Senior RF Engineer

ECM Selection
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
8 months ago
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This varied client-facing role will engage your high speed electronics and RF design skills and keep you engaged with projects across a wide range of industry sectors and application areas.

Joining this multidisciplinary engineering team, you will contribute to projects ranging from biotech to defence and consumer electronics, and become an authority within the team for RF design. Projects may touch on areas such as low power RF and satellite communications, management of robot fleets, and wearables, to name just a few. As you progress in the role your remit may broaden to include leadership or business development aspects.

You will need:
• An excellent academic background with a 1st or 2.1 in electronics or a closely related subject from a highly ranked university.
• Previous RF design experience within a commercial setting.
• Excellent practical skills in electronics design, including RF Low Noise and Power Amplifiers, and low noise switch mode power supplies.
• Confident communication skills, happy and able to discuss technical issues in depth with clients.
• Full existing and unrestricted right to work in the UK and eligibility for a UK Security clearance as the role may include work on defence projects.

Whilst not essential, any experience of the following would enhance your application: antenna design, CST, HFSS, Microwave Office, Keysight ADS, design-for-testing, EMC, Altium Designer.

This is a great opportunity to apply your skills, broaden your experience, gain new skills, and work with expert colleagues from diverse technical backgrounds to create inventive solutions to interesting challenges. The company culture encourages professional development, and training is available to help round out engineering skill sets.

Keywords: RF Design, High Speed Electronics, PCBs, LNAs, Power Amps, Altium Designer, Client-Facing, Cambridge

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