Additional Information: Full-time benefits and relocation assistance available.

Description: Our Client, a provider of vital resources and mission critical support to enable peacekeepers, is hiring an EM/RF Antenna Expert in Chantilly, VA.

Responsibilities:

• Perform fabrication or repair of antennas and/or RF cable / connector assemblies;
• Provide operation and maintenance of the spherical near field chamber and the tapered far field chambers worldwide;
• Perform development and maintenance of RF circuit measurement tools (load pull and noise figure) and a FEKO antenna model library;
• Interface with outside vendors for technical support for purchasing;
• Provision of FOB experience to populate and test printed circuit boards by hand and with machine enabled tools.

Requirements:

• Experience in antenna design or antenna measurement chamber design and operation (5+ years);
• Experience using Keysight Technologies brand RF measurement equipment to include, but not limited to, network analyzers (linear and non-linear), power meters, spectrum / signal analyzers, signal generators, and noise figure analyzers (2+ years);
• Experience in the operation of various electronic devices such as transmitters, receivers, power supplies, digital audio / video recorders, and audio repeaters and cellular devices (1+ years);
• Experience working with a far field antenna measurement chamber such as a tapered far field chamber, an outdoor far field antenna range, or a compact range (2+ years);
• Experience in the proper construction of RF cable / connector assemblies;
• Experience in one of the following antenna modeling software packages: HFSS, GST or FEKO (2+ years);
• Experience working in a spherical, cylindrical or planar near field antenna measurement chamber (2+ years);
• Programming / architectural programming experience in Visual Basic programming language or equivalent training (1+ year, preferred);
• Experience in Python Programming language (2+ years, preferred);
• Experience in the proper use of the MITS Electronics Precision milling machine and LPKF ProtoLaser U3 (preferred);
• Completion of FEKO training class provided by Altair Engineering or demonstrated equivalent experience;
• IPG J-STD-001 Requirements for Soldering Electrical and Electronic Assembly certification or equivalent;
• Keysight Technologies Certification within 90 days of contract award;
• Active TS/SCI with a Full Scope polygraph (required);
• Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering or Physics;
• Masters of Science in Electromagnetics (preferred).

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Please feel free to apply directly and contact me with your questions at [email protected]