RF Engineer
Posted 1 day ago by Certain Advantage
£75 Per hour
Inside
Hybrid
Stevenage, UK
Summary: World Class Defence Organisation in Stevenage, Hertfordshire is seeking an RF Engineer subcontractor for an initial 6-month contract. The role involves working in a Hardware-in-the-Loop team, focusing on designing and maintaining RF equipment. Candidates should possess a growth mindset and be comfortable in a collaborative environment. The position offers a hybrid working pattern with a significant on-site presence.
Key Responsibilities:
- Designing, developing, and maintaining new and existing RF equipment.
- Working with multi-disciplinary teams to integrate RF, electronics engineering, and software development.
- Adapting to new engineering situations and abstracting details to understand simulations and missile behavior.
Key Skills:
- Broad engineering experience with deeper experience in Radio Frequency design and testing.
- System performance analysis.
- Interface debugging and system integration.
- Hardware/Software design requirements.
- System design for Real Time applications.
- Familiarity with Linux operating system.
- Familiarity with computer science (C++ an advantage).
- Integration of microcontrollers into RF hardware (e.g., Raspberry Pi).
Salary (Rate): £75 per hour
City: Stevenage
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
World Class Defence Organisation based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire is currently looking to recruit an RF Engineer subcontractor on an initial 6 month contract.
Hourly Rate: £75ph (Umbrella)
Contract Duration: 6 Months (initially and then ongoing and long-term thereafter)
RF Engineer Job Description:
Exciting opportunity for a Principal RF Engineer, in our Hardware-in-the-Loop Team
Hybrid working pattern: 80% on site, working with world class equipment.
We are looking for ambitious engineers with a growth mind-set to join our team. If you are the right person for us, you will seek a supportive environment, surrounded by passionate experts while being a part of a collaborative and driven team.
The Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) team conduct the most complete test of missiles other than a firing and are the Missile test track. We design complex, Real Time simulations that surround real missile hardware to allow us to 'fire missiles indoors'.
Responsibilities:
As a HWIL RF engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing and maintaining new and existing RF equipment and working with multi-disciplinary teams to combine RF, electronics engineering and software development to produce new capabilities that enable the HWIL team to run new simulations.
You will be able to adapt to new engineering situations and be comfortable in abstracting detail in order to understand the simulation and missile's behaviour
Skillset/experience required:
Broad engineering experience with deeper experience in some of the following skill areas:
- Radio Frequency design and testing
- System performance analysis
- Interface debugging and system integration
- Hardware/Software design requirements
- System design for Real Time applications
- Familiarity with Linux operating system
- Familiarity with computer science (C++ an advantage)
- Integration of microcontrollers into RF hardware (eg Raspberry Pi)
- Radio Frequency design and testing
- System performance analysis
- Interface debugging and system integration
- Hardware/Software design requirements
- System design for Real Time applications
Desirable:
- Familiarity with Linux operating system
- Familiarity with computer science (C++ an advantage)
- Integration of microcontrollers into RF hardware (eg Raspberry Pi)
