Senior Space RF Systems Engineer — On-Site in Edinburgh

Honeywell Aerospace; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Honeywell Aerospace in Edinburgh is seeking an Advanced Systems Engineer to design, implement and manage complex RF/SDR systems for space and defence applications, reporting to the Engineering Manager and working on-site.

You will lead architecture development, perform RF analysis, and collaborate with RF, hardware, firmware and systems engineers to ensure quality, reliability and performance against milestones.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronic/Electrical/RF engineering.
• 4+ years of industrial RF systems engineering experience.
• Strong RF analysis skills: link budgets, EVM, noise figure.
• Experience with MIL-STD/ECSS standards.
• Proven requirements capture, decomposition and traceability.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and develop RF system architectures for aerospace, space and defence.
• Translate requirements into verifiable RF subsystem specs.
• Lead technical reviews and drive design progress.
• Collaborate with RF, hardware, firmware and systems engineers.
• Define RF verification, validation strategies, tests and acceptance criteria.
• Support RF testing in lab environments and analyze results.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of RF engineering processes.

Skills

RF systems engineering

Requirements capture & traceability

RF analysis

RF link budget

Verification & validation

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical leadership

Communication of complex technical信息

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronic Engineering / Electrical Engineering / RF Engineering

Tools

Vector Network Analyser

Spectrum Analyser

Signal Generator

Power Meter

Oscilloscope

EMC/EMI testing equipment

Job description

Honeywell Aerospace in Edinburgh is seeking an Advanced Systems Engineer to design, implement and manage complex RF/SDR systems for space and defence applications, reporting to the Engineering Manager and working on-site.

You will lead architecture development, perform RF analysis, and collaborate with RF, hardware, firmware and systems engineers to ensure quality, reliability and performance against milestones.