Lead RF Electrical Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

About Acron Aviation:

Acron Aviation is an agile commercial aviation partner with a long heritage of providing established, industry-certified solutions, as well as future-focused, data-driven innovations. With customers across the globe our employees are committed to the company mission of innovating to create safer skies. For more information visit acronaviation.com

About this opportunity:

Acron Aviation is seeking a self-motivated Lead RF/Microwave electrical engineer to join our RF Design team as a leader to deliver mission critical RF systems solutions for various customers. Office locations for this role are Phoenix, Arizona, Grand Rapids, MI, or St. Petersburg, FL for full-time, in-person work.The Lead RF Electrical Engineer is the engineering focal and owner for all technical aspects of the RF/microwave electrical design within the Surveillance product line (including ACAS/TCAS, transponder, DME, UAT, and other RF functions). He/She provides daily leadership for technical activities to engineering team members also supporting the Surveillance product line. The engineer creates RF designs for new products and helps resolve current production and customer issues.

Essential Functions:

• Good verbal, written communication, and excellent analytical skills are essential for this position.
• Ability to work independently, as well as direct and coordinate work of multi-disciplinary engineering teams to assure the successful development of RF systems and assemblies.
• Derive RF hardware requirements from system level specifications.
• Support development of surveillance and communication system architectures.
• Perform RF/analog circuit design and hardware engineering from the component level up to entire communication systems.
• Responsible for the RF and High frequency/microwave detailed design, analysis, development and testing of hardware.
• Participate in the proposal process for programs with RF requirements by estimating tasks, identifying risk and planning development.
• Conduct and participate in internal and external system design reviews.
• Present concepts, designs, actionable information, and results to program management and Acron Aviation customers.
• Lead or work in conjunction with mechanical, systems and software engineering to meet challenging performance requirements.
• Support internal peer design reviews, design verification testing of engineering units and oversight of design through production.
• Develop methods for modifying systems to include new RF and wireless capabilities.
• Document current RF development and sustaining process and create a plan for continuous improvement

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience.
• Candidate must have an academia background in electro-magnetic (EM) and RF/microwave theory.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience designing RF CCAs operating at frequencies ranging from UHF through E-band, but with focus in L-band. Design activities will include frequency synthesizers, Up/down converters, front-end electronics and other RF electronics.
• Experience with simulation and/or 3D modeling tools such as CST Microwave Studio, Ansoft HFSS, AWR Microwave Office or ADS.
• Understanding of critical performance characteristics of passive and active RF components such as Amplifiers, Oscillators, Attenuators, Mixers and Filters. An understanding of how these characteristics relate to a system's performance is a plus.
• Working understanding and knowledge of S-parameters (matching networks, cascade analysis, …), Gain budget analysis (Gain, NF, Linearity, Noise power, … ), and Filtering (types, bandwidth, implementations, … ).
• A strong understanding of noise figure/noise temperature (Eb/No, BER vs. noise, receiver sensitivity, and expected value and variance), temperature effects, interconnection (standard and non-standard impedances), and isolation requirements.
• Experience with DO-160 qualification of RF electronics.

Acron Aviation is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Acron Aviation is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws.

Acron Aviation maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.

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