Sr. RF Engineer

Company Overview

ARA is a C5ISR company that designs, manufactures, tests and installs cutting edge antenna technologies to keep our joint forces secure, superior and safe. We create and deliver a vast array of products for both military and civilian applications that combine innovative discoveries from companies we’ve acquired, including SI2 Technologies and AQYR, whose technologies complement and enhance our trusted systems. Our capabilities span from Electronic Warfare and Military Communications to Radar and Satellite Systems. For more than 60 years, ARA has provided our military with unparalleled information, improved situational awareness, immediate threat detection and precision targeting.

From ideation to installation, ARA supplies unique antenna systems in both high-volume and smaller quantities to meet our customers’ needs and ensure success. Our US locations have fully staffed outdoor antenna test ranges, engineers, and on-site manufacturing lines and machine shops.

Job Summary

We are always seeking Senior RF Antenna Electrical Engineer's to join our team. We are looking for someone with experience with or exposure to our products and/or development of our products. If you are a highly-motivated engineer focused on delivering products and owning projects from concept to delivery

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Designing new antenna products; front end systems for RADAR, SATCOM, EW, MILCOM and Communications applications.
• Act as the Lead Engineer and manage multiple design projects to successfully deliver system products.
• Provide technical supervision of Electrical Engineers as needed.
• Write technical proposals in response to RFPs and take diverse specifications in RF (G/T, EIRP, AESA, PESA) along with a detailed. understanding of mechanical design processes to deliver complex products.
• Create Test Requirements, ATP, and Manuals.
• Design systems engineering processes.
• Test antennas and analyze antennas.
• Support manufacture of production antennas
• Provide customer support as required.

Position Qualifications

Competency Statement(s)

• Adaptability - Adapts to change, open to new ideas and responsibilities.
• Communication - Ability to clearly communicate and interact with others.
• Decision Making - Able to reach a decision, takes thoughtful approach when considering options, seeks input from others, makes difficult decisions.
• Employee Management - Defines responsibilities, motivates employees, delegates well.
• Ethics - Honest, accountable, maintains confidentiality.
• Initiative - Ability to take on task before being asked.
• Leadership - Provides strong leadership, sets a good example, skilled decision maker, motivator, and encourager.
• Organized - Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.
• Quality - Strives to eliminate errors, accurate work is a priority, seeks opportunities to improve products/services.

Requirements

• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
• Experience or exposure with the following antennas:

Parabolic UHF/VHF Helical

Wideband Multiband Cavity-backed

Slot Spiral Log periodic/dipole/Yagi

Microstrip Patch Feed networks

Technical Skillset to include experience or exposure to:

• Feedhorns, Dual and quad ridge horns, arrays, RF front end systems.
• AESA/PESA design, Waveguide design
• Active electronic components and design
• Experience with vector network analyzers
• Far-field measurements
• Simulation experience with HFSS, CST, TICRA, FEKO, AWR, or MATLAB
• Soldering
• Prototyping

Education

• BSEE (minimum), MSEE or PhD Preferred
• MS-EE with 8+ years of experience is preferred.

Antenna Research Associates, Inc. and its subsidiaries encourage diversity in the workplace; we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran