF), microwave, analog or SDR design.  
• Required Security Clearance: TS/SCI with FS Poly. Potential opportunity for Conditional Certification of Access (CCA).

 

Level 2:

• As part of the five (5) years of experience, at least two (2) years of combined detail design experience in at least two of the following areas of expertise:   
• RF and analog circuit designs implementing low-noise phase-locked-loop circuits and synthesizers, wideband automatic gain control (AGC) circuits, RF switching and control circuits, filters, low-noise high-efficiency power supplies, modulators, demodulators, RF power detection, frequency conversion, adaptive threshold, and low-distortion driver amplifiers.  
• Design, simulation, integration, and sustainment of Software Design Radio (SDR) systems to include modem signal processing components, command-and-control / tasking systems, front-end components, documentation, and prototype software deployment systems.  
• Circuit designs implementing microwave filters, oscillators, synthesizers, switches, and the cost/performance tradeoffs associated with these types of circuits.  
•  Circuit designs implementing transmitters, receivers, amplifiers, or software defined radios (SDRs) or Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) components including antenna design/characterization while using VSWR to understand antenna performance.  
•  Miniaturized, low-power receiver designs ranging in frequencies from High Frequency (HF) to C- Band.  
•  Circuit designs using commercially available technologies for microwave filters, oscillators, synthesizers, and switches.  
• RF link budget and RF system analysis and cost estimate development for prototype and production efforts.  
• EMI requirements development and incorporation which includes filtering and shielding in the design to ensure performance.

Level 3:

• As part of the ten (10) years of experience, at least seven (7) years of combined detail design experience in at least two of the following areas of expertise: 
• RF and analog circuit designs implementing low-noise phase-locked-loop circuits and synthesizers, wideband automatic gain control (AGC) circuits, RF switching and control circuits, filters, low-noise high-efficiency power supplies, modulators, demodulators, RF power detection, frequency conversion, adaptive threshold, and low-distortion driver amplifiers.  
• Design, simulation, integration, and sustainment of Software Design Radio (SDR) systems to include modem signal processing components, command-and-control / tasking systems, front-end components, documentation, and prototype software deployment systems.  
• Circuit designs implementing microwave filters, oscillators, synthesizers, switches, and the cost/performance tradeoffs associated with these types of circuits.  
•  Circuit designs implementing transmitters, receivers, amplifiers, or software-defined radios (SDRs) or Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) components including antenna design/characterization while using VSWR to understand antenna performance.  
•  Miniaturized, low-power receiver designs ranging in frequencies from High Frequency (HF) to C- Band.  
•  Circuit designs using commercially available technologies for microwave filters, oscillators, synthesizers, and switches.  
• RF link budget and RF system analysis and cost estimate development for prototype and production efforts.  
• EMI requirements development and incorporation which includes filtering and shielding in the design to ensure performance.