What are the responsibilities and job description for the Radio Frequency Design Engineer position at Zodiac Solutions, Inc?
Job Title: RF Design Engineer
Location: Melbourne, FL (Onsite)
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced RF Design Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Radio Frequency (RF) circuit design and hardware development. The ideal candidate will have expertise in designing, developing, testing, and troubleshooting RF circuits, components, transmitters, receivers, and RF front-end modules.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop RF circuits, transmitters, receivers, and RF front-end modules.
- Design and optimize RF components such as LNAs, power amplifiers, filters, mixers, oscillators, PLLs, and RF switches.
- Perform RF circuit simulations, impedance matching, and performance optimization.
- Analyse key RF parameters, including gain, noise figure, return loss, insertion loss, VSWR, bandwidth, linearity, and phase noise.
- Develop schematics and support RF PCB layout, component selection, and design reviews.
- Conduct laboratory testing, characterization, debugging, and validation of RF hardware.
- Use RF test equipment such as vector network analyzers (VNA), spectrum analyzers, signal generators, power meters, and oscilloscopes.
- Troubleshoot RF performance issues and implement corrective design improvements.
- Prepare technical specifications, simulation reports, test plans, and design documentation.
- Collaborate with hardware, PCB layout, mechanical, manufacturing, and system engineering teams.
- Support prototype development, product qualification, and production testing.