RF Design Engineer II
About The Position
The Effector RF Design Department designs RF and microwave hardware, including transmitters, receivers, and exciters. Its work spans preliminary design through integration and supports radar and datalink applications on tactical missile programs. The role involves designing hardware for challenging mechanical constraints and extreme environments. This onsite position is located in Tucson, Arizona. The engineer designs and develops RF products and circuit card assemblies, performs laboratory characterization, verification, and integration, handles sensitive RF hardware, and collaborates with interdisciplinary teams.
Requirements
- Typically, a bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 2 years of prior relevant experience.
- Experience with RF design and fabrication.
- Experience with RF testing and troubleshooting.
- Experience simulating RF products.
- Experience with Mentor DX Designer or equivalent, HFSS or equivalent, SystemVue/Genesys or equivalent, or ADS or equivalent.
- Ability to obtain an interim U.S. government-issued security clearance before the start date and obtain special program access after start.
- U.S. citizenship is required because only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Mentorship or apprenticeship experience.
- Technical oversight responsibilities for less-senior engineers.
- Experience working across domains on complex projects.
- Experience architecting and defining requirements for complex RF products.
- Technical project leadership experience, including cost and schedule responsibilities.
- EVMS or CAM experience.
- Ability to prepare documentation with minimal oversight.
- Background designing for manufacturability, producibility, and cost constraints, including yield and margin analysis.
- Technical background in cascade analysis and/or frequency planning.
- Filter design and fabrication experience.
- Circuit card assembly design and fabrication experience.
- Experience testing or designing RF hybrid (chip and wire) technologies.
- High-speed data converter test or characterization experience.
- High-power RF design or test experience.
- Scripting experience with Matlab or Python.
- Some frontline leadership experience.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop transmitters, receivers, or exciters.
- Design circuit card assemblies (CCAs) with RF or mixed signals.
- Perform component characterization, module verification, and integration in a laboratory.
- Test and handle sensitive RF hardware.
- Perform schematic capture and RF routing.
- Partner with interdisciplinary teams, including power, digital, and mechanical teams.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance based on candidate eligibility.
- Medical insurance.
- Dental insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- Life insurance.
- Short-term disability insurance.
- Long-term disability insurance.
- 401(k) match.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Flexible work schedules.
- Employee assistance program.
- Employee Scholar Program.
- Parental leave.
- Paid time off.
- Holidays.
- Potential eligibility for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs; payments are not guaranteed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
