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Senior Principal RF Design Engineer - Onsite Huntsville, AL

RTX
Huntsville, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 17 Feb 2025
💰 $250,000/yr($124,000/yr$250,000/yr)

About the role

Date Posted:

2025-02-12

Country:

United States of America

Location:

AL218: 315 Bob Heath Drive,Huntsville 315 Bob Heath Drive , Huntsville, AL, 35806 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling – to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world.

Job Summary

Effector Sub-system Products RF is responsible for designing RF and Microwave hardware, including transmitters, receivers, and exciters.  This includes design and test activities that span preliminary design to integration.  Products we develop support radar and datalink applications on a variety of tactical missile programs.  Critical to this role is designing for challenging mechanical constraints and extreme environments.

This position is an onsite role, located in Huntsville, AL.

What You Will Do

  • Design and development of transmitters, receivers or exciters
  • Design of circuit card assemblies (CCAs) with RF or mixed signals
  • Work in a lab to accomplish component characterization as well as module verification and integration
  • Test and handle sensitive RF Hardware
  • Schematic capture and RF routing
  • Partner with interdisciplinary teams - power, digital, mechanical, etc.

Qualifications You Must Have

  • Requires a Bachelor’s in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of ten (10) years of prior relevant experience to include any combination of the following:
    • RF design and fabrication
    • RF test and troubleshoot
    • Simulation of RF products
  • Experience with any of the following tools:
    • Mentor DX Designer or equivalent
    • High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS) or equivalent
    • SystemVue/Genesys or equivalent
    • Advanced Design System (ADS) or equivalent
  • Experience providing mentorship/apprenticeship technical oversight to less-senior engineers
  • The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Qualifications We Value

  • Architecting and requirements definition for complex RF products across domains on complex projects
  • Team Lead experience on technical projects including experience with cost, schedule and ability to prepare documentation with minimal oversight
  • Background in designing for manufacturability, producibility, and cost constraints.  Includes yield and margin analysis
  • EVMS or CAM experience
  • Technical background in the following areas:
    • Cascade analysis and/or frequency planning
    • Filter design and fabrication
    • Circuit card assembly design and fabrication
    • Testing or designing RF hybrid (chip and wire) technologies
    • High speed data converter test/characterization
    • High power RF design or test experience
    • Scripting experience (Matlab or Python)

What We Offer

Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.

This position is eligible for relocation.

Learn More & Apply Now!

Please consider the following role type definition as you apply for this role:

Onsite:  Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.

Clearance Information: This position requires the eligibility to obtain a security clearance. The Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office (DISCO), an agency of the Department of Defense, handles and adjudicates the security clearance process. More information about Security Clearances can be found on the US Department of State government website here: https://www.state.gov/m/ds/clearances/c10978.htm

Huntsville, Alabama, earned the nickname "ROCKET CITY" for its close association with U.S. space research since 1950. RTX has been here since the early years, having launched its Huntsville operations as the Raytheon Company in 1948. Some of the brightest minds in aerospace and defense call it home. Can y

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