Senior Hardware in the loop Engineer

MASS; St. Neots; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave inclusive of up 3

Buy or sell up to 5 days’ annual leave

Annual Wellbeing allowance

Two pension schemes to choose from

Private Medical Insurance + discounts

Life Assurance up to 4 x salary

Share Save scheme

Electric/Hybrid Car leasing scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Retail discounts

Career development support

Job summary

MASS in St Neots is seeking a Senior HIL Engineer (RF) to design and build analogue RF circuits for integration with complex RF systems. This full-time, on-site role focuses on developing hardware for synthetic ranges and high-importance trials.

You will deploy tests, write automation scripts (MATLAB, Python, LabVIEW), and work with government and industry partners to verify performance. A STEM degree and UK work eligibility are required.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of RF analogue designs and testing (trade-offs between bandwidth and signal purity).
• Scaling and calibration activities to ensure synthetic environments are correctly represented to real-time HIL systems.
• Experience writing test automation scripts for real-time systems (MATLAB, Python, LabVIEW).
• Ability to solve problems in a methodical manner.

Responsibilities

• Design and build analogue RF circuits to integrate complex RF systems.
• Deploy and test hardware models within synthetic ranges.
• Deliver automated, repeatable trials for government and industry partners.

Skills

RF Analog Designs

RF Testing

Test Automation

MATLAB

Python

LabVIEW

Test Equipment

ICD/API

PCB Design

RF Safety

Education

STEM Degree

Tools

Test Benches

SYNTH/Targets

Job description

Senior HIL Engineer (RF) – St Neots (PE19) | Permanent | On-site

• £50,000 - £65,000
• 25 days annual leave inclusive of up to 3 days Christmas shut-down
• Buy or sell up to 5 days’ annual leave
• Annual Wellbeing allowance
• 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
• Retail discounts
• Career development support

Come and join our expanding Electronic Warfare Operations Support Group (EWOS) which is made up of 80+ electronic warfare specialists. From all manner of backgrounds, our engineers, scientists, and ex-military personnel combine their experience to help our customers achieve true operational potential and help keep their people and platforms safe.

Are you looking for a role that can design and build analogue RF circuits to integrate complex RF systems? Do you enjoy deploying and testing hardware models? This role will allow you to use your skills integrating and verifying novel conceptual, in-service, and legacy RF systems in a cutting-edge, first-of-its-kind synthetic range.

With the continual improvement in COTS RFSoC technologies and associated RF waveform performance, the proliferation through our synthetic range of these payloads will only increase. Combined with a drive for more synthetic trials to assure performance, train operators, and design tactics and procedures, this is an excellent growth area for your career.

Working full-time at our St Neots site, you will help deliver high-importance synthetic trials to a variety of government and industry partners, each with their own requirements to be verified. Your ability to ensure automated and repeatable solutions will greatly impact the success of these trials.

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

Essential:

• Strong knowledge of RF analogue designs and testing (e.g. trade-offs between bandwidth and signal purity).
• Scaling and calibration activities to ensure synthetic environments are correctly represented to real-time HIL systems.
• Experience writing test automation scripts for real-time systems (MATLAB, Python, LabView etc.).
• Ability to solve problems in a methodical manner.
• STEM degree.

Desirable:

• Experience using test bench equipment (signal generators, spectrum analysers, oscilloscopes, network analysers, power meters) to assure repeatable integration activities.
• Generation of test harnesses for hardware model interfaces (Analogue RF, Digital IQ, TCP/IP, UDP, JTAG, UART etc.)
• Familiarity with synchronisation and timing architectures.
• Network debugging and fault-finding (package/port level).
• Experience implementing ICDs/APIs and reviewing documentation for customer System-Under-Test (SUT).
• Experience with PCB design and manufacture.
• Safety-conscious approach when working with RF equipment.
• Knowledge of EW systems.

Wellbeingis at the core to our culture, allowingemployees 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 supportindividuals including, mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive employee assistance programme.

Our Non-negotiables:

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

• A UK National and eligible to work in the UK
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a UK GovernmentSC-levelsecurity clearance

to see how working for MASS could work for you!