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(Stellant) is seeking the best and brightest talent to help us bring cutting edge technology to mission critical aerospace and defense applications, supporting critical commercial and government programs for orbital or terrestrial systems. Stellant supports a variety of active RF microelectronics products, including Linearizers, Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPAs), Channel Amplifiers, Up/Down Converters, Low Noise Amplifiers (LNAs), and similar. Stellant has delivered well over 7000 active RF units since 1996, supporting a large number of spacecraft from UHF to Q-band. In support of this work, Stellant’s engineering team is seeking an experienced RF Engineer to develop and maintain high-performance RF integrated microwave assembly and power amplifier products, using both SMT and chip-and-wire construction, for space applications. The primary role for this position is technical ownership of design, development, and production troubleshooting. As a senior engineer, you will also have responsibility to guide a multi-disciplinary team to support proposals, development and production efforts in various phases to assure commitments are met.\nResponsibilities\nDetailed design and schematic capture of the RF / electronic circuits and overall product.\nDevelop the functional specifications for RF power amplifiers and integrated microwave assemblies.\nProposal support for existing and future products.\nDesign tweaks to full new design for active RF products.\nEnsure that bare die and bond wire layout designs meet design requirements.\nQualification execution on new development.\nResponsible for the release of the engineering design package to the production configuration management system.\nSet up and calibrate an RF Test bench to perform RF testing including Gain, Power, NF, and VSWR.\nProvide support and guidance for the development of automated methods for sub-system testing.\nDesign power amplifier matching networks using non-linear models.\nSupport production builds on development and flight hardware.\nRun root cause investigations for built hardware.\nQualifications\nA bachelor's degree in physics or an engineering discipline is required. A master's degree in one of these disciplines a plus\nIII: Minimum of 4 years of relevant engineering experience. \nVI: Minimum of 6 years of relevant engineering experience. \nV: Minimum of 9 years of relevant engineering experience.\nAn advanced degree in a relevant field can be considered sufficient experience in lieu of professional experience. \nTypically requires 6+ years of direct RF and microwave assemblies experience\nExperience using RF Test Equipment such as Network Analyzers, Power Meters, Bench power supplies, signal/waveform generators, high-speed oscilloscopes, Noise Figure analyzers, and spectrum analyzers\nExperience using Microwave Studios CST, Ansys HFSS, Microwave Office, ADS, or equivalent\nExperience with development or programmatic milestones such as PDR, CDR, MRR, TRR as well as qualification of RF devices.\nSupport of space hardware strongly preferred.\nExperience with proposals.\nHands on manufacturing engineer experience a plus\nExperience working with engineering drawings.\nExperience writing technical instructions or equivalent a plus.\nComputer programming skills a nice to have.\nEffective verbal and written communication skills are needed, with experience presenting to internal and/or external customers a plus\nMust be able to work well in a team environment and with individuals from a variety of areas within the company (such as program managers, engineers from multiple disciplines, and operations staff)\nA bachelor's degree in physics or an engineering discipline is required. A master's degree in one of these disciplines a plus\nPrevious experience in root cause analysis efforts a bonus\nProficiency using Microsoft Office applications is necessary\nStellant Systems is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. 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