Senior RF Test Engineer – Production & Yield Expert

TSC; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP participation

401k Plan

Flexible Work Schedules

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

TSC Huntsville, AL seeks a hands-on RF Manufacturing Test Engineer to support production of advanced RF systems in a demanding environment. You will own test strategy, troubleshoot complex RF performance issues, and drive calibration and test coverage across production lots.

The role requires 5+ years of RF/microwave production experience, SPC background, and strong collaboration with Design Engineering to improve DFT/DFM/DFC. US citizenship and security clearance are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with 5+ years of hands-on RF/microwave production experience.
• Demonstrated expertise troubleshooting complex RF systems in production environments, not just lab development.
• Deep understanding of RF system performance including gain/loss/dynamic range, noise figure and sensitivity, linearity and compression, phase noise and stability, and spurious/interference mechanisms.
• Strong experience debugging RF issues tied to mechanical layout, grounding, shielding, and assembly variation.
• Extensive hands-on experience with RF test equipment: spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzers (VNAs), signal generators, power meters/sensors.
• Experience developing automated RF test systems using Python, LabVIEW, TestStand, or similar frameworks.
• Experience with production calibration, alignment, and tuning of RF systems.
• Strong background in statistical process control (SPC), yield analysis, and failure investigation.
• Proven ability to diagnose issues spanning RF, digital, embedded, and electromechanical domains.
• Experience transitioning products from development to production with emphasis on test readiness, documentation completeness, and process repeatability.
• Strong technical communication skills; able to lead technical reviews, failure investigations, and customer briefings.
• US Citizen and the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Owns resolution of the most complex production issues, including intermittent failures, environmental sensitivities, calibration drift, and unit-to-unit performance variation.
• Leads deep-dive root cause investigations across full RF signal chains, including RF front-end, analog, mixed-signal, and embedded interfaces.
• Diagnoses and resolves issues related to noise, spurious signals, coupling, shielding, grounding, and system-level interactions.
• Drives transition of RF hardware from development into production, ensuring production-representative test coverage, calibration robustness, and repeatability across builds.
• Develops and deploys advanced RF production test solutions, including automated test systems, alignment/calibration routines, and system-level validation methods.
• Optimizes production test flows to balance test coverage, throughput, and false failure reduction, while maintaining mission-critical performance requirements.
• Drives reduction of test escapes and false failures through improved test coverage, limits, and methodologies.
• Applies statistical analysis to production data to identify trends in yield loss, drift, and performance variation across lots, builds, and environments.
• Partners with Design Engineering to close gaps in DFT, DFM, and DFC.
• Leads implementation of corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) for systemic production issues.
• Interfaces with Program Management, Quality, Supply Chain, and customers to communicate technical risk, readiness, and production performance.
• Provides hands-on technical leadership on the manufacturing floor and at the bench, supporting test stations, troubleshooting efforts, and engineering builds.
• Mentors engineers and technicians in RF debugging, measurement techniques, and production best practices.
• Expected to independently diagnose issues where RF performance deviates from design intent with no clear failure mode or repeatability.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

RF troubleshooting

RF/microwave production

Statistical process control

Root cause analysis

Python

LabVIEW

TestStand

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Spectrum analyzers

Vector network analyzers (VNAs)

Signal generators

Power meters/sensors

Job description

TSC Huntsville, AL seeks a hands-on RF Manufacturing Test Engineer to support production of advanced RF systems in a demanding environment. You will own test strategy, troubleshoot complex RF performance issues, and drive calibration and test coverage across production lots.

The role requires 5+ years of RF/microwave production experience, SPC background, and strong collaboration with Design Engineering to improve DFT/DFM/DFC. US citizenship and security clearance are required.