Our company, leader in the arena of secure radio communications for military, government, civil aviation, and commercial applications worldwide is looking for an Experienced HF/VHF RF DESIGN ENGINEER to be part of our Corporate Team.

This position is one of the Company’s primary resources to provide technical expertise in the design of HF/VHF RF circuits and systems.

Our HF/VHF Design Engineer will be responsible for the development, and qualification of IF/RF products to specification.

This position supports the design, manufacture and test of existing products, analyzes designs to characterize performance and provide data, revises designs to achieve product performance and product goals, evaluates and chooses new devices to be used in existing products. It is also responsible for evaluating test equipment and processing equipment used in production, diagnosing problems, directing repairs, tuning/testing products, and documenting design and test procedures.

Responsibilities:

• Candidates must have thorough knowledge of analog transistor level design, low noise op-amp, and control circuit design and theory, PLL, DDS and microcontroller design skills, and knowledge of RF/IF blocks used in transmitter and receivers cascade design and analysis, such as LNA, mixers, drivers up to 3 GHZ.
• Must also have knowledge of lumped element filter design and be proficient in RF test methods and use of test equipment.
• Knowledge of VCO design principals from HF to MICROWAVE, design experience in low phase noise, immunity to phase hits and spread spectrum techniques, and design experience in both fractional and integer phase lock loop principles and practices. Must be proficient in: RF/HF and Microwave design concepts, theories, and practices for large signal amplifiers, small signal amplifiers, filters, couplers and control circuits,
• Test methods and the use of test equipment.
• The use of design and analysis/synthesis tools (Altium Designer, PSPICE, AWR, HFSS, etc.)
• The incumbent works with engineering and production to support the pre-sale activity, proposal generation, design and validation of the product.
• The position will report to the Engineering Group for all activities.
• May direct and supervise project personnel including subordinate engineers and engineering technicians.