RF Design Engineer - Airborne Communications & EMI/EMC

System One; Exton (PA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

System One in Exton, PA seeks an experienced RF Hardware Engineer to lead analog and digital RF circuit design for airborne communication and surveillance systems. You will perform design, analysis, simulation, and hands-on board bring-up, tuning, and validation using lab equipment.

You will collaborate across systems, mechanical, software, and certification teams, ensuring EMI/EMC compliance and robust performance in harsh environments, with opportunity to influence product lifecycle from

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate electrical engineering designs and requirements across Systems, Mechanical, Software, and Certification teams.
• Lead design, analysis, and simulation of RF circuits and interfaces for radios and transponders.
• Hands-on circuit board bring-up, RF tuning, troubleshooting, and validation with lab instruments.
• Provide hardware design support through concept, architecture, design, verification, certification, and production.
• Apply RF engineering practices to airborne communications in harsh EMI environments.
• Design for EMI/EMC, grounding, shielding, filtering, and layout to meet aviation requirements.
• Support environmental, EMI/EMC, and functional testing, analyze results and root-cause investigations.
• Contribute to technical documentation: schematics, analyses, tests, reports for reviews and certification.
• Advance product line through engineering creativity and continuous improvement.

Skills

RF circuit design

Analog & digital design

PCB layout

EMI/EMC principles

Schematic capture

RF testing

RF simulation tools

FPGA/VHDL exposure

Signal integrity

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium

PCAD

ADS

HFSS

SPICE

VHDL

Job description

System One in Exton, PA seeks an experienced RF Hardware Engineer to lead analog and digital RF circuit design for airborne communication and surveillance systems. You will perform design, analysis, simulation, and hands-on board bring-up, tuning, and validation using lab equipment.

You will collaborate across systems, mechanical, software, and certification teams, ensuring EMI/EMC compliance and robust performance in harsh environments, with opportunity to influence product lifecycle from