Principal RF Hardware Engineer – Hybrid, Edge Sensing & SDR

Rowden Technologies Ltd.; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid working

Job summary

Rowden Technologies Ltd. in Bristol seeks a Principal RF Hardware Engineer to design analogue and mixed‑signal hardware for cutting‑edge sensing and communications platforms. You will own RF frontend design, ADC/DAC integration, and SDR bring‑up, collaborating with RF, FPGA, and software teams.

The role is hybrid with on‑site requirements at our Bristol HQ, and relocation support is available for eligible candidates, with eligibility for SC clearance.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing RF and analogue hardware for wireless or radio systems.
• Experience designing RF signal chains including amplification, filtering, mixing and gain control.
• Strong understanding of the full RF signal chain from antenna interface to ADC/DAC integration and digital processing pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Designing RF front‑end architectures including amplification stages, filtering, frequency conversion, and signal conditioning.
• Designing and owning RF and mixed‑signal hardware from concept and schematic capture through to PCB implementation and hardware bring‑up.
• Developing mixed‑signal hardware integrating high‑speed ADCs, DACs and associated clocking architectures.
• Designing multi‑layer RF PCBs, ensuring strong RF performance, signal integrity, grounding strategies, shielding and manufacturability.
• Selecting and integrating RF components including amplifiers, mixers, filters, oscillators, clocking systems and converters.
• Bringing up new RF hardware platforms and validating RF performance using laboratory equipment.
• Debugging and optimising RF signal chains across analogue and mixed‑signal domains.
• Supporting integration of RF hardware with FPGA‑based SDR platforms and embedded processing systems.
• Working closely with signal processing and FPGA engineers to ensure RF hardware supports system‑level performance requirements.
• Producing high‑quality design documentation, schematics and design reviews.

Skills

RF hardware design

Analog front‑end design

Multi‑layer RF PCB design

Schematic capture

PCB tools KiCad/Altium

High‑speed data acquisition

Tools

KiCad

Altium Designer

Job description

Rowden Technologies Ltd. in Bristol seeks a Principal RF Hardware Engineer to design analogue and mixed‑signal hardware for cutting‑edge sensing and communications platforms. You will own RF frontend design, ADC/DAC integration, and SDR bring‑up, collaborating with RF, FPGA, and software teams.

The role is hybrid with on‑site requirements at our Bristol HQ, and relocation support is available for eligible candidates, with eligibility for SC clearance.