Principal RF Engineer — EW, SIGINT & Secure Comms

Bazeta; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Metrea in Lincoln, with potential London transition, seeks a Principal RF Engineer to lead RF system design and integration for expeditionary EW, signals intelligence, spectrum operations, and secure communications.

You will own RF architectures, receivers/transmitters, antennas, filters, and signal distribution across airborne, ground, and unmanned platforms, while coordinating across multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and integrate RF systems for expeditionary Unmanned Systems control, Electronic Warfare, signals intelligence, spectrum-monitoring and secure communications capabilities.
• Develop RF system architectures covering antennas, receivers, transmitters, amplifiers, filters, frequency conversion, switching and signal distribution.
• Conduct RF performance analysis, including gain, noise figure, sensitivity, dynamic range, linearity, link budgets and interference assessments.
• Support rapid R&D, prototyping and technology evaluation, translating operational requirements into practical and deployable RF solutions.
• Integrate commercial, government and internally developed RF equipment across airborne, vehicle-mounted, maritime, fixed-site and unmanned platforms.
• Plan and conduct RF testing, characterisation, fault diagnosis, verification and corrective engineering activity.
• Ensure RF designs consider electromagnetic compatibility, spectrum management, grounding, bonding, shielding, environmental protection and relevant standards.
• Work closely with electrical, mechanical, software, cyber, systems and operational teammates throughout the engineering lifecycle.
• Support UK and international trials, demonstrations, installations, commissioning and operational deployments.
• Provide RF technical leadership, design assurance and clear engineering recommendations to customers, suppliers and internal stakeholders.

Job description

Metrea in Lincoln, with potential London transition, seeks a Principal RF Engineer to lead RF system design and integration for expeditionary EW, signals intelligence, spectrum operations, and secure communications.

You will own RF architectures, receivers/transmitters, antennas, filters, and signal distribution across airborne, ground, and unmanned platforms, while coordinating across multidisciplinary teams.