Title:  Senior Specialist, Electrical Engineering

Job Title: Sr. Specialist, Electrical Engineering, RF Design Engineer

Job Code: 36199

Job Location: San Diego, CA

Job Schedule: 9/80- employees work 9 out of 14 days- totaling 80 hours worked- and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

L3Harris in San Diego, CA is seeking a senior professional with strong knowledge of RF/microwave engineering and communication theory to support the design and manufacture of Tracking, Telemetry, and Command products for airborne and space-based applications. This role involves circuit card and subsystem design, integration, and testing of RF hardware. The ideal candidate will have proficiency in RF/microwave engineering, digital modulation techniques, and communications theory.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for RF/microwave product development, including circuit card and subsystem design, schematic capture, circuit design, derating, and Worst-Case Analysis (WCA).
• Manage complex projects or processes with general oversight.
• Determine design approaches and parameters.
• Utilize modeling tools and equipment to establish operating data, conduct experimental tests, and evaluate results.
• Select components and equipment based on analysis of specifications and reliability.
• Perform simulations and present design reviews.
• Lead and perform trade studies for technical decisions.
• Conduct design verification testing to validate performance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to RF hardware and digital communication systems.
• Provide mentoring and leadership to early career engineers.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a minimum of a secret level DoD security clearance.

Qualifications:

• BS degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent with at least 6 years of prior relevant experience, or MS degree with at least 4 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Qualifications:

• Experience designing X-Band or higher RF/microwave transmitter, receiver, and/or converter circuits at the circuit card or module level.
• Knowledge of RF/microwave engineering principles and hands-on experience with RF/microwave and communications test equipment.
• Working knowledge of digital modulation techniques including BPSK, QPSK, and related distortion metrics like EVM.
• Ability to troubleshoot RF/microwave subassemblies to the component level.
• Ability to independently conduct design verification testing.
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Experience performing RF/microwave system and circuit analysis using ADS, AWR VSS, or similar.
• Experience in transmitter design: gain distribution, linearity, modulation formats, synthesizer architecture, and EVM performance.
• Experience in receiver front end design: Noise figure, dynamic range, acquisition and tracking threshold, and BER performance.
• Experience with 3D Electromagnetic analysis using HFSS or similar.
• Understanding of digital design fundamentals, including modem architectures, power supplies, interfacing with ADCs, FPGAs, and more.
• Experience with military or space-qualified hardware designs.
• Design experience with K band frequencies.

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