Principal RF Design Engineer

Our client, a large Aerospace and Defence supplier is looking for a Principal RF Design Engineer to join them on a contract basis at their site in Edinburgh, Luton or Newcastle.

Due to the nature of the role, applicants must hold the British nationality and be eligible to obtain SC Clearance.
6 month initial contract, likely to extend.
£ Inside IR35.This is an exciting opportunity for you as an engineer to bring your skillset and knowledge into our working environment. You will be involved in developing a range of multifunctional RF, PCB and Module designs using the latest technologies available and enhancing your understanding of key design and manufacture processes.

As an RF/Microwave engineer, you will be responsible for;

Full hardware lifecycle for our products: from system concept, through detailed design and prototyping, test and verification, system integration and support in production.
Creating high quality and robust designs, conducting design reviews for your design, fully documenting and recording your work products, keeping them under configuration management and providing plans and progress reports.
Developing a range of multifunctional RF PCB and Module designs using the latest technologies available and enhancing your understanding of key design and manufacture processes.
Designing to test, creating test prototypes for design validation, verification of development models and support for production test.
Carrying out all detail design activities from requirements capture to design verification.
Ensuring design reviews are completed successfully.
Preparing robust manufacturing data packs and provide technical support to sub-contracts and engineering interface with manufacturing.
Working closely with Systems, Test and Electronics engineers you will be solving real integration problems on advanced systemsWhat we need from you:

Microwave PCB materials & design techniques.
RF Microwave Sub-System Design.
Microwave design tools - e.g. AWR, VSS, ADS, Systemvue, Matlab.
EM 3D and 2D simulation techniques - e.g. CST.
GaAs/GaN MMIC design and application
RF Synthesiser design, using DDS and PLL technologies
RF downconverter and digitiser design
Design of passive microwave structures.
Low phase noise design and measurement
Non-linear circuit simulation.
PCB schematic capture tools - e.g. Mentor.
Lab measurements such as signal generation, spectrum analysis and vector network analysis
Microwave component selection.
Requirements capture and management.
Technical report writing
Design reviews and lifecycle management
Design for manufacture and cost