RF Chief Engineer

Job Description

The functional domain for this Chief Engineer position is RF and Microwave design. This covers receiver, transmitter, and frequency synthesizer designs operating from S-Band to K-Band,, and Multiple-input Multiple-output (MIMO). The future of Radar applications in Aerospace and Defense domains, to include Electronically Steered Array Systems, Traffic & Surveillance, Radio Navigation Systems (including Next Gen Global Navigation System Multi-Constellation Systems), 5G Radar Altimeter, Data Link Solutions, Defense Sensor Solutions, and SATCOM, requires cost-effective, high-performance RF technology.

The functional domain for this Chief Engineer position is RF and Microwave design. This covers receiver, transmitter, and frequency synthesizer designs operating from S-Band to K-Band,, and Multiple-input Multiple-output (MIMO). The future of Radar applications in Aerospace and Defense domains, to include Electronically Steered Array Systems, Traffic & Surveillance, Radio Navigation Systems (including Next Gen Global Navigation System Multi-Constellation Systems), 5G Radar Altimeter, Data Link Solutions, Defense Sensor Solutions, and SATCOM, requires cost-effective, high-performance RF technology.

Successful candidate will oversee, guide, and support NPI & BTI development, Diminished Manufacturing Sources (DMS) activities, and the full product life cycle as the resident RF design subject matter expert. This position will report to the Sr. Director of Engineering, Missiles and Sensors.

• Be a change leader
• Establish highly collaborative environment/relationship across the Honeywell Aerospace organization and Product line leaders.
• Guide effective deployment of improvement ideas. Champion improvements with project teams, identify and remove roadblocks.
• Function as the RF SME for company-wide RF systems and spokesperson with suppliers, customers, and regulatory authorities.
• Interact with the internal product chief engineers, and external as needed in discussions with customer subject matter expert (SME) or as the expert to help understand Honeywell’s offering in lieu of a customer SME.
• Lead and advocate value-added certification process changes and improvements. Share lessons learned across business and projects.
• Multiple global RF design and RF Manufacturing engineers exist across the many Honeywell products, and the RF Functional Chief would have design authority over them, providing many opportunities to train and mentor individuals as well as develop succession plans for their own role.

• Own the roadmap for the RF product and technology portfolios that would feed into the equivalent roadmaps for products like those listed above.
• Drive process infrastructure, architectures and strategies for the RF Design domain, embracing industry trends, customer feedback/needs and competitive intelligence data
• Review and approve RF Architecture and solution proposals ensuring they comply with customer and business requirements and align with internal technology and re-use strategies
• Work across the Honeywell Aerospace organization and be the leader in disseminating competitive intelligence into the domain’s roadmaps.
• Identify impactful, transformational RF design improvement ideas
• Reviews and analyzes Voice of the Customer (VOC) and Competitive Intelligence (CI) data to drive RF design strategies.
• Provide oversight and guidance in defining the RF design, modeling, and verification approaches for new products and technologies to address customer needs, competitive challenges, or disruptors.
• Demonstrated debugging skills with experience in Root Cause Corrective Action, and failure analysis processes and presentations.
• Su…