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Principal RF Antenna Design Engineer

Principal RF Antenna Design Engineer

CompanyRTX
LocationHuntsville, AL, USA
Salary$101000 – $203000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s, Master’s, PhD
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • Requires a Bachelor’s in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience to include the following:
  • Leading antenna designs through concept trades, design, and qualification
  • Antenna simulation and modeling with at least one of the following tools: HFSS, CST, FEKO, SENTRi and/or GRASP
  • Antenna measurements in near or far field systems
  • Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Responsibilities

  • Development and detailed design antenna or radome hardware and requirements
  • Work with interdisciplinary engineering teams including thermal, structural, mechanical, systems, etc.
  • Work with antenna manufacturing suppliers
  • Analyze simulation and test data to verify performance to requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master of Science (MS) or PhD in electrical engineering
  • Experience managing and presenting technical data to stakeholders and customers in design reviews and technical interchange meetings
  • Experience presenting to FRB, ERB, CCB, MRB, etc.
  • Experience with being a Cost Account Manager or Integrate Product Team Lead
  • Mentorship experience, technical oversight responsibilities for less-senior engineers
  • Technical background in the following areas:
  • Experience designing and delivering conformal antenna designs
  • Understanding and ability to design near-field-to-far-field processing algorithms
  • Understanding of complex threat environments and battlefields
  • Experience designing datalink, flight termination, and telemetry antenna systems
  • Experience designing GPS antenna systems
  • Proficiency with Python, MATAB and/or other high level scientific programming languages
  • Proficiency with high performance computing (HPC) environments and schedulers