Radio Frequency Engineer 3
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Job Description
Job #219704Chipton-Ross is seeking multiple Radio Frequency Engineer 3's for a contract opportunity in Rolling Meadows, IL.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS (REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE)
Basic Qualifications for Principal RF Engineer:
- Bachelors' degree in STEM field with a minimum 5+ years of electronics design experience or MS degree in STEM field with 3+ years of electronics design experience.
- RF/Analog circuit design experience, including schematic capture through test and integration
- Hands-on prototyping and debug experience testing complex RF subsystems, such as complex circuit card development involving amplifiers, mixers, control systems, ADCs, DACs, and/or phase lock loops
- Demonstrated ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications
- Familiarity with documentation, revision control and review systems like DOORS, ClearCase, and ClearQuest
- US Citizenship
- Must have Interim Secret clearance prior to starting and once started, must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
Basic Qualifications for Sr. Principal RF Engineer:
- Bachelors' degree in STEM field with a minimum 8 years of electronics design experience or MS degree in STEM field with 6 years of electronics design experience.
- RF/Analog circuit design experience, including schematic capture through test and integration
- Hands-on prototyping and debug experience testing complex RF subsystems, such as complex circuit card development involving amplifiers, mixers, control systems, ADCs, DACs, and/or phase lock loops
- Demonstrated ability to translate system performance and operational specifications into hardware requirements, design, and test specifications
- Familiarity with documentation, revision control and review systems like DOORS, ClearCase, and ClearQuest
- US Citizenship
- Must have Interim Secret clearance prior to starting and once started, must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
The Principal RF/Sr. Principal RF role involves full life-cycle product development from system concept and requirements through design, production, verification, and field support while working in integrated product teams spanning Engineering, Manufacturing, and Program Management. RF/Analog subsystem and circuit card designs utilize the latest MMIC and discrete device technologies from all major vendors including internal designed devices, Electro-Optical (EO) circuitry, controls, detectors and data converters. As an RF/Analog Electrical Engineer, you will join our diverse team and be responsible for research, design, development of signal conversion and analog/mixed signal products. Your expertise in RF, mixed signal, and/or Electro-Optical component design and analysis, modeling and simulation, and circuit level design and test are desired for this position.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS (DESIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE)
- An advanced degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering
- Minimum 7 years of RF and/or mixed signal electronics design experience
- Working knowledge of Electronic Warfare systems
- Recent circuit card design experience utilizing circuit-related tools including Cadence Concept, Allegro, and/or Mentor DxDesigner, Expedition
- Experience with Advanced Design System (ADS) and MatLab modeling tools
- Experience with SPICE modeling tools
- Proven skills to include: communicating with all levels of an organization internally and externally, adaptable, creative, collaborative and comfortable working independently and enjoy solving difficult problems
- Current Secret or Top-Secret security clearance
REQUIRED EDUCATION
- Bachelors' degree in STEM field is required.
- School must be accredited.
WORK HOURS
Full-Time 9/80 workweek. This position will serve on-site in Rolling Meadows, IL.
ADDITIONAL
Applicants responding to this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements by currently possessing the ability to view classified government information.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- Applicants responding to this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements by currently possessing the ability to view classified government information.
- Employment will be contingent on clearing a drug screen and background check. Both must clear prior to start date.
- Candidates responding to this posting must currently possess the eligibility to work in the United States. No third parties please.
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