Senior Staff RF Design Engineer - Unmanned Aircraft Systems
$115,000–$200,000 year
On-siteSan Diego, California, United States
Job Summary
Design and develop RF, analog, and digital circuits for Unmanned Aircraft Systems platforms while minimizing size, weight, and power. Identify system requirements and lead hardware architecture development across RF, analog, digital, and mechanical disciplines. Drive design verification, transition products to manufacturing, and establish development schedules and budgets. Collaborate with software, test, and certification groups to ensure hardware meets performance and reliability standards. Create manufacturing support infrastructure, maintain PLM documentation, and support technical customer meetings.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or related field of study
- 10+ years of experience as an RF/Wireless Design Engineer
- Understands transceiver design, frequency conversion, frequency synthesizers, and PLL design to 3 GHz with tight packaging constraints
- Experience with front-end amplifiers and filter design
- Experience with receive sensitivity, noise figure, and transmit power measurements
- Experience with RF Power Amplifier design and characterization
- Demonstrates knowledge of RF analysis and computer-aided design tools
- Proficiency in circuit debugging and troubleshooting
- Experience with wireless communications and test equipment design
- Able to frequently sit, stand, walk, use hands to fingers, handle or feel, reach within hands and arm's length, stoop, kneel, and crouch, talk and hear
- Able to regularly sit for extended periods of time; frequently required to use office equipment such as PC, printer, telephone, etc.
- Able to regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
- U.S. Citizenship
- Ability to obtain one [security clearance]
Desired Qualifications
- Experience developing products for UAS or similar environments where SWaP, reliability, and performance are critical factors is preferred
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