Job Description
Job Overview:
Lead the systems level design and analysis for electronically steered antenna arrays for land vehicle applications, specify systems requirements and manage design compliance throughout the engineering development lifecycle.
Technical Responsibilities:
* Work with the Project Engineering Manager, to develop existing system architecture designs and derive new designs to meet future product requirements.
* Deliver system level modelling and analysis to predict performance to system requirement specifications, on your own and through leadership of others.
* Capture product requirements working with Business Development Team. Understand the customer needs to support design decisions and interpret the impact of customer requirements on system level specifications.
* Own system level requirement specifications, working with the wider engineering team to capture and derive the requirements flow-down from product level to engineering functions, including mechanical, hardware and software.
* Identify and interpret safety, mechanical, thermal, environmental, EMC/EMI and other applicable standards to provide flow down of requirements to the engineering functions.
* Produce documentation, specifications and reports to an excellent standard to support quality assurance.
* Characterise, analyse and provide insight on system performance for key RF, software, mechanical and digital parameters.
* Specify verification approach and ensure compliance with requirements at module and system level.
* Lead customer engineering liaison and delivery of customer design activities, managing possible risks and opportunities when required.
* Support the wider technical deliverables required for product development, such as lifecycle management, methods development, peer reviews, procurement support and lab testing
Organisational Responsibilities:
* Provide engineering development lifecycle process leadership and mentoring to the wider engineering team.
* Identify and implement continuous improvements associated with the product development lifecycle. Author and maintain processes as required.
* Work with the engineering teams across multiple disciplines to integrate technology requirements into the systems, software, electrical and RF design.
* Take responsibility for multi-disciplinary engineering projects and delivery to tight timescales, communicating through plans, presentations and written reports.
* Management of small engineering teams and subcontractors for design, analysis, testing and manufacturing.
* The role will be primarily based at the company’s London office.
Qualifications & Skills:
Essential:
* A good first or Upper 2nd Class degree (BEng/MEng) in Engineering or equivalent work-based qualifications.
* 12+ years in systems, RF and antenna product design
* Experience of systems design for aerospace applications and aerospace qualification procedures
* Experience of systems design and integration of RF products (GHz range), from early concept through to development testing.
* Competent practical experience of RF system integration and testing.
* Requirements derivation and management using recognised systems engineering tools
Desirable:
* Postgraduate Engineering Degree or Undergraduate Engineering Masters Degree
* Design and analysis of complex electro-mechanical systems
* Experience of systems design for land mobile SatCom terminals
* Electronic PCB and mechanical integration.
* Product development of SatCom antennas (preferably Ku and/or Ka) with RF Test Chamber and field testing experience.
* System simulation and algorithm development using MATLAB, Python, C++ or other high level language.
* Failure mode and effect analysis applied to system functional behaviour