Radio Frequency (RF) Engineer

Thales Aerospace Communications; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace communications firm in Cape Town is seeking an experienced Radio Frequency (RF) Engineer with a BSc. or MSc in Electrical Engineering and minimum 10 years of relevant experience. This role involves developing and maintaining the technical baseline, system integration, and verification testing, ensuring compliance with customer and industry standards. Candidates should have a solid understanding of terrestrial and satellite communications systems and possess strong collaboration skills with various engineering disciplines. Affirmative Action and/or EE candidates will be given first preference.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years' experience as a Radio Frequency (RF) engineer.
• Good knowledge of various engineering disciplines, including digital, software, mechanical, and power supplies.
• Knowledge of terrestrial or satellite communications systems.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining system technical baseline.
• System integration and system level verification testing.
• Interfacing with program managers and customers on technical matters.
• Addressing production and maintenance issues.

Skills

Radio Frequency (RF) engineering

Collaboration with engineering disciplines

Requirement management

Product Life Cycle Management

Education

BSc. or MSc in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Overview

To be responsible for collecting all customer related technical requirements, requirements from applicable industry standards, and higher-level system requirements, and compile detailed requirements at product level.

To then interface with other engineering disciplines within the company, including RF, Antenna, Mechanical, Electronic, and Software to jointly develop Hardware and Software requirements to enable design and development.

To work with the same engineering groups to ensure these requirements are validated and verified by testing or analysis of all requirements.

Responsibilities

• Developing and Maintaining system technical baseline which will involve interfacing with product subject matter experts within Engineering
• System integration and system level verification testing
• Interfacing with program managers and customers on technical and commercial matters
• Addressing production and maintenance issues.

Qualifications

• BSc. or MSc in Electrical Engineering with a minimum of 10 years’ experience as a Radio Frequency (RF) engineer
• Good knowledge of various engineering disciplines including digital, software, mechanical, and power supplies
• Knowledge of terrestrial communications systems or satellite communication systems
• Requirement management
• Product Life Cycle Management

Affirmative Action and/or EE candidates will be given first preference as per our employment equity strategies.