Senior RF 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
Electromagnetic and Cyber Group (EM&C) is responsible for developing flexible and survivable advanced electronic warfare and secure communications equipment while providing the industry’s leading signals intelligence, electronic warfare, and cyber experts. Metrea specializes in signal classification, direction finding, advanced geolocation techniques, and waveform development including waveforms for MANET and LPI/LPD applications. Metrea also develops special purpose radios for government customers and licenses DF and geolocation solutions to multiple OEMs.
Position Summary
As a Senior RF Engineer, you will drive the design, development, testing, and debugging of advanced RF systems. This role requires a proven leader with deep technical expertise in RF engineering and a track record of guiding projects from initial prototype through full-rate production. The ideal candidate will work both independently and as a team leader, demonstrating hands-on proficiency while mentoring junior engineers and setting a high standard for design and development practices.
What You'll Do
- Design and develop low SWaP (Size, Weight, and Power) transceivers, receivers, and power amplifiers for military communication and RF sensing systems
- Collaborate with a team of fellow RF and Digital engineers to resolve RF system challenges
- Work with cross-functional teams in the development of new products, taking them from prototype to full-rate production
- Drive process improvements, enhancing design efficiency, product quality, and manufacturability
- Participate in and lead design reviews, ensuring adherence to best engineering practices
- Mentor junior engineers, fostering technical growth and knowledge sharing
What You Bring
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering, RF Engineering, or a related field
- 7+ years’ experience in RF hardware development.
- Strong grasp of RF including receivers, power amplifiers and antenna design concepts
- Ability to perform cascade analysis of RF transceiver systems.
- Experience with RF circuit design software such as ADS/MWO and schematic capture tools such as OrCAD or DxDesigner
- Strong proficiency in RF simulation and modeling tools (e.g., HFSS, ADS, CST, MATLAB)
- Ability to design general analog circuitry, power supplies and RF/Digital interfaces.
- Proficient at RF and high-speed PCB layout including material selection, EM simulation and shielding.
- Knowledge of modern communication systems concepts (RF, IF/IQ, time/frequency domains, modulation).
- Strong understanding of product development life cycles, from concept to full-rate production
Benefit
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