RF Engineer Principal

Mercury Systems is seeking the best and brightest talent to help us bring cutting edge technology to mission critical aerospace and defense applications, advancing innovation where it matters most.

The Engineering team is looking for a Principal RF Engineer who will provide hands‑on technical leadership to a team developing advanced RF Systems for exciting defense applications.

You will have the opportunity to demonstrate technical acumen with technical leadership and cross‑functional collaboration skills.

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the detailed design of RF circuits, modules, and subsystems.
• Provide technical inputs to program plans and proposals
• Resolve complex technical issues for product manufacturing and test
• Foster skill development for less experience d engineers
• Collaborate and effectively communicate while acting as the technical lead for development programs and production products

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• Typically requires 7 years of experience in High Reliability, Aerospace, or Defense Electronics product development and manufacturing.
• Experience providing technical leadership to an integrated product development team.
• Extensive experience in testing / troubleshooting RF/Microwave, analog, digital, and mixed signal circuits.
• Expertise using RF simulation software (Microwave Office, AWR, ADS, HFSS).
• Experience transferring new designs to production.
• Familiarity with RF theory.
• Travel up to 10%.
• Active Security Clearance required on day 1.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in electrical engineering or a related field.
• Experience with design and test of phased arrays.
• Experience with antenna test ranges.
• Familiarity Antenna theory.
• Experience using data analysis tools such as MATLAB.
• Experience in failure analysis / Root-Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) investigations.

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This position requires you to have an active government security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens.

Fulltime Equivalent Job Grade Salary Range for this position

• $87,100.00 - $ annual salary for in-office or hybrid employees in FL, GA, IN, AZ, AL, MD or TX, and all remote employees
• $97,600.00 - $ annual salary for in-office or hybrid employees in VA, CA, NH or MA
• $ - $ annual salary for in-office or hybrid employees in NJ

Mercury considers a variety of factors to determine individual base salary offers to candidates, including:

• the role and related responsibilities;
• education, training, skills and certifications;
• internal equity with others employed by Mercury in similar roles;
• geographic location; and
• alignment with market data.

In addition to base salary, Mercury provides a variety of benefits for team members including:

• bonus opportunities (or special incentives for sales positions);
• health, life and disability insurance;
• company-paid holidays and time off;
• discounted employee stock purchase plan;
• tuition reimbursement; and
• access to professional development and personal wellness platforms including Linked In Learning, Headspace, Aaptiv and Virgin Pulse.

Team members at the Director or Vice President level are also eligible to receive annual stock-based awards.

Mercury offers a 9/80 alternative work schedule that provides employees more opportunity for work/ life balance (available based off location)

Why should you join Mercury Systems?

Mercury Systems is a technology company that makes the world a safer, more secure place. We push processing power to the tactical edge, making the latest commercial technologies profoundly more accessible for today's most challenging aerospace and defense missions. From silicon to system scale, Mercury enables customers to accelerate innovation and turn data into…