Senior Principal RF Design Engineer
About The Position
The Effector RF Design Department designs RF and microwave hardware, including transmitters, receivers, and exciters, for radar and datalink applications on tactical missile programs. The work spans preliminary design through integration and includes design and test activities for equipment that must meet challenging mechanical constraints and operate in extreme environments. The Senior Principal RF Design Engineer designs and develops RF products and circuit card assemblies with RF or mixed signals. The role includes laboratory characterization, module verification and integration, testing and handling sensitive RF hardware, schematic capture, RF routing, and collaboration with interdisciplinary teams such as power, digital, and mechanical engineering. This is an onsite position in Tucson, Arizona.
Requirements
- Typically requires a bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 10 years of prior relevant experience.
- Relevant experience must include any combination of RF design and fabrication, RF testing and troubleshooting, and simulation of 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 special program access after starting.
- 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 complex RF products and defining requirements.
- Technical project team-lead experience, including cost and schedule responsibility.
- 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 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 testing 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.
- Work in a laboratory to characterize components and verify and integrate modules.
- 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, dental, and vision insurance.
- Life insurance.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- 401(k) match.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Flexible work schedules.
- Employee assistance program.
- Employee Scholar Program.
- Parental leave.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- Potential eligibility for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
