Microwave Engineer Job Description
Microwave engineer
provides electromagnetics knowledge to interdisciplinary teams, consult on experimental design, analyze, and recommend suggestions for EMP hardening, using industry-standard modeling tools such as Ansys HFSS and FEKO, and run and modify in-house simulation tools on world-leading LINUX supercomputers.
Microwave Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Draw upon a broad background in architecting radio frequency, digital, and signal processing electronics in order to flow down system requirements to the electronics module and component level
Develop architectures to meet these requirements, lead the development of these modules, provide technical management of subcontracts
Perform analysis of candidate designs to determine the impact to subsystem and system performance
Derivation of device requirements
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Creating new sales opportunity by proposing what customer doesn't know
Identifying newly necessary solutions by investigating customer's needs
Developing identified solution with Factory side or by ourselves
Delivering solutions with customer satisfaction
Board and system level RF/Microwave and high speed digital circuit design and evaluation
Microwave Engineer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Microwave Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CFR, FAA, ISTQB, CCNP
Education for Microwave Engineer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the microwave engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Science, Physics, Technology, Computer Science, Math, Mathematics, Technical, Design
Skills for Microwave Engineer
Desired skills for microwave engineer include:
APSK and QAM
Digital communication systems
Spread spectrum
System design
Cost estimating
Antennas
HFSS
Phased arrays
Processes for intellectual property management
Transmission line theory
Desired experience for microwave engineer includes:
Presentation and communication skills, able to advise in a convincing way, verbally on paper
Previous experience with modeling and analysis of electronics systems, subsystems and circuits is required
Previous experience programming FPGAs for radio and radar applications is required
Previous experience with Matlab, Simulink, Mathcad, and PSpice software is desired
Must be able to prepare and conduct detailed technical presentations and reviews
Must be customer focused, formulates plans based on the development of innovative new designs in resolving advanced technical engineering problems
Microwave Engineer Examples
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Microwave Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of microwave engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for microwave engineer
- Develop customized analog circuits, evaluate various options, create functional and load models, and document results for sharing with customers
- Design and implement unit characterization tests, production tests and integration tests
- Team work, effective communication, and customer support if needed
- Specification, design capture, circuit simulation and verification of electro-optical modules running at effective bit rates of 100 Gb/s to 400Gb/s
- Experimental characterization and verification of prototype and production ready designs
- Partnering with design engineers, manufacturing, and other process engineers to implement and validate new equipment, new process technologies, and/or capacity improvements in the cable manufacturing area
- Supporting day-to-day manufacturing of commercialized products by resolving quality and technical issues
- Validating external partners manufacturing technologies and processes
- Understanding product performance requirements and correlating them to in-process measurements and settings
- Troubleshooting process anomalies to identify root cause and develop solutions
Qualifications for microwave engineer
- Microwave, digital and/or analog circuit basics
- Lead cross functional development teams through influence across multi-site development organizations
- Basic knowledge of various packaging techniques and operating environments and the design opportunities and challenges they bring
- Basic knowledge of various Integrated Circuit processes
- 9 years of relevant product development, test, or delivery experience
- Familiar with common RF lab test equipment
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Microwave Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a microwave engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for microwave engineer
- Identifying equipment and technology needs, and supporting implementation strategies, in support of electronic component manufacturing
- Driving design for manufacturability in development of new products
- Measuring and communicating product stability and capability to operations and business partners
- Evaluating proposed improvements to processes and products based on analyses of regulatory requirements, product quality needs, ergonomics, safety, environmental considerations, and cost
- Understanding interdependencies across the supply chain by partnering with other engineers and operations associates
- Documenting work via procedures, reports, technology notebooks, the quality system, and design file entries
- Development work in support of advanced state-of-the-art RF and Microwave circuit design for communications and electronic warfare systems
- Design, test, and evaluate RF, analog, and digital hardware and test equipment
