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RFAntenna Engineer

RF/Antenna Engineer

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Requisition ID

107330

USA-California-Simi Valley

Description

For nearly 50 years, Datron has been a trusted supplier of high performance, full motion antennas for commercial, scientific, and national security applications. At our 9-acre facility in Simi Valley, California, we have complete design, assembly and test capabilities for our large fixed antennas and satcom-on-the-move product lines. We focus on delivering efficient, customized solutions, and strive to provide customers with the highest level of service and responsiveness.

Our customer base includes the scientific and educational communities, foreign and domestic military services, governmental agencies, and the commercial market. Our experienced staff includes but is not limited to Engineering, Operations, Quality Assurance, and Program Management.

Our organization offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package for eligible employees including: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k), at least 8 paid holidays each year, 3 weeks of paid personal time off, a 9/80 workweek (26 Fridays off a year!), educational assistance and support for leadership, technical growth and development.

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The RF/Antenna Engineer designs, develops, and tests radio frequency (RF) and/or microwave systems architecture, components, circuits, or products. Includes antenna design, both reflector and array systems, frequency synthesizers, transmitters, and receivers.

* This position reports to the Microwave Engineering Manager.

* Designs RF antenna systems based on customer specifications such as G/T, bandwidth, group delay, gain flatness, up/down conversion schemes, intermodulation produdcts, P1 dB and saturation power, etc.

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Performs antenna analysis, including antenna efficiency and gain, VSWR, and radiation patterns.

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Writes component specifications and interfaces with vendors to write test procedures.

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Designs, develops, modifies, and evaluates microwave devices and systems.

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Ensures that MW product designs meet company and/or customer requirements in terms of costs, performance, and manufacturability of end products.

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Development responsibilities include the design of microwave antennas and its integration with passive components including baluns, power dividers, diplexers, impedance matching networks, hybrids, and filters.

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Effectively transfers antenna designs to manufacturing, and ensures products meet specifications and quality requirements.

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Ensures that designs are suitable for volume manufacture.

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Supports or leads the generation of specification and test documents, creates original electrical designs, and works jointly with Mechanical Engineering, CAD Designers, Machine Shop and Manufacturing to ensure efficient manufacturing of hardware.

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Conducts and supervises prototype development and testing using state-of-the-art testing facilities.

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Supports antenna systems integration and acceptance tests with customers.

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Qualifications

A Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field is required. A minimum of 3 years of related experience is required.

Must possess a working knowledge of antennas, reflectors, phased arrays, beamformers, transmission line theory, amplifiers, power amplifiers and passive RF circuit design.

Familiarity with the characteristics and design of various antenna types such as uniform or tapered slot, cavity backed aperture, broadband, wire, horn, and microstrip is required.

Experience with one or more design and analysis software tools such as HFSS, CST, TICRA GRASP and Mician is preferred.

Must have hands-on experience performing S-parameter measurements, antenna pattern measurements using either far or near field techniques, and antenna gain measurements.

Knowledge of practical RF system considerations such as path loss calculation, cascade noise figure, and intercept point is desirable.

For timely processing, please submit your application online at: javascript:void(0); Job # 107330 . To learn more about our company and technologies, visit our website at: javascript:void(0);

L3 Datron is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage minorities, women, veterans and disabled individuals to apply. Should you require a reasonable accommodation in applying for a position at L3 Datron, please call.

Equal Opportunity Employer – minorities / females / veterans / individuals with disabilities / sexual orientation / gender identity.

US Security Clearance Required
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None

Schedule

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Full-time

Shift

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Day - 1st

Travel

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Yes, 10 % of the Time

Organization

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Engineering-20001378

Job Level

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Individual Contributor

Job Posting

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Apr 23, 2019, 6:09:40 PM

Job

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Engineering-Electronics

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