Principal RF Engineer

​We are looking for an RF Engineer at Senior or Principal Level to join Leonardo in Edinburgh. Leonardo are a world-class defence Technology Company. We develop cutting edge Radars for the Eurofighter Typhoon and SAAB Gripen fighter jets, as well as Maritime and Airborne surveillance systems. We are also investors in innovation, undertaking all our own research to fuel our future products. We are recruiting talented, motivated engineers to join our growing Electronics team.

What you’ll do as a Principal RF Engineer:

This is an exciting opportunity for you as an engineer to bring your skillset and knowledge into our working environment. You will be involved in developing a range of multifunctional RF, PCB and Module designs using the latest technologies available and enhancing your understanding of key design and manufacture processes.

As an RF/Microwave engineer, you will be responsible for;

• Full hardware lifecycle for our products: from system concept, through detailed design and prototyping, test and verification, system integration and support in production.
• Creating high quality and robust designs, conducting design reviews for your design, fully documenting and recording your work products, keeping them under configuration management and providing plans and progress reports.
• Developing a range of multifunctional RF PCB and Module designs using the latest technologies available and enhancing your understanding of key design and manufacture processes.
• Designing to test, creating test prototypes for design validation, verification of development models and support for production test.
• Carrying out all detail design activities from requirements capture to design verification.
• Ensuring design reviews are completed successfully.
• Preparing robust manufacturing data packs and provide technical support to sub-contracts and engineering interface with manufacturing.
• Working closely with Systems, Test and Electronics engineers you will be solving real integration problems on advanced systems

What we need from you:

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You will ideally have experience in the following areas;

• Microwave PCB materials & design techniques.
• RF Microwave Sub-System Design.
• Microwave design tools – e.g. AWR, VSS, ADS, Systemvue, Matlab.
• EM 3D and 2D simulation techniques – e.g. CST.
• GaAs/GaN MMIC design and application
• RF Synthesiser design, using DDS and PLL technologies
• RF downconverter and digitiser design
• Design of passive microwave structures.
• Low phase noise design and measurement
• Non-linear circuit simulation.
• PCB schematic capture tools – e.g. Mentor.
• Lab measurements such as signal generation, spectrum analysis and vector network analysis
• Microwave component selection.
• Requirements capture and management.
• Technical report writing
• Design reviews and lifecycle management
• Design for manufacture and cost. 
  
  This role requires you to have:
  
   Achieved a first or second degree (BSc, BEng, MEng, MSc, PhD, EngD) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (preferable) or related science (e.g. Physics).
   
  Personal attributes and values are just as important to us as technical ability so we are looking for engineers with a willingness to learn, progress and develop through our devoted technical career path. If you are passionate in what you do and can deliver a pragmatic approach to problem solving we would like to hear from you.