Radar Systems Lead & Architect for Advanced RF

Holt Executive Ltd; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Holt Executive Ltd. seeks a Lead Radar Systems Engineer to provide technical leadership across advanced radar and RF programmes within a growing engineering organisation.

This hands-on leadership role focuses on defining radar system concepts and architectures from concept to deployment, guiding cross-disciplinary teams in RF, electronics, signal processing, software and systems engineering.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of industrial radar systems experience.
• Experience with pulse and FMCW radars.
• Knowledge of SAR/radar imaging.
• Experience with RF architecture and transceiver design.
• Strong systems engineering and requirements capture.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of advanced radar and RF systems.
• Define and assess RF architectures against evolving customer requirements.
• Make system-level trade-offs across performance, cost, risk and complexity.
• Provide technical leadership to multidisciplinary teams.
• Develop radar system requirements, architectures and performance models.
• Conduct system-level analysis and evaluate radar performance (range, resolution, sensitivity, clutter).
• Act as a technical authority with customers and stakeholders.
• Support technical scoping, proposals, project planning and programme development.
• Identify opportunities from customer challenges and emerging technologies.
• Mentor and develop engineers across radar, RF and systems disciplines.
• Contribute to technology roadmaps and capability development.

Skills

Radar systems

RF architectures

Systems engineering

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Antenna concepts

RF transceiver design

Radar modelling tools

Job description

Holt Executive Ltd. seeks a Lead Radar Systems Engineer to provide technical leadership across advanced radar and RF programmes within a growing engineering organisation.

This hands-on leadership role focuses on defining radar system concepts and architectures from concept to deployment, guiding cross-disciplinary teams in RF, electronics, signal processing, software and systems engineering.