🚀 Senior RF Engineer

Overview

Continental Electronics Corporation is a leading provider of RF technologies and innovative solutions with over 75 years of proven performance. CEC has experienced significant growth and is a go-to supplier for a diversified product line supporting markets from commercial products and military customers to space research laboratories.

The Senior RF Engineer is an Individual Contributor with proficiency in electrical engineering subjects such as RF, digital and analog design. This role involves engineering work, applied research, development, and design of new state-of-the-art transmission and receive systems. It targets engineers who enjoy working in a systems environment, including designing multiple electrical elements of a product, interacting with mechanical and software teams, developing PCB and system requirements, and supporting system test teams.

Responsibilities

• Ideate and design critical capabilities needed for future product capabilities and cost reduction for transmit and receive solutions
• Maintain a high level of technical competence and state-of-the-art awareness of ultra-high power RF communication systems
• Support assessment of the feasibility of new business opportunities
• Identify customer technical expectations and communicate to the project team
• Perform detailed technical analysis and design at the subsystem or system level using tools such as Matlab/Simulink, RF Pathwave, Ansys HFSS, Spice, Feko, etc.
• Provide technical expertise and leadership on programs, working with the Program Manager and Project Engineering Lead, to mentor the development team to achieve the committed product functionality within the timeline of the contract
• Support all customer, contract and regulatory technical compliance
• Support critical suppliers for evaluation of the supplier's solution and testing to meet customer and regulatory requirements at proposal and/or project stages
• Anticipate and manage technical risks on projects and develop mitigation plans
• Support site installations and troubleshooting as needed, as a system expert, in support of the Field Service Representative team
• Champion and implement cross-team collaboration and continuous improvement in product designs and engineering practices, with a mindset for subsystem reuse

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar, with 10 or more years of relevant experience
• Deeply skilled at translating system-level requirements to implementation
• Extensive RF fundamental knowledge such as impedance matching, distributed systems, passive RLC and resonant circuits, noise, linearity, bandwidth and stability
• Experience with mixed signal design, specifically one or more of the following: SoC/FPGAs, A/D Converters, Digital Down Converters, D/A Converters, Digital Waveform Generators, Mixed Signal CCAs, Mixed Signal Modules and Subsystems
• Able to create schematics and wire lists; excellent problem-solving and lab debugging skills; hands-on experience in RF tuning and using RF instruments
• Experience with VLF/LF through X-Band transmitter and receiver design
• Exceptional verbal and written skills and the ability to influence others for optimum interaction with project teams, management and customers, as well as creating required technical documentation
• Ability to thrive in a highly dynamic work environment with various concurrent projects and competing priorities
• Must be a US citizen and able to obtain a security clearance within one year (per client requirements)
• Some travel will be required

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision and ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations will be made.

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