Clearance: Must Have Positive Vetting
Location: ACT
Experience Level: APS6 Equivalent
Availability: From 1 August 2025
Working Arrangement: Onsite Full Time (40 hrs/week)
Job details
Radio Frequency Technologist is required to work across a variety of disciplines including RF hardware design software configuration testing and completing systems engineering documentation and procedures. They will be required to support team members in their required area of expertise and share their knowledge to aid in improving staff understanding.
Requirements
Essential Criteria
1. DESN 4: Designs system components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures design standards patterns and methodology. Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and tradeoffs. Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders and to handle functional and nonfunctional requirements. Models simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed system components to enable approval by stakeholders. Produces detailed design specifications to form the basis for the construction of systems. Reviews verifies and improves own designs against specifications.
2. RFEN 4: Investigates and resolves systemwide fault conditions using a wide range of diagnostic tools and techniques. Reconfigures equipment to circumvent temporary outages. Specifies selects and integrates RF devices in a system. Defines internal communication protocols for transmission over the available frequencies. Reconfigures devices and software to optimise performance.
3. TEST 3: Designs detailed functional test cases and scripts covering various scenarios and boundary values. Actively participates in requirement and design reviews refining test plans based on insights gained. Undertakes structured exploratory testing to investigate and verify functionality. Prepares test data configures environments and automates repeatable tests. Executes tests logs defects with detailed information and analyses results to assess system functionality.
Desirable:
1. Experience in Satellite communication
2. Electrical Trade Certificate
3. Application of ARPANSA RF Standard
4. Experience in RFoIP technologies
Senior Technology and Security
Education
Senior Technology and Security