RF Electrical Engineer (systems architecture and radar)
Della Infotech - cambridge, MA
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Job Title: RF Electrical Engineer (systems architecture and radar) Location: Cambridge, MA 02142 onsite Experience level: 7-10 years Skills: • 7+ years of RF experience in radar hardware development, including defining requirements, schematic design, layout, and overseeing the manufacturing of PCBAs. • Experience with radar design - i.e. translating FCC requirements into design specifications, link budget analysis, impact of antenna geometry on gain pattern. • Experience with schematic design and layout - i.e. component selection, placement, feedline routing, impact of via/trace geometries on insertion loss. • Manufacturing - Interface with PCB fab and assembly shops; Define the stackup; Anticipate and identify design issues that would impact manufacturing reliability. • Comfortable bringing-up and testing radar boards using oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, horns, and probes. • Comfortable using Altium, our PCB CAD tool. • Comfortable guiding other engineers to run Ansys HFSS, interpreting the results, and providing advice on how to adjust geometries to improve performance. • Digital circuit design and layout, with a skill to layout and isolate high-frequency (up to 30 Ghz) traces. • Experience with Xilinx and Intel Altera FPGAs • Able to independently collect and analyze data to innovate and improve the performance of radar-based hardware and associated analogue and digital circuitry • Able to work collaboratively with RF engineers on analog electrical engineering tasks and challenges. • Able to work collaboratively with a range of external third parties and vendors. Additional Qualifications: • High attention to detail with strong written and verbal communication skills and technical documentation • Creative thinking and problem solving • Strong communication and teamwork skills • The following skills are also highly desirable: • working knowledge of radar products, commercial acumen, • experience with novel product design, • Master's degree preferred or with equivalent work experience Responsibilities: • Understand the commercialization objectives and how they influence hardware choices. • To lead and manage the component and module selection effort. • Design and layout those components with complex multi-layer PCBs mixing high frequency analog and digital components. • Manage PCB fabrication and assembly. • Communicate the radar's theory of operation with our machine learning team. • Collaboratively work with and coordinate RF engineers in the design of the Analog circuits and antennas. Education: Bachelors or Masters in IT or Computer Science.
Created: 2024-09-15