Principal RF Antenna Design Engineer
Company | RTX |
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Location | Huntsville, AL, USA |
Salary | $101000 – $203000 |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD |
Experience Level | Senior, 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