Specialist, RF Design Engineer

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Job description

Job Title: Specialist, RF Design Engineer

Job Code: 13219

Job Location: Palm Bay, FL

Job Description:

The L3Harris Space and Airborne Systems segment is seeking an RF Design Engineer to support advanced RF/Microwave design and development activities, while leveraging their experience in RF hardware to fulfill our customers' complex missions. This RF design role involves optimizing RF performance through research, design, development, and verification, while supporting customer programs, IRAD projects, technical trade studies, proposals, and providing guidance to engineering teams. Success will be achieved through utilization of a diverse array of RF simulation tools and laboratory equipment, to create innovative hardware solutions while ensuring our commitment to design excellence.

Mission:

Embark on a stellar career journey with L3Harris' Space Systems Sector, an integral component of the L3Harris Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) Segment. Our portfolio comprises a constellation of sophisticated systems, engineered to accomplish an array of critical missions with precision and reliability. Our cutting-edge innovations deliver a diverse spectrum of customer applications that traverse the celestial expanses of space as well as complex, ground-based terrestrial systems. The RF Design team fuels innovation within the beautiful, state-of-the-art, LEED-certified L3Harris High Technology Center (HTC). Launch your exciting career with L3Harris!

Essential Functions:

• RF/Microwave hardware experience including research, design, development, and verification to optimize RF hardware performance
• Work on a multi-disciplinary team to achieve complex RF hardware design specifications according to customer requirements
• Troubleshoot RF hardware to the component level
• Assist other engineers as needed

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.
• Experience designing critical RF performance characteristics of passive and active components such as amplifiers, oscillators, attenuators, mixers, filters, splitters, couplers, phase shifters, VCOs, PLLs, etc.
• Experience using RF simulation and analysis tools including ADS, HFSS, SystemVue, MATLAB, etc.
• Experience with RF Link Budget Analysis, including nonlinear effects and their remedies (intermodulation, IP3, IP2, group delay variation, and dynamic range).
• Experience with S-parameters, matching networks, cascade analysis, gain budget analysis (gain, noise figure, linearity, noise power, etc.), filtering (bandwidth, types, implementations, etc.), signal analysis (Eb/No, BER vs. noise, receiver sensitivity), temperature effects, and isolation
• Experience using RF lab equipment including Network Analyzers, Signal/Spectrum Analyzers, Oscilloscopes, Signal Generators, RF Power Sensors, etc.
• Schematic and PCB layout experience using Xpedition or Cadence

Preferred Additional Skills

• MMIC or RFIC Design Experience
• Phased Array Experience
• TS/SCI Clearance preferred
• RF Hybrid Experience integrating diverse RF components on a single substrate with precision ribbon wire interconnections
• MATLAB experience for data analysis

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