RF Hardware Engineer Lead for Advanced Satellite Communication Links

7 days ago


San Diego, California, United States L3Harris Technologies Full time
Job Overview
L3Harris Technologies is seeking a versatile RF hardware engineer to lead the design and manufacturing of Tracking, Telemetry, and Command products for airborne and space-based applications. As an RF Product Lead, you will be responsible for developing solutions that meet customer needs based on current designs and proposed new development for advanced satellite communication links, digital telemetry, signal processing technology.

Responsibilities
• Work with Business Development, Engineering, and Management to develop systems that meet the customer's needs based on legacy systems and new designs.
• System/module requirements development.
• Responsible for all aspects of RF/microwave product development, including system and module level design and definition, schematic capture, circuit design, derating, and Worst-Case Analysis (WCA).
• Prepare and present engineering design concepts and data results for IDR/PDR/CDR.
• Support internal peer reviews, design verification testing of engineering units, and oversight of production.

Requirements
• Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering or equivalent and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience.
• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience.
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• Minimum 7 years of experience designing X-Band or higher RF/microwave transmitter, receiver, and converter circuits at the circuit card or module level (schematic capture, BOM generation, layout or layout supervision).
• Minimum 7 years of experience supporting production of RF/Microwave hardware.

Preferred Skills
• Experience performing RF system analysis using ADS System Vue, AWR VSS, or similar.
• Ability to perform linear and non-linear analysis of RF/microwave circuits using Keysight ADS or similar.
• Familiarity with transmitter and receiver architecture design: transmitter design: gain distribution, linearity, modulation formats synthesizer architecture, and EVM performance.
• Receiver front end design: Noise figure, dynamic range, acquisition and tracking threshold, and BER performance.
• Experience with military or space qualified hardware designs.
• Design experience with K band frequencies desired but not required.

Compensation and Benefits
The salary range for this role is $122,500.00 - $227,500.00. This includes health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays.

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