Sr RF Engineer
Sr RF Engineer
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15-03-2025
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15-03-2025
Job Description
Universal Electronics is seeking a Sr RF Engineer to lead the design and optimization of advanced RF solutions for IoT and smart home products. This role focuses on developing and testing RF Hardware and systems and ensuring RF performance and compliance with standards like Zigbee BLE WiFi Thread FCC and CE. Responsible for RF Circuit design; antenna EM simulation optimization and tuning; PCB signal integrity analysis and leading handson RF testing at our Santa Ana Engineering Center. Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to deliver innovative highperformance RF solutions that drive the future of connected devices.
Qualifications
- Work with lead Electrical Engineers to design and specify RF circuits in new products including PCB transmission lines SMD RF component values and their placement PCB antenna types dimensions and placement options.
- Use Schematic Capture and Layout design tools.
- Use HFSS or an equivalent EM simulation tool to drive and optimize PCB antenna dimensions and placement to achieve the desired radiation pattern and efficiency.
- Use a VNA and S Parameters to measure and optimize hardware prototype impedance matching.
- Use RF analyzers power meters and signal generators to make and optimize standard conducted RF receiver and transmitter measurements to validate RadiotoAntenna RF circuit performance.
- Define new product RF validation and manufacturing tests and acceptance criteria.
- Troubleshoot RF and EMC problems.
- Write and present RF test reports sharing insights to drive new designs.
- Serve as the RF subject matter lead at our Santa Ana Engineering center.
- Ability to integrate proven radio ICs modules and PCB antennas into highvolume consumer and commercial products.
- Ability to work in a team environment and demonstrate RF and design engineering leadership and skills that meet and exceed customer expectations.
- Selfmotivated innovative and persistent.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to manage several assignments with varying scope and complexity.
- Creative problem solver.
- Ability to effectively present technical concepts ideas and information in terms that both engineers and nonengineers can understand.
Responsibilities
- Handson experience with WiFi Zigbee Bluetooth/BLE ZWave transceiver IC front ends transmitters crystal oscillators impedance matching networks transmission lines basic PCB antennas and RF ground design.
- Skills in 2.4GHz PCB trace Dipole Monopole Inverted F and chip antenna simulation design measurement and optimization.
- RF circuit design and antenna simulation experience with HFSS ADS EM Pro or equivalent tools.
- Ability to conduct EM simulations and support hardware validation tests of PCB antenna return loss gain efficiency radiation pattern and system TRP.
- Experience making RF measurements such as fundamental and harmonic power receiver sensitivity S Parameters for impedance matching antenna return loss etc.
- Handson experience with common hand tools soldering SMD components and RF test equipment including Vector Network Analyzer Spectrum Analyzer Power Meter Vector Signal Generator EM probes Oscilloscopes etc.
- Experience with Zigbee/802.15.4 WiFi ZWave BLE and SubGHz wireless technologies protocols and RF analysis tools is preferred.
- Advanced RF test skills including the ability to write lowlevel programming and test scripts is preferred.
- Experience with Monte Carlo component sensitivity analysis preferred
- Familiarity with measurement methods of regulatory groups such as FCC CE UL etc is preferred.
- Analog and digital circuit design and troubleshooting related to electronic devices is preferred.
- Experience with microcontrollerbased systems preferably ARM preferred.
- Basic wired connectivity and communication skills with emphasis on UART RS485 I2C and SPI preferred.
- Must be able to travel.
Education
- Bachelors degree in electrical engineering and 5 years of experience developing RF circuits and antennas on FR4 PCB material for consumer and commercial electronics products.
- Masters degree in electrical engineering and 5 years of experience developing RF circuits with antennas for consumer products is preferred.
$160000 $180000 a year
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
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