RF Engineer, Senior

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Here you are part of a team pushing boundaries today to redefine the work of tomorrow for organizations, their employees, and those they serve. You’ll have opportunities to learn and lead in a forward-thinking environment, defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes you care about—locally and globally. Come make an impact every day at Zebra.

We are seeking a Senior RF Design Engineer to join our Handheld RF Engineering team! In this role, you will design, develop, model, and test RF transmitters and receivers in the 700MHz – 10GHz range. In addition, you will develop products from concept phase to production release working with in-house cross-functional teams as well as off-shore Joint-Development-Partners (JDMS). As a member of the Zebra Handheld team, you will be responsible to design and integrate multiple radios including 4G/5G WWAN, Wi-Fi, BT/BLE, GPS, NFC and UHF RFID into small, highly ruggedized form factors while delivering best in class RF performance.

The ideal candidate must have deep low-level RF circuit design expertise. Come, capture your edge with us! This role is on-site 3-days a week in Zebra's Holtsville, NY office; 2 days remote (US).

• Establishes requirements for moderately complex RF design projects.
• Performs RF analysis and simulation for design, optimization and debug.
• Drive sand/or Support customer and cross-functional issue debug for system level issues.
• Drives EMI/EMC trouble shooting and validation.
• Works with Antenna team members on system requirements, design, validation and debug.
• Works with internal cross-functional teams and external JDMs/CMs to successfully bring Handheld products to market and meet all standards/regulatory/carrier requirements.
• Drives RF lab capability development and works with Lab team on test strategy and new technology capability.
• Investigates and drives new technology and solutions to improve performance and productivity.
• Proactively researches, evaluates, and implements emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) and other techniques/tools to continuously improve RF design, testing, and system optimization processes.
• Drives and/or Supports customer and cross-functional issue debug for system level issues.
• Researches, evaluates, and implements emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques/tools to continuously improve RF design, testing, and system optimization processes.

• Bachelor's degree and 4+ year experience or Master's degree and 2+ year experience.
• Must have Experience with Board level RF circuit design.
• Must be familiar with VNA's, Spectrum Analyzers, Oscilloscopes, RF Power Meters.

• RF design experience in the 450MHz to 10GHz range.
• 5G WAN and/or Wi-Fi6/7 Experience highly preferred, GPS/BLE/RFID also a plus.
• Experience with the mobile product development lifecycle including carrier certification.
• RF Design for FCC/ETSI/3
  
  GPP compliance & recent success cases.
• Hands-on RF circuit/system testing experience including cabled and radiated methods.
• Noise / RF interference mitigation and troubleshooting methods.
• RF simulation experience with ADS and/or CST.

Zebra is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive…