RF Engineer II (Clearance Required)

Sierra Nevada Corporation • Louisville, CO

86d • $90,805 - $113,520

About The Position

Are you ready to unleash your technical creativity? Dream, Innovate, Inspire and Empower the next generation to transform humanity through technology and imagination! As an RF Engineer III, you will be using your skills and expertise to design, develop, and test our complex products and technologies. These cover a very wide range from state of the art mission payloads and electronic systems through highly integrated aircraft to orbital and space exploration systems. You'll be responsible for RF front-end design, radio propagation modeling and prediction, microwave path analysis, interference analysis and filter design, RF frequency planning, analog-to-digital conversion, and circuit design.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in RF Engineering or related Engineering discipline.
• Typically 2 or more years of relevant experience.
• Thorough understanding of engineering principles and practices.
• Progressive experience working in multi-disciplinary design & development teams.
• Current and Active Secret, or above, U.S. Security Clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of industry standard RF principles as they apply to design, analysis, and test.
• Understanding of techniques to perform RF analysis such as Cosite, E3 integration, link budgets, and antenna patterns.
• Experience with analysis software applications such as ANSYS HFSS, ANSYS EMIT, ANSYS SAVANT/SBR+, Keysight GENESIS, Sonnet Professional, AWR Microwave Office, AWR Visual Systems Simulator (VSS), and MATLAB.
• Experience with schematic capture and PCB layout & viewer tools such as Mentor Graphics Xpedition, PADS Power Logic and Layout, Gerbtool.
• Capable of developing substantiation documentation to demonstrate compliance to related requirements and industry standards.
• Experience with RF test equipment such as Vector Network Analyzers, Spectrum Analyzers and Signal Generators.
• Experience in designing and verifying to MIL-STD-464 and test procedures of MIL-STD-461.
• Background in the Aerospace and Defense Industry, US Department of Defense and/or US Military.
• Knowledgeable of industry standard RF assemblies and component selection.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test complex RF products and technologies.
• Conduct RF front-end design and radio propagation modeling.
• Perform microwave path analysis and interference analysis.
• Design filters and plan RF frequencies.
• Handle analog-to-digital conversion and circuit design.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans.
• 401(k) with 150% match up to 8%.
• Life insurance.
• 3 weeks paid time off.
• Annual incentive pay based upon performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree