Senior Staff Antenna Engineer

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Perform architecture and design trades and select antenna approaches based on mission performance, SWaP-C, reliability, producibility, and cost
• Translate system requirements into antenna, aperture, RF front-end, and radome requirements
• Design, analyze, integrate, and test antennas and phased arrays for active and passive RF systems, including wideband and narrowband architectures
• Lead antenna and RF front-end development for AESA systems, from architecture through integration and qualification
• Perform electromagnetic modeling and array analysis using tools such as HFSS, CST, MATLAB, and Python, including custom analysis scripts
• Plan and conduct antenna verification and qualification, and correlate analytical predictions with measured performance
• Build and integrate antenna prototypes, support test campaigns, and participate in field integration and support
• Work directly with thermal, mechanical, RF, and digital engineers to deliver integrated, producible designs

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field, and 10+ years of antenna engineering experience in radar, EW, or related RF sensing applications
• Deep expertise in antenna design in at least one frequency band, with working knowledge of antenna design across other frequency bands
• Experience designing phased arrays and RF front ends, including element design, scan performance, mutual coupling, sidelobe control, polarization, calibration, and beamforming
• Experience with narrowband and wideband architectures such as TCDA, Vivaldi, or log-periodic design
• Hands-on experience with electromagnetic simulation, antenna measurement, and model-to-test correlation
• Experience integrating antennas with beamforming electronics, radomes, structures, and thermal systems
• Ability to work independently on assigned technical efforts and to collaborate effectively across disciplines
• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, or a related field