Senior RF Electronics Engineer

Great Chesterford

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Are you an experienced RF engineer who would like the chance to work on a wide variety of the worlds most impactful and modern RF engineering challenges?

Are you motivated by working with a highly competent and well renowned team of subject matter experts, with the latest and greatest RF labs and equipment at your disposal?

Our client are driven by innovation. Pushing the boundaries of RF engineering in every area of product development you can imagine. With their work being found in products all around earth (and in space!), from mobile communications, to fast moving sensors, to robotics, IoT and much much more. So if you want every day to be interesting, and each project to present a new challenge, read on.

You will be involved at every stage of each project, from requirements capture and project specifications, through to design, including working with clients (both technical and non-technical) to ensure that the projects are realistically deliverable and well understood and agreed upon. So it's crucial that the successful RF engineer has excellent communication skills and is happy to work with both internal and external stakeholders.

Requirements for application

Excellent academic experience in RF or Electronics fields (preferably MEng / PhD leve)
Senior level post-graduate experience in designing RF-based circuits - preferably with experience leading teams or projects
Experience of the product lifecycle from requirement capture to final delivery.
Microwave, RF, analogue design and simulation skills (digital design is beneficial but not required)
Amplifier, filter and frequency synthesiser design.
A desire to work on a wide range of product types. Evidence of that is beneficial
Experience of a range of frequencies, high frequency is particularly beneficial due to the nature of many modern products
Eligible for security clearance without restriction

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