RF/Wireless Engineer

• We're looking for an RF/Wireless Engineer to play a key role in designing and delivering advanced, mission-critical RF hardware for military communications systems.
• In this senior technical position, you'll apply your RF and microwave expertise to architect, design, integrate, and verify high-performance hardware supporting demanding defense applications.
• You'll work closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams to develop innovative RF solutions from initial architecture through development, production, and sustainment.

• Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
• Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
• People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
• Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.

• This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.

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• Develop RF architectures and hardware designs for advanced communication systems, translating system requirements into circuit card-, module-, and subsystem-level solutions.
• Perform RF and analog design, analysis, modeling, simulation, integration, and verification of high-frequency and microwave circuitry, including amplifiers, oscillators, attenuators, mixers, and filters.
• Lead circuit card and subsystem development activities, including design reviews, S-parameter and gain-budget analysis, filtering design, and verification testing.
• Collaborate with systems, mechanical, and software engineers to deliver integrated solutions that meet performance, quality, reliability, and manufacturability goals.
• Contribute to technical proposals and program planning while identifying risks, developing technical approaches, estimating schedules and budgets, and presenting engineering results and recommendations to technical and leadership teams.

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 4+ years of experience with lab equipment, including oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, receivers, signal generators, amplifiers, antennas, and power meters.
• 4+ years of experience designing RF products from UHF through E-band, including frequency synthesizers, up/down converters, front-end electronics, antenna tracking electronics, and complete RF systems.
• 4+ years of experience with Cadence AWR/Microwave Office, PathWave RF Synthesis (Genesys), and Siemens EDA (Mentor Graphics) or similar tools.

What Sets You Apart:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering.
• Master's Degree.
• ADS and AWR Microwave office are critical tools to be knowledgeable in.
• Strong foundation in electromagnetics, RF/microwave theory, and electronic warfare.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team in the development of RF systems and assemblies.
• Understanding of passive and active RF components, including amplifiers, oscillators, attenuators, mixers, and filters, and their impact on system performance.
• Working knowledge of S-parameters, matching networks, cascade analysis, gain budgets, noise figure, linearity, filtering, and related RF metrics.
• Understanding of noise figure, noise temperature, Eb/No, BER, receiver sensitivity, temperature effects, impedance interfaces, and isolation requirements.
• Exposure to RF architectures, link budgets, and system-level analysis.
• Knowledge of nonlinear RF effects, including intermodulation, IP2, IP3, group delay variation, dynamic range, and mitigation techniques.
• Understanding of power budgets and environmental design impacts.
• Awareness of industry trends and emerging technologies, with the ability to support technology roadmaps that improve capability while reducing cost, size, weight, and power.
• Familiarity with military and commercial SATCOM standards.
• Teamwork.
• Strong communication skills including presentations and customer communication.
• Good reprioritization skills.
• Ability to work independently.

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the necessary employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
• Under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), all employees assigned to this client must provide documentation verifying their status as a 'U.S. Person', as defined in ITAR clause 120.15. A U.S. Person is a protected individual under the anti-discrimination provisions of U.S. immigration laws.
• Requires an active Secret Clearance.