Radio Frequency (RF) Engineer

TRAK Microwave Corporation; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

TRAK TECOM in the Tampa area is seeking a Radio Frequency (RF) Engineer to lead RF/microwave/mmW hardware development across the product lifecycle for aerospace and defense applications, from research and architecture trades to prototyping, verification, and sustainment. U.S.

citizenship is required to obtain a government security clearance. You will work in an IPT environment with program management, quality, manufacturing and supply chain, designing boards up to 40 GHz, and ensuring RF

Qualifications

• Requires 5–10 years of hardware development experience up to 20 GHz.
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering (BSEE) required.
• Travel up to 10% within continental U.S. when needed.
• U.S. citizenship required to obtain a government security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Technical responsibility for RF/microwave/mmW hardware from research to sustainment.
• Participate in product lifecycle for aerospace/defense electronics modules and subsystems.
• Work in an IPT environment with program management, quality, and manufacturing.

Skills

RF circuit simulation

EM problems

PWB design up to 20 GHz

Single layer droids up to 40GHz

Interconnect modeling

SPICE simulations

RF measurements and validation

Education

BSEE

Tools

Cadence AWR

ADS

Job description

Description

TRAK TECOM designs, builds, and delivers advanced RF electronic solutions and antenna systems for mission-critical performance across the aerospace and defense industry.

Our RF microwave and antenna solutions support Electronic Warfare (EW), Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), Radar, Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT), Telemetry, Tracking, Command & Datalink, and Communications helping customers achieve reliability, resilience, and high performance in the harshest operating environments.

We are currently seeking a Radio Frequency (RF Engineer) to work in an integrated process team environment, with technical responsibility for all the following, regarding RF/microwave/mmW hardware: research, architecture trades, estimating recurring and non-recurring hardware and activities, analysis, proposals, selection, development, prototyping, verification, customer support, manufacturing support, and sustainment. U.S. Citizenship Required. U.S. Citizenship is required to obtain a Government security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Have technical responsibility for all aspects of the RF/microwave/mmW hardware within our products, inclusive of UHF through 40GHz
• Participate in the entire product lifecycle for bespoke electronics modules, subsystems, and systems for the aerospace and defense market, including for RADAR, EW, SIGINT, comm, and satcom.
• Work in an integrated process team (IPT) environment, along with program management, quality, manufacturing, supply chain, and other engineering disciplines
• Perform all of the following activities for RF/microwave/mmW hardware: research, architecture trades, estimate recurring and non-recurring hardware and activities, analyze circuits, write technical proposals, select active and passive devices, design single layer substrates and single to multi-layer printed circuit boards, prototyping, verification, customer support, manufacturing support, and sustainment.

Requirements

Technical Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Required

• Competent in RF linear and non-linear circuit simulation using Cadence AWR or ADS
• Experience with 2.5D and 3D electromagnetic problems and simulation tools
• Experience with multi-layer printed wiring boards (PWB) design and layout up to 20 GHz
• Experience with single layer droids and ceramic layout up to 40GHz
• Experience with chip & wire/bare die design, interconnect, and modeling of interconnect
• Competent in analog DC, AC, and transient circuit simulation using SPICE or derivative
• Competent in RF measurements and design validation procedures

Preferred

• Experience with MMIC development through 40GHz
• Knowledgeable of system architecture and block diagram planning of up converters and down converters
• Experience with RF system modeling using Cadence AWR VSS
• Knowledgeable of frequency planning and mixer spurious analysis for up and down converters
• Knowledgeable of phase noise requirements, cascaded phase noise performance, and connection to hardware implementation methods
• Knowledgeable with millimeter-wave electronics through 100GHz
• General knowledge of the requirements for and design of microwave sources, LNAs, SSPAs, mixers, filters, and synthesizers
• SSPA design of at least 10W linear from C-band through Ka Band using GaN or GaAs devices

Experience: 5 to 10 years of progressively increasing experience and responsibility for hardware development through at least 20GHz

Education: Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering (BSEE)

Travel: Up to 10 % required or as business needs require, predominately within continental U.S.

Security: U.S. citizenship required. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a government security clearance.