RF Engineers

RF Engineers - Defence - Edinburgh - 6 months+ £300 - £350 per day outside IR35

A leading Defence organisation are looking for 2x RF Test Engineers to lead a series of applied research work-packages and feasibility studies, document and report on their findings, and provide RF architectural recommendations to support the creation of a digital antenna concept for our next generation surveillance radar system

1x Focussed on Antenna development
1x Focussed on Receiver development

Requirements:

RF/microwave experience (full lifecycle) in the Principal (or high Senior) level
AR experience / expertise (technical study investigation)
concept development (defining architectures / partitioning in their domain)
Lab prototyping to support rapid development
Hardware requirement specification definition
Schematic capture
Layout support to ECAD (including prototyping layouts)
Documentation to support formal design
Design verification testing
Specific radar development experience
Antenna development (engineer #1)
Receiver development (engineer #2)
Technical supervision of junior engineer
The system the client is developing will be broadly split into a Receiver Function / SRU and an Antenna Function / SRU

Each of the two Principal engineers will be Function / SRU lead for one of these functions, and (longer term) will need to provide technical supervision to the junior engineers working on secondary assembli...