RF Electrophysics Engineer; Experienced

Job Description

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) is seeking an RF Electrophysics Engineer (Experienced) in El Segundo, CA. At Boeing, we are all innovators on a mission to connect, protect, explore and inspire. From the seabed to outer space, you’ll learn and grow, doing work that shapes the world. Find your future with us.

(All engineers will participate and work within the below scope of work appropriate to their technical capabilities)

• Generate unit or lower-level requirements documents. Support system and subsystem engineers to define unit or lower-level performance, interface and environmental requirements and respective verification methods

• Develops architectures to integrate systems and components into higher level systems and platforms

• Performs trade studies, modeling, simulation and other forms of analysis to predict component, interconnects and system performance and to optimize design around established requirements

• Creates and validates gain-loss budgets to understand RF performance over environmental conditions, life, and part-to-part variation

• Generate unit or lower-level test procedures

• Defines and conducts tests to validate performance of designs to requirements

• Provides support to products throughout lifecycle

• Works under general direction

This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at the listed location. This worksite participates in Boeing’s optional 9/80 schedule rotation. 9/80 is a rotation in which employees can work 9 hour shifts, 8 days per pay period (bi-weekly) and receive every other Friday off. Travel may be required up to 10% of the time;
Domestically depending on business needs.

• This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. An interim and/or final U.S. Top Secret Security Clearance Post-Start is required.

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (with a focus in Electrical, Mechanical or Aeronautical), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement

• 5+ years of related work experience

• Ability to effectively communicate in a cross-functional team environment

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering

• Demonstrated success in complex product development through qualification and production

• Test planning, development and execution including hands-on test experience

• Ability to obtain a Security Clearance for which the Government requires U.S. Citizenship (Top Secret/SCI)

• Ability to travel 10% of the time

• Knowledge in some, or all, of the following subjects:

  • Electromagnetics and RF/Microwave theory

  • RF circuit design and packaging techniques (active and passive)

  • RF Gain-Loss budget of cascaded RF circuits/systems

  • DAC/ADC configuration and optimization

  • Printed circuit board layout and design

  • Design tools: AWR Microwave Office, HFSS, ADS

Experienced, Level 3:
Education/experience typically acquired through advanced technical education from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), computer science, engineering data science, mathematics, physics or chemistry (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 5 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical…