Senior Antenna Engineer — RF & Radar Systems Lead

Tiger Resourcing Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Tiger Resourcing Group is seeking a Senior Antenna Engineer for North London. You will take technical responsibility for major antenna work packages, covering design, EM modelling, development, testing and ongoing product support within a radar engineering context.

You will lead R&D activities, oversee specifications, verification, and collaborate with systems, hardware, and supply chain teams to resolve manufacturability issues and ensure quality across design and production.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing and developing printed and waveguide antennas at microwave frequencies.
• Solid understanding of antenna theory, design and testing for arrays and printed antennas.
• Experience designing or selecting RF components (rotary joints, filters, splitters, combiners).
• Ability to model antenna systems with software tools.
• Experience with RF measurement equipment (spectrum analyzers, VNAs).
• Understanding of design for manufacture and design for test.
• Experience in a production environment with near-field scanning, compact ranges and anechoic chambers.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Lead antenna R&D activities from design through production support.
• Maintain design information, test methods and technical records.
• Develop requirements and specifications with verification and validation.
• Provide guidance to research, systems and hardware engineers and to suppliers.
• Support antenna and RF designs, production test facilities and verification methods.
• Investigate manufacturing problems via trend analysis and root-cause.
• Apply engineering procedures to maintain quality in design and manufacture.
• Prepare estimates and plans and keep documentation up to date.
• Undertake other activities relevant to the role.

Skills

Antenna design

Antenna theory

RF components

Antenna modelling

RF measurement

Design for manufacture

RF lab experience

English communication

Tools

Altair RF

MATLAB

Python

Job description

Tiger Resourcing Group is seeking a Senior Antenna Engineer for North London. You will take technical responsibility for major antenna work packages, covering design, EM modelling, development, testing and ongoing product support within a radar engineering context.

You will lead R&D activities, oversee specifications, verification, and collaborate with systems, hardware, and supply chain teams to resolve manufacturability issues and ensure quality across design and production.