Senior RF Development Engineer

2 months ago


Morrisville, United States Sensus Full time

Xylem (XYL) is a leading global water technology company committed to developing innovative technology solutions to the world’s water challenges. The Company’s products and services move, treat, analyze, monitor and return water to the environment in public utility, industrial, residential and commercial building services settings. Xylem also provides a leading portfolio of smart metering, network technologies and advanced infrastructure analytics solutions for water, electric and gas utilities. The Company’s more than 16,500 employees bring broad applications expertise with a strong focus on identifying comprehensive, sustainable solutions. Headquartered in Rye Brook, New York with 2017 revenue of $4.7 billion, Xylem does business in more than 150 countries through a number of market-leading product brands.

The name Xylem is derived from classical Greek and is the tissue that transports water in plants, highlighting the engineering efficiency of our water-centric business by linking it with the best water transportation of all – that which occurs in nature. For more information, please visit us at www.xylem.com.

Sensus, a Xylem brand, helps a wide range of public service providers – from utilities to cities to industrial complexes and campuses – do more with their infrastructure to improve quality of life in their communities. We enable our customers to reach farther through the application of technology and data-driven insights that deliver efficiency and responsiveness. We partner with them to anticipate and respond to evolving business needs with innovation in sensing and communications technologies, data analytics and services. Learn more at sensus.com and follow @SensusGlobal on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

The Role: Sensus, a Xylem brand, seeks to hire a Senior RF Development Engineer to assist in the development and ongoing engineering support of the Sensus portfolio of Infrastructure and Smart City products.  As part of the overall Sensus offering, Infrastructure and Smart City products serve as an intermediate communications interface with utility endpoints and utility providers.  The Senior RF Development Engineer will work with other engineering disciplines in the development and ongoing technical support of the Sensus portfolio and will entail full life-cycle responsibilities from conceptual design of new product introduction to resolving any technical issue with legacy products.  Product design ownership, collaborative attitude, and enthusiasm for delivering on-time within budget and quality requirements are crucial for success in this position.

This individual will be part of a focused development team involved with the following: 

  • Development of micro-controller or DSP based embedded systems and high volume products for the next generation of Automatic Meter Infrastructure (AMI) products.
  • Development of the building blocks for new core features and functionality for future products.
  • Participation in the selection of suitable RF and antenna components, microprocessors, analog circuits and development tools.

  Job Responsibilities:

  • Lead all RF and antenna design activities within the multi-functional development team in the development of new products from conceptualization through production launch. Ensure all aspects of the RF and antenna design meet performance, schedule, quality and cost requirements.
  • Able to design and verify non-RF electrical components such as microprocessors, discrete and integrated power supplies, sensors and other various categories of electronic components.
  • Conduct design reviews and work within cross-functional teams including electrical, mechanical, software, firmware, manufacturing, marketing and supply chain.
  • Ensure the product design meets desired performance, regulatory and reliability requirements.
  • Generate documentation such as system specifications, product requirements and manufacturing test specifications to effectively communicate with internal and external customers.
  • Work with domestic and international manufacturing teams to implement DFA/DFM principles during development of new products and ongoing support for existing products.
  • Develop, conduct and/or manage component and system level test plans to support new product development.
  • Assist system engineers and marketing program managers in making recommendations for solutions to specific endpoint and infrastructure applications.

Minimum Qualifications: Education, Experience, Skills, Abilities, License/Certification:

  • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (Required)
  • Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (Desired)
  • At least 8 + years of experience with product design focused on RF and antenna development. 
  • Expert experience with RF and antenna testing tools such as spectrum and network analyzers, oscilloscopes, multi-meters and anechoic chambers.
  • Experience with schematic capture and circuit board layout tools such as Altium.
  • Experience with RF and antenna simulation tools such as ADS/EMPro.
  • Product testing and root cause analysis skills. Familiarity with regulatory agency requirements such as FCC and ETSI.
  • Ability and desire to work in a fast-paced team environment where you will interface regularly with mechanical, back-end software, firmware and system test engineers on system-level design development. 
  • Desire and ability to learn new tools, processes and design techniques.
  • Ability to evaluate and make recommendations on cost control, reliability and manufacturability issues and maintains aggressive development schedules.  
  • Excellent communications skills with the ability to convey technical concepts in business terms.

Additional Information: 

Physical Demands

(The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

  • Light lifting (20-25 lbs.), office environment

  • Regularly required to sit or stand, reach, bend and move about the facility

Work Environment

(The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

  • Office: Standard office equipment; work usually performed in an office setting free from any disagreeable elements.
    • Standard weekly job hours: 40 hours

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