Senior Antenna & RF Design Lead — Radar Systems

HENSOLDT; Enfield; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

HENSOLDT seeks a Senior Antenna Engineer to lead key antenna design and development packages in our UK team. You will contribute to RF design, system analyses, and support to production test facilities while ensuring design-for-manufacture principles are applied.

You will work closely with Systems, Hardware, Supply Chain, and Quality teams to deliver robust antenna solutions. Strong English communication and a team-oriented mindset are essential.

Qualifications

• Printed and waveguide antenna design at microwave frequencies.
• RF component design/selection including rotary joints, RF filters, splitters, combiners.
• Knowledge of high power RF amplifiers, LNAs, limiters, circulators, filters, mixers and PLLs is advantageous.
• Antenna system design using software modelling packages.
• Familiarity with RF test equipment (e.g. Spectrum Analysers, Vector Network Analysers).
• Antenna theory and design and test including array antennas (slotted/printed).
• Design for test and design for manufacture.
• Experience in a production environment with near-field scanning, compact ranges, anechoic chambers.
• Self-motivated with good teamwork.
• Good command of written and verbal English.

Responsibilities

• Proactively lead antenna R&D and development.
• Maintain antenna designs, test methodology, and design data.
• Oversee derivation of requirements, specifications, and verification plans.
• Provide technical support to Systems, Hardware, Supply Chain, and QA teams.
• Support antenna and RF designs and production test facilities and methodologies.
• Address manufacturability issues with root-cause analysis.
• Ensure procedures are followed and documentation is maintained.
• Generate estimates and plans for antenna work packages.

Skills

Antenna design

RF engineering

Test & verification

Team collaboration

English communication

Tools

Vector Network Analysers

Spectrum Analysers

Altair RF

Antenna design software

Job description

HENSOLDT seeks a Senior Antenna Engineer to lead key antenna design and development packages in our UK team. You will contribute to RF design, system analyses, and support to production test facilities while ensuring design-for-manufacture principles are applied.

You will work closely with Systems, Hardware, Supply Chain, and Quality teams to deliver robust antenna solutions. Strong English communication and a team-oriented mindset are essential.