RF Design Engineer - Computational Electromagnetics

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Job Summary Battelle is seeking a Radio Frequency (RF) Microwave Design Engineer to work in the Electronic Warfare group within the Advanced Microsystem Solutions Business Line. The position is located at Battelle Headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. Travel may be required.

The Mid-Level RF/Microwave Design Engineer will be responsible for leading tasks during the development of complex RF/microwave transceiver systems. This role will design and model antenna along with multi-layer PCB with TX/RX components for Communications, Cyber and Electronic Warfare (EW) solution development. The candidate must have substantial experience in microwave/RF design techniques, impedance matching using Smith chart with EM simulation tools such as HFSS and experience validating designs using microwave test equipment.

This position will work closely with antenna engineers on state-of-the-art phased array antennas; foundational antenna theory knowledge is required along with phased array applications such as Electronic Beam Steering (EBS) and Direction Finding (DF). A successful candidate will be capable of making technical presentations to peers, program leadership, and customers and assist in new business development.

The candidate will provide technical leadership, subject matter expertise and individual execution within engineering projects requiring design, prototyping, analysis, testing, fabrication and integration of RF/microwave systems, cards and components into multi-disciplinary engineering solutions. These solutions provide essential capabilities to operators in a wide variety of domains including communications, signal intelligence, radar, cyber and EW.Responsibilities Ability to work independently, as well as direct and coordinate work of multi-disciplinary engineering teams to assure the successful development of RF systems and assemblies

Participate and foster the collaborative team culture of RF design through rigorous and iterative modeling, simulation, and measurement

Mentor and train junior engineers

Engineer design process development and maturation

Customer and sub-contractor coordination

Lead the creation of technical content for proposals and white papers

Create technical documentation, test plans and reports

Conduct experiments and testing in both a laboratory and field environment

Key Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (EE) or related field with 8 + years of experience, Master’s degree in EE or related field and 5 + years of experience or PhD in EE or related field and 2 + years of experience Microwave/RF system, subsystem and component analysis, design, prototyping and integrationECAD design experience using software suites such as Mentor Xpedition and PADS, Cadance Virtuoso and Allegro, and Altium Designer Knowledge of antenna fundamentals and radiation theory using Smith charts, impedance matching, radiation pattern.

Knowledge of microwave/RF circuits and transmission line theory to design single or multi-layer board including CPW, microstrip/strip line using impedance matching techniques utilizing modeling software

Experience using computational electromagnetics software HFSS and ADS (Momentum, FEM, etc) to create models from conceptual stage to final board layout

Experience of validating and debugging model/simulation to measurement…