RF/mmWave Product Applications Engineer

Cubic Corporation; Brassfield (NC); On-site; USD 115,000 - 133,000; Full time

Job summary

Cubic Corporation, within Cubic Defense, seeks a Product Applications Engineer (PAE) to support design-in, integration, and use of Nuvotronics products. You will create evaluation boards, reference designs, and demonstrations while bridging customer needs with internal teams.

Strong RF/microwave experience and the ability to travel are essential. You will develop, document, and support customer engagement strategies, collaborate across RF, mechanical, product, and manufacturing teams, and ensure

Qualifications

• BSEE or related engineering degree required; MSEE preferred, with 3+ years of RF, microwave, mmWave, or RF PCBA design and integration experience.
• Ability to obtain a DOD Security Clearance.
• Demonstrated experience with schematic capture and PCB layout review for RF/microwave hardware.
• Working knowledge of multilayer PCB stack-ups, controlled impedance, RF materials, grounding, power integrity, thermal design, DFM/DFA/DFT, fabrication tolerances, and assembly processes.
• Hands-on experience bringing up and troubleshooting RF PCBAs using equipment such as vector network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, power meters, oscilloscopes, and related fixtures.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• Ability to travel as required (~10-30%).
• Ability to prioritize work, complete multiple tasks, and work under deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Identifies new and expanded business opportunities within a market or region.
• Develop, document, validate, and maintain evaluation boards, customer-ready reference designs, and product demonstrations that accelerate successful design-in.
• Apply and communicate PCBA design principles, including stack-up definition, controlled-impedance routing, grounding and return-current management, power integrity, decoupling, thermal management, design for manufacturability, assembly, and test.
• Own RF PCBA implementation and integration activities, including RF transmission-line design, transitions and launches, connector and interconnect selection, placement and routing, shielding and isolation, bias networks, calibration/de-embedding structures, and mitigation of coupling, loss, and parasitic effects.
• Create reusable reference-design packages that include schematics, layouts, bills of materials, design notes, simulation assumptions, fabrication and assembly guidance, test procedures, measured results, and known limitations.
• Plan and execute board bring-up and RF validation using appropriate laboratory equipment, compare measured performance with simulation and product data, and drive corrective actions when results do not align.
• Develop, implement, and support customer technical design-in engagement strategies.
• Directly support customers in using Nuvotronics products, including working with customer engineering, PCB layout, manufacturing, and assembly teams to resolve integration and bring-up questions.
• Monitors and analyzes technical activity against goals.
• Develops and maintains contacts with customers.
• Develops technical information used for new business proposals, product specifications, statements of work and systems requirements.
• Recommend application and/or modification of products to satisfy customer requirements.
• Confers with customer technical representatives and management to determine and interpret customer requirements.
• Keeps track of potential sales opportunities and marketing efforts of competitor firms.
• Assist customers with schematic, layout, simulation, component selection, board bring-up, measurement correlation, and RF integration challenges using available design tools.
• Work collaboratively with RF design, mechanical, product, manufacturing, quality, sales, and other internal teams to deliver robust application solutions.

Skills

RF design

Schematic capture

PCB layout review

RF PCBA bring-up

Measurement instruments

Communication skills

Travel readiness

Education

BSEE or related engineering degree

MS EE preferred

Tools

Vector network analyzers

Spectrum analyzers

Signal generators

Power meters

Oscilloscopes

MATLAB

Python

HFSS/CST (optional)

Job description

Cubic Corporation, within Cubic Defense, seeks a Product Applications Engineer (PAE) to support design-in, integration, and use of Nuvotronics products. You will create evaluation boards, reference designs, and demonstrations while bridging customer needs with internal teams.

Strong RF/microwave experience and the ability to travel are essential. You will develop, document, and support customer engagement strategies, collaborate across RF, mechanical, product, and manufacturing teams, and ensure