Senior Design Engineer - RF Designs

Garmin; Salem (OR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a full-time Senior Design Engineer in Salem, Oregon. The role involves providing technical leadership in RF designs for aviation products, requiring strong communication skills and a background in Electrical Engineering. Candidates should have experience in PCB design and RF technologies, with additional software skills in Python and MATLAB being beneficial. This position offers a chance to work on innovative aviation products and contribute to the development of cutting-edge technology.

Benefits

Garmin's benefit program

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years relevant experience in RF design.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex RF design projects for aviation products.
• Collaborate with Production and Engineering for PCB solutions.
• Analyze test data to ensure design meets specifications.

Skills

Communication

Electrical Engineering

RF Design

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

Python

MATLAB

Genesis

ADS

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a full-time Senior Design Engineer in our Salem, Or location. In this role, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership and project planning for complex RF designs for aviation products that are new for Garmin or existing products.

Essential Functions

• Serves in leadership capacity for carrying out complex design and development of RF designs for aviation products that involve complicated schematics and PCB design consisting of one or more PCB’s
• May serve as a Project Engineer on new projects that involve a new design or major changes to an existing design
• Teams with Production and Engineering to design the best PCB solutions accounting for thermal and space constraints and to turn on new processors along with ensuring robust designs and appropriate testability
• Collaborates and adds value through participation in design reviews
• Offers process improvement suggestions, authors new procedures, and provides technical input to product development plans and concept documents along with making substantial contributions toward determination of project goal/objective feasibility
• Plans and develops experimental test programs to verify compliance to all applicable regulations and quality guidelines using software tools and test equipment
• Analyzes test data and reports to determine if the proposed design meets functional and performance specifications and to determine if applicable to developing other systems
• Interfaces with the Test Engineers and factory personnel on the testing and production of products and support production facilities in the manufacture of products and directs and coordinates manufacture of prototype
• Investigates, researches and evaluates the usage of the latest components and technologies and performs cost/performance tradeoff analysis of different circuit options

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering AND a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)
• Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Demonstrated proficiency with a complicated schematic and PCB design consisting of one or more PCB’s
• Broad technical knowledge and skills in one or more areas of Electrical Engineering (e.g., analog, digital, RF, and/or DSP)

Desired Qualifications

• RF design experience
• Extensive circuit design experience for consumer or aviation products
• A background working with transmitters and receivers related to RF
• Some software skills are helpful such as experience writing test scripts in Python, working with MATLAB or RF Design software such as Genesis and ADS

Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.

This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits