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RF/Analog Electrical Engineer
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What they do
A Radio Frequency (RF) Engineer works with technology and electronic equipment that uses radio waves, from cell phones to radio stations. Designs, installs, and repairs systems and equipment that transmit radio signals. May specialize in design or maintenance; may focus on the design of transmission equipment, such as radio antennae, or manage larger systems such as networks of cell phone towers.
$115,522 / year median in Illinois
-10% projected decline
Job Description
RF/Analog Electrical Engineer ASD Global - 3.8 Rolling Meadows, IL Job Details Contract $85 - $100 an hour 1 day ago Benefits Relocation assistance Qualifications MATLAB Engineering development testing Requirements design Verification (System development task) Electronics functional testing Signal processing circuit design SPICE Secret Clearance Schematic development for electrical drafting Research Electronics design System design for system development Bachelor's degree System testing Design engineering Printed circuit board (PCB) layout Allegro PCB Designer Mixed-signal circuit design Radio frequency (RF) testing IBM Rational ClearCase Electrical amplifiers Electrical Engineering Prototypes Debugging Full Job Description 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 Northrop Grumman 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. This position will be full-time and on-site at our Rolling Meadows, IL. Location This position can be filled at either the Principal or Sr.
Principal level:
Basic Qualifications forPrincipal 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 Citizens hip
- Must have Interim Secret clearance prior to starting and once started, must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 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