Lead RF Design Engineer

Firm: PA Consulting

Location:

Melbourn, United Kingdom

Full-time

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. We help clients adapt and transform, achieving enduring results. We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists with deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence, energy, financial services, government, life sciences, transport, and more.

We operate globally with offices in the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

We are looking for candidates with the following technical skills:

• RF Circuit Design and Testing
  • Designing and simulating RF circuits (amplifiers, oscillators, mixers).
  • Experience with PCB layout for high‑frequency signals.
  • Hands‑on testing with spectrum analysers, network analysers, signal generators.
• Antenna Design and Measurement
  • Designing, simulating, and optimizing antennas.
  • Conducting antenna pattern measurements and gain tests.
• Wireless Communication Systems – working with protocols and standards (Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, LTE, 5G, etc.).
• Familiarity with modulation schemes and multiplexing techniques.
• RF simulation software (ADS, HFSS, CST, MATLAB) for circuit, antenna, and system design.
• Good experience within wider digital electronics and embedded systems engineering fields.
• Exposure to the full product lifecycle from concept generation through to product release, including demonstrable experience of delivering designs into service or mass production.
• Proven track record of designing for compliance with UK, EU, and US regulatory standards.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable explaining complex engineering concepts to both technical and non‑technical audiences.

• Hands‑on and willing to work through challenges from first principles on the bench.
• Energy and enthusiasm to tackle unfamiliar challenges, innovate, and think freely.
• Enthusiastic about mentoring less experienced engineers.

• Degree‑qualified; a strong degree in electronic engineering or a related subject.
• Ability to gain UK SC security clearance if not already acquired (requires sole UK nationality).

• Private healthcare for you and your family.
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve, with the opportunity to purchase 5 additional days).
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Community and charity‑based initiatives involvement.
• Annual performance‑based bonus.
• PA share ownership.
• Tax‑efficient benefits (cycle‑to‑work, give‑as‑you‑earn).

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

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