- Simulate novel passive microwave structures and ultra-high quality resonators, optimizing for reduced parasitic resonances
- Design and model low noise amplifiers and matching networks
Qualifications for microwave engineer
- Have strong interpersonal skills (able to work in a highly dynamic team environment)
- Ability to communicate information using standard Microsoft applications including Excel, Word, Office, Power Point, Project and Visio
- Minor in Computer Science or equivalent
- Knowledge of fundamental concepts related to RF/Microwave
- Good to have custom solution design experience
- Good to have work experience in the Automotive, Wireless communication, Aerospace/Defense or electronic device industry
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Microwave Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a microwave engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for microwave engineer
- Design and simulate microwave launch structures
- With limited direction, initiate and develop highly innovative radio frequency and signal processing solutions to advanced technical Engineering problems
- Provide expert guidance and consulting to other staff members
- Provide technical management of subcontracts when required
- Represent the Company as the prime technical contact to customers and suppliers
- Perform integration, testing, and troubleshooting of electronic subsystems
- Developing module, board and slice level requirements derived from unit requirements
- Developing and maintaining performance budgets and analyses that flow into worst case unit analysis
- Be a member of the Applied Electromagnetics Group and will report to the Group Supervisor
- Design, fabricate and test solid-state power amplifiers, optical systems, cryogenic systems, microwave hardware systems and associated components for both ground and flight applications
Qualifications for microwave engineer
- BS in Electrical Engineering or Applied Physics or other related Engineering discipline
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering with a minimum of 9 years or experience or a Masters Degree with 7 years of experience
- Hands-on experience in the design of automated test systems, and the involved Hardware/Software
- Knowledge of electronic hardware troubleshooting, object-oriented programming preferably in C#, MATLAB or LabWindows and RF devices and test methods
- English and Japanese fluency
- Experienced in the use of different RF Planning tools and especially Asset
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Microwave Engineer Job Description
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Our company is looking to fill the role of microwave engineer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for microwave engineer
- Perform antenna measurements in an antenna range
- Perform new high sensitivity low-noise amplifier design for applications including the Deep Space Network and quantum computing
- Perform research and development activities on various new microwave, optical and electric propulsion concepts being pursued at the Applied Electromagnetics Group
- Analyze and provide reports for new transmitter hardware implementations including evaluation of RF components and subsystems
- Take new designs from inception to final build documentation
- Packaging insights and tradeoff support for mechanical design
- Generation of BOM, Wire List, Acceptance Test Procedure
- First Article integration and test support
- General support of build related issues
- Development of module, board and slice-level requirements derived from higher-level unit requirements
Qualifications for microwave engineer
- MUST have an ACTIVE DoD SECRET Security Clearance is required
- Working level MapInfo skills
- BS or MS Degree in EE
- Understanding of RF and microwave hardware, with desired experience in Optical measurements
- Desirable experience developing SW in C/C++/C# and ability to build, test, and debug software
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills possess excellent analytical skills
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Microwave Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a microwave engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for microwave engineer
- Requirements and interface definition, design for test, hands-on testing, performance and design verification
- Support state-of-the-art communications subsystems for both commercial and national security programs, from design and development though unit-level integration and test
- Interact directly with customers, suppliers, program management, integration and test engineers, and senior technologists
- Perform advanced design, implementation and testing of solid-state power amplifiers
- Excellent knowledge of RF/Microwave design methodologies and simulation, including latest bus technologies such as PCIe, USB, SAS/SATA and/or Ethernet
- Minimum of 5 years of system/board level experience designing and developing high end, high speed embedded platforms including latest bus topologies
Qualifications for microwave engineer
- Proficient at testing and troubleshooting RF, analog, digital circuits
- BS or MS Degree in EE with SW forte, or equivalent experience
- Proficient with electronic test equipment and testing of circuits
- Bachelors in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science required
- Masters in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science (preferred but not required)
- Excellent knowledge of RF/Microwave design techniques, implementation, and measurements including S-parameter measurements and analysis