Job Description | Senior RF Engineer

Location

Ottawa, ON | Canada

Job description

We’re looking for people who want to revolutionize RF monitoring and intelligence.
We’re an ambitious, diverse, closely knit team of RF experts who are driven to redefine how 5G wireless spectrum is monitored and managed.  If you’re team focused, willing to work hard to change the game, and are compelled to innovate, we’ll put you in a position to make a difference.

Our Call to Action

More and more, wireless spectrum is fundamental to our society. How do we best ensure this critical resource is always available and properly managed? The current approaches are cumbersome, expensive, and ineffective. We see the world differently. We are developing cutting edge solutions and deploying them with world class partners to deliver disruptive solutions that keep our world humming.  We aren’t interested in “more of the same”, we are all about better. We love challenges and delivering over and above what our customers expect.

The Opportunity

thinkRF has opportunities for Senior RF Engineers who can provide technical leadership and innovation to support the next stage in our company’s growth. In this role, you would be responsible for the design, simulation, development, and testing of RF circuits and systems for application in wideband radio receivers spanning from DC all the way up to mmWave.
The position is based in Ottawa, and under current COVID-19 conditions has flexibility to work from home however, there will be times when it is required to work from our office in Kanata.

Responsibilities

You will hold the primary engineering responsibility for electrical design tasks including requirements analysis, specification generation, interface definition, component selection, circuit simulation, symbol creation, schematic capture, and board layout. As the Senior RF Engineer, you will own schedules, cost, and have technical responsibility at the board or subsystem level.

In this role, you will:

• Design advanced RF Products from VLF to mm-wave, addressing DFM and DFT considerations during the design process
• Develop test plans, then test and debug RF circuits and systems
• Produce, review and maintain all associated design and test documentation
• Estimate RF hardware design tasks, identifying risks, and planning development
• Conduct design reviews
• Work with the operations team to introduce new designs into production
• Work on sustaining issues related to designs

Qualifications

Building on your engineering experience, some of the key qualifications for this role include:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Masters degree preferred with RF circuit engineering
• 7 – 10 years of broadly based design, modeling and test experience with RF/microwave circuits and systems
• In depth knowledge of RF circuit design including receiver architectures
• Proficiency in the use of software design and simulation tools (such as Mentor Graphics, Cadence (NI-AWR), Modelithics), SPICE, Microwave Office and Keysight ADS
• Experience implementing frequency synthesizers using PLLs
• The ability to guide and participate in the layout of RF/mm Wave circuits
• Strong RF circuit testing and debugging skills
• Experience developing test fixtures for a variety of circuits and devices
• General familiarity with embedded software development and integration
• Proficiency in the use of RF/electronic test equipment (such as vector network analyzer, spectrum analyzer, oscilloscope, or logic analyzer)

Assets

• Good working knowledge of receiver planning for gain, NF, linearity and spurious minimization
• Experience implementing active circuits at frequencies of > 20GHz
• Strong filter design and implementation skills using lumped and distributed techniques
• Work experience with wireless communication systems
• Working understanding of embedded processor control of RF elements
• Signal integrity at the PCB level

Personal Attributes

• Self-starter, capable of taking initiative to identify and resolve problems, and improve work environment
• Outstanding work ethic and commitment to organizational success
• Team player who is able to build consensus and work cooperatively
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to successfully deliver on committed project deadlines

To join the thinkRF team:

Email your cover letter and resume in confidence to [email protected], specifying the title of the position you are applying for in the subject line of your message. Please be sure to provide some insight into your initiative, skills and achievements, and how you plan to contribute toward the growth of our company.
thinkRF is an equal opportunity employer and we encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, origins, ages, orientations, genders, creeds and religions. thinkRF accommodates people with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process, and beyond. If contacted regarding your application to this position, please advise us of any accommodations you may require.

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