Senior RF Antenna Engineer

IC Resources; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension contribution

25 days' holiday + eight bank holidays

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

IC Resources in Central London is seeking a Senior RF Antenna Engineer to turn antenna designs into working hardware for communications and radar systems. The role offers hybrid working and exposure from simulation through to product release, providing practical experience across both design and laboratory development.

You will design and optimise antenna arrays, feeds and printed RF structures using CST or HFSS, assemble prototypes, and measure performance with VNAs.

Qualifications

• A master’s degree or equivalent in electronic engineering, RF, physics or electromagnetics.
• Experience designing, simulating and experimentally evaluating antennas or antenna arrays.
• Familiarity with RF measurements and analysis tools such as MATLAB or Python.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimise antenna arrays, feeds and printed RF structures using CST Microwave Studio, HFSS or equivalent tools.
• Assemble prototypes, measure their performance using VNAs and antenna measurement equipment, and investigate differences between simulated and measured results.
• Work with systems, hardware, mechanical and software colleagues to support subsystem integration, verification and design improvements.
• Contribute to engineering reviews and help improve simulation workflows, measurement methods and product robustness.

Skills

Antenna design

RF measurement

Education

Master’s degree in EE/RF

Tools

CST Microwave Studio

HFSS

MATLAB

Python

Job description

Our client is looking for a Senior RF Antenna Engineer to join its engineering team in Central London, helping turn antenna designs into working hardware for communications and radar systems. With hybrid working and involvement from simulation through to product release, this role offers an engineer early in their career practical experience across both design and laboratory development.

Our client develops beam-steering antenna systems, with engineering challenges around RF performance, power consumption, weight and practical integration. As its technology moves from advanced prototypes towards deployable products, you’ll work alongside experienced engineers to develop antennas that perform beyond the simulation environment.

As a Senior RF Antenna Engineer, you’ll design and optimise antenna arrays, feeds and printed RF structures using CST Microwave Studio, HFSS or equivalent tools. You’ll help assemble prototypes, measure their performance using VNAs and antenna measurement equipment, and investigate differences between simulated and measured results.

Working with systems, hardware, mechanical and software colleagues, you’ll support subsystem integration, verification and design improvements. You’ll also contribute to engineering reviews and help improve simulation workflows, measurement methods and product robustness.

Our client is looking for:

• A relevant master’s degree or equivalent in electronic engineering, RF, physics or electromagnetics
• Experience designing, simulating and experimentally evaluating antennas or antenna arrays
• Familiarity with RF measurements and analysis tools such as MATLAB or Python

Experience with printed antennas, feed networks or beam-steering systems would be useful. The main attraction is the breadth of practical engineering: developing a design, understanding its measured behaviour and contributing to its integration into a complete product, with support from experienced colleagues.

• competitive salary
• pension contribution
• 25 days' holiday plus eight bank holidays
• flexible working arrangements