Principal Radio Frequency Engineer

JR United Kingdom; St. Neots; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Principal RF Test Engineer to lead a dynamic team at a state-of-the-art facility in St Neots. This role involves planning and supporting domestic and international trials, ensuring successful integration of new capabilities, and acting as the Subject Matter Expert for the project. You will nurture junior engineers while managing a production laboratory, all within a supportive culture prioritizing employee wellbeing. If you are passionate about technology and eager to make a significant impact, this is an exciting opportunity for you.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance scheme

Share Save scheme

Electric/Hybrid Car leasing scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience creating test scripts/programs in LabView, Python, or MATLAB.
• Understanding of synthetic testing environments and RF/EO/IR systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small dynamic team in setting up and operating a synthetic test laboratory.
• Act as the primary technical contact for customers during trials.

Skills

LabView

Python

MATLAB

Technical management

Mentoring & coaching

Agile project management

Education

STEM Degree

Extensive relevant experience

Tools

Spectrum Analysers

Signal Generators

Oscilloscopes

Job description

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MASS

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st neots, United Kingdom

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Posted:

05.05.2025

Expiry Date:

19.06.2025

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Job Description:

Principal RF Test Engineer – St Neots (PE19) -Permanent

• 25 days annual leave inclusive of up to 3 days Christmas shut-down
• Buy or sell up to 5 days’ annual leave
• Two pension schemes to choose from
• Private Medical Insurance + discounts for additional family members
• Life Assurance scheme up to 4 x salary
• Share Save scheme
• Electric/Hybrid Car leasing scheme
• Cycle to work scheme

Come and join our expanding Electronic Warfare Operations Support Group (EWOS) which is made up of 60+ electronic warfare specialists. From all manner of backgrounds, our engineers, scientists, and ex-military personnel combine their experience to help our customers achieve the true operational potential and help keep their people and platforms safe.

We are building a new team that you will lead at a state-of-the-art test and evaluation facility in Cambridgeshire.

You will be the primary technical contact customers will liaise with when planning trials.

You will help plan and support domestic and international trials, while working with both present and future technology. You will be responsible for leading the development of the laboratory, ensuring integration of new capabilities, assets and test equipment is successful and controlled.

Working autonomously with unprecedented access to the customer, you will be crucial to ensure that deployment, verification, and validation are successful. You will develop into the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the project facility acting as the main point of contact for stakeholder queries.

The invaluable experience you’ll bring, to help us achieve more:

Joining a large project at the initial stages, you will lead a small dynamic team in the setup, operation, scheduling and development of the synthetic test laboratory to achieve key stakeholder milestones.

This will mean you will be expected to bring your experience to nurture and coach junior team members to bring out their full potential.

• Experience creating test scripts/programs (e.g. LabView, Python, MATLAB).
• Understanding of synthetic testing environments.
• Experience integrating and calibrating hardware and software models into a laboratory environment.
• Operation of hardware models through GUIs (understanding mission objectives for each model).
• Technical management of a production laboratory (logistics, procedures, compliance)
• Leading and managing a small team of engineers.
• STEM Degree or extensive relevant experience.
• Experience managing both analogue and digital interfaces between electronic components (RF/EO/Data).
• Use of laboratory equipment (Spectrum Analysers, Signal Generators & Oscilloscopes).
• Understanding of RF/EO/IR systems and sensors.
• Version controlling hardware and software components.
• Mentoring & coaching of junior engineers.
• Experience working on agile projects.

Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. Our people are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programmes and policies that support individuals including, mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive employee assistance programme

Due to the highly secure nature of the projects that you will be involved with, you must be:

• A UK National and eligible to work in the UK
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a UK Government DV-level security clearance

Apply today to see how working for MASS could work for you!