Senior, RF Electrical Engineer (Evergreen)

Key Responsibilities

• Derive RF hardware requirements from system level specifications.
• Detail functional blocks to support surveillance system architectures.
• Perform RF/analog circuit design and hardware engineering from the component level up to entire systems.
• Support detailed design, analysis, development and testing of hardware.
• Design for and support DO-160 and/or MIL-STD qualification of RF electronics (environmental, EMI/EMC).
• Conduct and participate in internal and external system design reviews.
• Present concepts, designs, actionable information, and results to program management and Acron Aviation customers.
• Lead or work in conjunction with mechanical, systems and software engineering to meet challenging performance requirements.
• Support internal peer design reviews, design verification testing of engineering units, and oversight of design through production.
• Develop methods for modifying systems to include new RF and wireless capabilities.
• Good verbal, written communication, and excellent analytical skills are essential for this position.
• Ability to work independently, as well as contribute to the work of multi-disciplinary engineering teams to ensure the successful development of RF systems and assemblies.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 - 9 years of prior relevant experience.
• RF design experience for fielded products, with preference for commercial avionics applications.
• Candidate must have an academia background in electro-magnetic (EM) and RF/microwave theory.

Preferred Additional Skills

• Experience designing RF CCAs operating at frequencies ranging from UHF through E-band, but with focus in L-band (1GHz). Design activities will include frequency synthesizers, up/down converters, front-end electronics and other RF electronics.
• Experience with simulation and/or 3D modeling tools such as HFSS, AWR Microwave Office and/or ADS.
• Understanding of critical performance characteristics of passive and active RF components such as ADCs, DACs, Amplifiers, Oscillators, Attenuators, Mixers and Filters. An understanding of how these characteristics relate to a system's performance is a plus.
• Working understanding and knowledge of S-parameters (matching networks, cascade analysis, …), Gain budget analysis (Gain, NF, Linearity, Noise power, … ), and Filtering (types, bandwidth, implementations, … ).
• A strong understanding of noise figure/noise temperature (Eb/No, BER vs. noise, receiver sensitivity, and expected value and variance), temperature effects, interconnection (standard and non-standard impedances), and isolation requirements