Senior RF Systems Engineer - Ground Segment

The Role: This is an opportunity to work on advanced RF systems at the heart of mission-critical Ground Segment capabilities supporting defence and aerospace programmes. The role offers exposure to the full RF system lifecycle, developing high-performance solutions designed to operate in complex and demanding environments. You will join a highly skilled engineering team delivering cutting-edge RF architectures and contributing directly to the performance, resilience, and evolution of next-generation systems.

The position involves the design and development of RF circuitry for high-frequency and microwave applications, including receivers, transmitters, antennas, and frequency synthesizers. Responsibilities include RF hardware design and layout, component selection and evaluation, prototype development, and RF testing to verify performance against requirements. The role also supports manufacturing during build, integration, and test activities, and contributes to formal technical documentation.

In addition, the role focuses on the development of RF system and subsystem architectures, including antennas, transmitters, receivers, low-noise amplifiers, high-power amplifiers, RF conversion elements, and transmission line systems. It includes performing link analysis and optimisation, considering propagation effects and potential interference sources, as well as defining and allocating RF system requirements.

Further responsibilities include identifying and tracking RF technical performance measures (TPMs), conducting system and subsystem trade studies, and supporting CAIV analysis. The role also contributes to lifecycle considerations, including cost, reliability, availability, maintainability, and overall system effectiveness.