Production RF Test Engineer
MetreaAbout the role
Company Overview
Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.
Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.
At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.
Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Group Overview
The Electromagnetic and Cyber Group (EM&C) develops and builds systems for communications and RF sensing. Within EM&C, RADLAB is our radar capability area. RADLAB is a small team building novel capabilities from the ground up, taking ideas from physics and math through simulation, prototype, and test.
Position Summary
In this role you will support the manufacturing team by testing, troubleshooting, and validating RF communication products and electronic assemblies to ensure they meet performance and quality requirements. This role is responsible for operating test equipment, executing production test procedures, identifying and resolving technical issues, documenting results, and working closely with engineering, quality, and production teams. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with RF systems, electronics diagnostics, and a strong attention to detail.
What You'll Do
- Must be able to read, interpret and follow assembly prints, schematics and work instructions
- Perform functional, RF, and environmental testing of circuit boards and top-level assemblies
- Maintain accurate and clear documentation that proves that testing has been carried out in accordance with internal quality systems or regulations. It is important that procedures are followed, equally important is proving these operations were carried out and documented
- Troubleshoot and diagnose failures at the component, board, and system level
- Utilize RF test equipment such as spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, signal generators, oscilloscopes, and power meters
- Aid in developing product test instructions and standard operating procedures
- Document test results, failures, and corrective actions in accordance with quality procedures
- Maintain test equipment calibration status
- Train other Metrea employees on testing, reading and interpreting schematics, and troubleshooting RF circuits
- Conduct product tests and quality checks to ensure the highest product quality is upheld
- Ensure compliance with ESD, safety, and handling procedures
What You Bring
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in RF assembly testing and trouble shooting
- Familiarity with RF principles (frequency, modulation, signal behavior).
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience with automated test systems (ATE)
- Systematic approach in problem solving and troubleshooting
Additional Eligibility Qualifications
IPC-610 and J-Standard certifications desired
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical plan options
- HSA/FSA accounts
- Dental and vision coverage
- 6% employer 401(k) match
- Fully paid parental leave for all new parents
- Generous PTO
- Life and disability insurance
- Long-term and Short-term disability coverage
- AD&D Coverage
- Pet Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Subsided gym membership / plans through Wellhub
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