Job overview
Job summary 6 Months - Cowes ( Hybrid working) - £81.05/h UMB
Key skills
RF engineer, design engineer, electronics
Principal RF Design Engineer – Job description
Position Description: This is a senior technical role relating to the Radio Frequency (RF) aspects of hardware design. The Role Holder will:
* Apply depth and breadth of design expertise and knowledge to generate RF design solutions for both new products and technology insertions into legacy products.
* Be capable of generating detailed designs from concept to completion and addressing a range of complex engineering issues.
* Typically act as an engineering, technical, or design authority for a Line Replacement Unit or sub-system.
Core duties
* Detailed RF circuit design including component selection, evaluation, simulation, schematic capture, and preparing guidance for PCB design teams.
* Electromagnetic simulation and analysis.
* Specification of bespoke procured hardware.
* Design verification using a combination of simulation, analysis, and test techniques including support to EMC test houses and customer installations.
* Integration activities in a complex equipment environment.
* Generates design documentation and technical reports. Vets documentation generated by others.
* Interfacing with related disciplines including systems engineering, mechanical/thermal engineering, Integrated Logistics Support, Safety, Product Data Management, and manufacturing areas.
* Adherence to Engineering Lifecycle and conducting progress, peer, and design reviews.
* Contribute to bids, proposals, and estimates.
* Provide technical leadership and guidance on RF engineering matters.
* Develops, promotes and shares new technologies for implementation across businesses and programme(s).
* May lead a team of engineers including line management responsibility.
The role holder will have
* A degree in Electronic Engineering or strongly related subject.
* Substantial experience of generating component level designs for introduction into volume production.
* Substantial experience of developing firmware.
* Previous experience of operating in a defence or high safety integrity environment.
* Substantial experience of design proving, integration, and defect resolution.
* Substantial experience of gathering of evidence to support acceptance, fitness for purpose, legislative requirements, and safety.
Role responsibilities
* Requires an understanding of how activities of own teams interrelates and interacts with other functional areas aligned to the same discipline and project.
* Understands in detail the technical specification aligned to the functional area of activity.
* Requires a limited understanding of the external environment.
Leadership
* Provides advice and guidance to others within the same team or same discipline area.
* Within the team, project or discipline is recognised by others as a source of authoritative knowledge and is sought out for advice & mentoring.
Problem Solving
* The role holder performs analysis, evaluation and resolution of complex engineering issues and specifications.
* Developing innovative and creative solutions to challenging engineering problems and issues.
Nature of Impact
* The role holder is accountable for the quality and delivery of own work schedule. The job has a direct impact on the quality of the overall solution provided by the team.
Area of Impact
* The role holder has an impact on the activities and effectiveness of developments associated with own team and engineering solution.
Interpersonal Skills
* Requires strong communication, diplomacy and interpersonal skills. Typically communication will be internally focused but may include limited communication and interface with external contacts and customers.
* Is required to influence, guide and convince others to adopt a particular course of action.
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