Manager, RF Engineering

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Frederick, MD, US, 21703

The Leonardo DRS Airborne and Intelligence Systems business is a global leader and strategic partner committed to delivering world-class, full life-cycle defense and intelligence products that protect the security of our nation and our allies. From air combat training to state-of-the-art electronic warfare systems, our technology is deployed by virtually all U.S. military and government agencies around the world.

We are seeking a Manager, RF Engineering to lead the development of advanced RF and microwave products and subsystems within our Signal Solutions line of business. This role is responsible for technical leadership, execution, and development of the RF Engineering team supporting complex receiver, tuner, and RF subsystem development from concept through production.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in RF receiver and tuner architecture, component-level RF design, circuit-card development, RF simulation, integration, and troubleshooting, combined with strong engineering leadership and the ability to guide multidisciplinary product development.

This leader will manage and mentor RF engineers ranging from early-career engineers through senior technical experts while remaining actively engaged in technical decision-making, design reviews, architecture development, and complex problem resolution.

This role will be instrumental in advancing our RF engineering capabilities through model-based design, simulation, reusable architectures, design standardization, and improved design-to-test correlation, while ensuring successful execution across active programs and new business pursuits.

Involved with design, build, and test of cutting-edge analog and mixed-signal devices such as amplifiers, filters, and ADCs. Contribute to RF requirements analysis, definition, and management. Conduct functional analysis, performance analysis (e.g. Instantaneous Dynamic Range, Noise Figure, Pass Band Response, etc.), interface analysis, and definition for the design, integration, and verification of RF components, equipment, and systems.

• Responsible for supervising a team of engineers on an activity and completion of activity on time and budget
• Ability to supervise a technical group independently
• Manage budget, cost, and schedule input for design assignments
• Drive the program design to cost and design for manufacture requirements
• Communicate clearly (written and oral) with other company personnel and the customer as required
• Participate in preparation of proposals
• Supervise and direct the work of others as assigned
• Support, communicate, reinforce, and defend the mission, values, and culture of the organization
• Attend appropriate engineering, customer, or business meetings
• Manage / supervise a team of engineers
• Provide technical leadership for the architecture, design, development, integration, and verification of advanced RF receivers, tuners, and RF/microwave subsystems.
• Lead component-level and circuit-card-level RF development involving amplifiers, LNAs, mixers, filters, attenuators, switches, synthesizers/PLLs, frequency-conversion architectures, and associated RF components.
• Guide RF architecture and design trades involving frequency planning, gain distribution, noise figure, dynamic range, linearity, compression, IP2/IP3, spurious performance, phase noise, isolation, and sensitivity.
• Ensure effective use of RF modeling and simulation tools to predict and optimize performance prior to hardware implementation.
• Lead and participate in schematic reviews, component selection, design reviews, layout reviews, test-readiness reviews, and technical peer reviews.
• Drive correlation between simulation, lab measurements, qualification results, and production performance to improve design predictability and reduce development risk.
• Provide technical leadership during RF hardware bring-up, integration, troubleshooting, and root-cause investigations involving hardware, firmware, digital hardware, software, and test systems.
• Partner with Systems, Digital/FPGA, Embedded Software, Mechanical, PCB, Test Engineering, Manufacturing, and Program Management throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Ensure RF designs incorporate appropriate considerations for manufacturability, testability, reliability, environmental requirements, and production transition.
• Establish and improve reusable RF architectures, design practices, modeling approaches, analysis…