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 recent growth and has established itself as the go-to supplier for a diversified product line supporting a wide spectrum of markets from commercial products, 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, who performs engineering work and applied research, development, and design of new state-of-the-art transmission and receive systems. The opportunity is targeted toward engineers who enjoy working in a systems environment as it includes designing multiple electrical elements of a product, interacting with mechanical and software team members, developing PCB and system requirements, and supporting system test teams.

• Ideate and design critical capabilities needed for future product capabilities and cost reduction needs 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’s 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 in collaboration with the Program Manager and Project Engineering Lead, to mentor the development team to achieve the committed product functionality in the timeline of the agreed contract
• Support all customer, contract and regulatory technical compliance
• Support critical suppliers for evaluation of the supplier’s solution, and testing, in terms of being able to meet the customer and regulatory requirements at the proposal and/or project stages
• Anticipate and manage technical risks on the 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 & implement cross-team/intra-team collaboration and continuous improvement in product designs and engineering practices, with a mindset for subsystem reuse

• 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 US citizen and able to be approved for clearance within one year (per client requirements)
• Some travel will be required

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 to enable 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 and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision and ability to adjust focus.

Reasonable accommodations will be made.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Please review our benefits here:
Life  specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location and date of hire. Salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.