Company Description
ClientSolv Technologies is an IT solution firm with over a decade of experience serving Fortune 1000 companies, public sector and small to medium sized companies. ClientSolv Technologies is a woman-owned and operated company that is certified as a WMBE, 8a firm by the Federal government's Small Business Administration.
Job Description
We are seeking a Senior RF Engineer for a direct hire/permanent role in Gaithersburg, MD. This role will work collaboratively onsite/in the office Monday-Friday during normal business hours (there are no remote options).
In this role, you will be involved in the design and testing of state-of-the-art RF and phased-array antenna systems for next-generation LEO/MEO/GEO satellite communication systems. You will be instrumental in designing and developing innovative solutions to serve customers in fixed, aeronautical, land-mobile, and maritime domains.
RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Analyze system requirements and develop system architectures for RF and baseband subsystems.
• Develop subsystem requirements, specifications, and technical evaluations
• Conduct link budgets analyses, block and signal level analyses, and trade-off studies
• Analyze RF performance and conduct simulations and measurements to determine signal integrity, cross-talk, coupling, noise, insertion loss, return loss.
• Develop algorithms for calibration of antenna subsystems in fixed and mobile user terminal installations
• Develop constellation modeling and analyses for LEO/MEO/GEO satellite systems and conduct analyses against regulatory masks.
• Document detailed designs and present them internally and to external customers

Qualifications
REQUIREMENTS :

• Master's degree in electrical engineering or related field
• 10 years expertise in communications systems theory and analysis including link budgets, signal propagation, phase noise, EVM, non-linear effects, etc.
• 5 years of experience with microwave circuit design in industry.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• PhD in electrical engineering
• Strong analytical skills and modeling skills for RF performance in LEO/MEO/GEO systems
• Experience with HFSS/CST, ADS, and MATLAB simulation tools
• Familiarity with a variety of RF printed circuit technologies including stripline, microstrip, co-planar waveguide.
• Familiarity with high density PC board interconnect methods including micro-via, blind and buried via, in RF and microwave environments.
• Design experience with LNAs, power amplifiers, active RFIC technologies, directional couplers, frequency converters, mixers, frequency synthesizers.
• Familiar with test equipment like vector network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, noise figure meters, power meters, vector signal analyzers.
• Knowledgeable about electronic beam forming, beam steering and array synthesis.
• Able to make antenna pattern measurements including gain, beam-width, sidelobe levels, co and cross polarization levels, Return loss, coupling factors

Additional Information
This direct hire/permanent role will be located in Gaithersburg, MD. This role will work collaboratively onsite/in the office Monday-Friday during normal business hours (there are no remote options).