Electrical Engineer - RF Design

Role : Electrical Engineer - RF Design
Location : Rochester, NY
Type : FTE/Permanent
Job Schedule: 5/8: Employees work 8 hours per day, 5 days a week


Job Description:
As a member of the Product Support Engineering team, you will be tasked with investigating a variety of problems including RF/Analog, assembly, SMT and test related. thorough understanding of radio transmitter and receiver design is required. You will collaborate across multifunctional teams to diagnose problems to component level, determining solutions via simulation and experimentation and implementing corrective actions.


Typical tasks include:

• Provide guidance to junior staff. Assisting them as they investigate problems. Leading investigations and coordinating tasks.
• Mitigating component shortages through qualifying alternatives or redesigning circuits and sub-assemblies.
• Working with design engineering and manufacturing teams to introduce new designs into manufacturing.
• Working with design engineering to make necessary circuit changes prior to and during the launch of new products.
• Troubleshooting unit, modules, and boards to the component level.

Essential Functions:

• Hardware troubleshooting ability including analog and RF components and circuits.
• Ability to design and conduct engineering experiments and act upon test results.
• Design and analysis of circuits and components utilizing ADS, Matlab and various design and simulation tools.
• Ability to use typical lab equipment: Oscilloscope, DMM, Spectrum & Network analyzers, and signal generators.
• Able to analyze designs and communicate technical information to support staff.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
• RF experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Electrical engineering degree.
• Experience with tactical Radio and Power Amplifier HW.
• Experience troubleshooting to component level.
• Working knowledge of LabVIEW, ADS and Jira.