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We are working with an industry leading company seeking a Senior RF Design Engineer to join their expanding team for work on various projects from initial stages to production. Offering design tools, experienced engineers, and in-house manufacturing capabilities for RF/mmW technology. The role involves developing new products in collaboration with the team. The company creates a variety of products, ranging from specialised devices to large-scale telecommunications and defence equipment. Job Purpose: The role involves designing RF/mmW components and systems, ensuring they meet electrical performance, quality, cost, and manufacturability standards. Responsibilities Overview as a Senior RF Design Engineer: • Design and develop RF/mmW sub-circuits, sub-modules, and systems for telecommunications and defence products. • Specify, design, simulate, and realise RF/mmW elements, including transmission lines, various filter types, couplers, synthesizers/multipliers, and IC/MMIC components. • Collaborate with the mechanical design team on electromechanical concept designs. • Collaborate with the electronics/PCB design team for support electronics and high-frequency PCB layout. • Analyse system line-up. • Perform thermal, MTBF, and component derating analysis, adhering to company/customer requirements. • Prepare design documentation like design logbooks, data packs, and peer reviews for design release and production. • Deliver fully verified and documented designs within project constraints. • Participate in and initiate design reviews to manage risk. • Verify and validate designs, prepare test specifications, reports, and reliability testing. • Maintain an up-to-date design compliance matrix with evidence of compliance data. • Troubleshoot and diagnose manufactured products during introduction, defining diagnostic procedures. Requirements as a Senior RF Design Engineer: • Relevant degree in RF/Communications Engineering or equivalent. • Proficiency in RF design tools like Microwave Office, CST, EMPro, and ADS. • Demonstrable experience in microwave circuit/system design, including line-up analysis, tolerance/yield analysis, and DFM. • Experience in transceiver product design. Benefits: • Competitive Salary Package • Pension contribution (up to 8%) • Long term incapacity benefit 75% salary • Life assurance 4x salary • 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) • Holiday Purchase Scheme • Flexible/Hybrid working • And much, much, more. If you’re interested in applying for this position as a Senior RF Design Engineer, please contact Zac Taylor at IC Resources.

HOURS: Full Time CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed Term (Concluding Dec 2029) LOCATION: Bristol (Hybrid) ABOUT US The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions, with the most recent exercise concluding in 2021. It is a peer review assessment process involving submissions from higher education institutions across the UK. Research England delivered REF 2021 on behalf of the four UK funding bodies and the results have driven the annual distribution of approximately £2 billion of research funding to UK universities. MAIN OUTPUTS Availability and capacity management. Ensure the correct implementation of standards and procedures, identifying capacity issues, stipulating the required changes and instigating these. You know how to initiate remedial action. Development process optimisation. Analyse current processes, identify and implement opportunities to optimise processes, and lead and develop a team of experts to deliver service improvements. Help to evaluate and establish requirements for the implementation of changes by setting policy and standards. Information security . You know about information security and can design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services. Modern standards approach . You have a strong understanding of and can apply the most appropriate, modern standards and practices. You know how to take responsibility for coaching and guiding others. Prototyping . You approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others. You can establish design patterns and iterate them. You can use a variety of methods of prototyping and choose the most appropriate ones. Service support . You can demonstrate a breadth of understanding of service support. You can identify, locate and fix faults. Systems integration . You can define the integration build. You can coordinate build activities across systems and understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities. ASSESSMENT CRITERIA Experience of Securely building infrastructure within the AWS cloud using AWS technologies such as lambda, S3, EC2, ECS, IAM, EBS, Elastic Beanstalk, Route53, SES, RDS, Elasticache, Autoscaling, Load balancers, VPC, etc... Building and configuring new server platforms and infrastructure, using IaC tools - Terraform (essential), Cloudformation, Ansible Working experience of databases, such as Oracle/PL­SQL, SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB). Strong scripting and language skills i.e. Ruby, Bash, Python, JS, Go ... Experience of core technologies such as containerization (docker), container orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS) Identification and development of resources to establish a sustainable internal capability for long term DevOps and hosting needs. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION DEVELOPING TALENT : We are committed to developing employees in their roles throughout their career. Learning and development plans enable employees to continue their professional development through training and development opportunities such as e-learning, classroom training and on-the-job experiences. We encourage our employees to share their learning across teams and organisations. BENEFITS: UKRI can offer the successful candidate: - Flexible Working - 30 days annual leave + Public Holidays - Access to Civil Service Pension Scheme - Various everyday discounts through our dedicated provider