Senior RF Engineer


Job Details

Company Description

ClientSolv Technologies is an IT solution firm with over a decade of experience serving Fortune 1000 companies, public sector and small to medium sized companies. ClientSolv Technologies is a woman-owned and operated company that is certified as a WMBE, 8a firm by the Federal government's Small Business Administration.

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior RF Engineer for a direct hire/permanent role in Gaithersburg, MD. This role will work collaboratively onsite/in the office Monday-Friday during normal business hours (there are no remote options).

In this role, you will be involved in the design and testing of state-of-the-art RF and phased-array antenna systems for next-generation LEO/MEO/GEO satellite communication systems. You will be instrumental in designing and developing innovative solutions to serve customers in fixed, aeronautical, land-mobile, and maritime domains.

RESPONSIBILITIES :

  • Analyze system requirements and develop system architectures for RF and baseband subsystems.
  • Develop subsystem requirements, specifications, and technical evaluations
  • Conduct link budgets analyses, block and signal level analyses, and trade-off studies
  • Analyze RF performance and conduct simulations and measurements to determine signal integrity, cross-talk, coupling, noise, insertion loss, return loss.
  • Develop algorithms for calibration of antenna subsystems in fixed and mobile user terminal installations
  • Develop constellation modeling and analyses for LEO/MEO/GEO satellite systems and conduct analyses against regulatory masks.
  • Document detailed designs and present them internally and to external customers


Qualifications

REQUIREMENTS :
  • Master's degree in electrical engineering or related field
  • 10+ years expertise in communications systems theory and analysis including link budgets, signal propagation, phase noise, EVM, non-linear effects, etc.
  • 5+ years of experience with microwave circuit design in industry.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
  • PhD in electrical engineering
  • Strong analytical skills and modeling skills for RF performance in LEO/MEO/GEO systems
  • Experience with HFSS/CST, ADS, and MATLAB simulation tools
  • Familiarity with a variety of RF printed circuit technologies including stripline, microstrip, co-planar waveguide.
  • Familiarity with high density PC board interconnect methods including micro-via, blind and buried via, in RF and microwave environments.
  • Design experience with LNAs, power amplifiers, active RFIC technologies, directional couplers, frequency converters, mixers, frequency synthesizers.
  • Familiar with test equipment like vector network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, noise figure meters, power meters, vector signal analyzers.
  • Knowledgeable about electronic beam forming, beam steering and array synthesis.
  • Able to make antenna pattern measurements including gain, beam-width, sidelobe levels, co and cross polarization levels, Return loss, coupling factors


Additional Information

This direct hire/permanent role will be located in Gaithersburg, MD. This role will work collaboratively onsite/in the office Monday-Friday during normal business hours (there are no remote options).





 ClientSolv Technologies

 04/26/2024

 Gaithersburg,MD