Intellian Technologies, Advanced Development Center in North Bethesda, MD is looking for a Senior RF Test Engineer with 8 years+ years of expertise in the design and development of RF/microwave transceivers. The candidate will be part of a multidisciplinary team focused on developing new high performance radio transceiver systems from antenna to modem interfaces.
As a Senior RF Test Engineer, you will participate in the development, and testing/qualification of novel RF/microwave radio transceiver for SatCom user terminals. An ideal candidate should have thorough understanding about RF/microwave radio transceiver(Ku and Ka Band) engineering with hands on skills to work with Radio related Equipment. Candidate will participate in prototype design, bring-up, test/qualification, including draft test plans/procedures, setup testing facilities, compile test reports. Candidate should have a good understanding of Python and working with RF equipment and RF test procedures to develop new tests codes for testing and validation of Radios and Prototypes in the lab.
Main Responsibilities
Design, simulate/model RF front-end systems, working with system architects, modem/DSP and ASIC engineers to partition functions between hardware and software domains
Derive RF HW specifications for the RF system and RF blocks
Design and Test RF/microwave circuits, board and production packages
Suggest and Validate new Components for the design and Evaluate and characterize prototypes
Characterize and Analyze radio performances
Assist in the development of automated test equipment for lab measurements using Python
Work with manufacturing engineers on production testing of RF components and systems
Required Qualification
Master's degree in an engineering discipline with emphasis in RF/microwave circuits or electromagnetic theory
8 years+ of experience with testing and characterization of different microwave Circuits such as high power amplifiers and PLLs
10 years of experience with design of linear and non-linear circuits such as power amplifiers, low noise amplifiers, mixers, filters and PLLs
5 years of RF/microwave design using ADS, Altium, HFSS or similar design software package
Thorough understanding of RF/Microwave passive components, such as PLL, LC VCO, ring-oscillator VCO, Crystal oscillator, LNA, Amplifier, regulator, voltage reference
Hands on experience with radio related test equipment such as spectrum analyzers, vector signal analyzers, vector signal generator, network analyzers
Hands on experience characterizing radio performance at microwave frequencies
Knowledge of digital communication systems, spread spectrum, single and multi-carrier techniques and modulation types such as QPSK, APSK and QAM
Preferred Skills & Experience
Experience in Python or Matlab or equivalent tools for modeling and analyzing RF systems
Python and/or LabVIEW programming experience for test automation
Digital communication theory with emphasis on bit error rate and system noise figure
RF/microwave design in the Ku & Ka frequency range
Experience with schedule tracking tools such as MS Project, SharePoint, Confluence, and Jira.
Familiar with satellite communication theory
Familiar with phased array technologies and implementations