Job location: Bangalore, India
About Acron Aviation
Acron Aviation is an agile commercial aviation partner with a long heritage of providing established, industry-certified solutions, as well as future-focused, data-driven innovations. With customers across the globe our employees are committed to the company mission of innovating to create safer skies. For more information visit acronaviation.com
About The Role
Acron Aviation is seeking a self-motivated Specialist RF/Microwave electrical engineer to join our RF Design team as a design engineer to create and deliver mission critical RF systems solutions for various customers. The Specialist RF Electrical Engineer is a key contributor to new design activity (requirements analysis, component selection, schematic capture, layout) as well as supporting existing products within the product portfolio. The engineer will work with both junior and senior RF engineers, as well as cross-functional teams (electrical, mechanical, software, systems) for all technical aspects of the RF/microwave electrical design within the Surveillance product line (including ACAS/TCAS, transponder, DME, UAT, and other RF functions). The engineer creates RF designs for new products, and helps resolve current production and customer issues.
Essential Functions
- Good verbal, written communication, and excellent analytical skills are essential for this position.
- Ability to work independently, as well as contribute to the work of multi-disciplinary engineering teams to assure the successful development of RF systems and assemblies.
- Derive RF hardware requirements from system level specifications.
- Detail functional blocks to support surveillance and communication system architectures.
- Perform RF/analog circuit design and hardware engineering from the component level up to entire systems.
- Support detailed design, analysis, development and testing of hardware.
- Conduct and participate in internal and external system design reviews.
- Present concepts, designs, actionable information, and results to program management and Acron Aviation customers.
- Lead or work in conjunction with mechanical, systems and software engineering to meet challenging performance requirements.
- Support internal peer design reviews, design verification testing of engineering units and oversight of design through production.
- Develop methods for modifying systems to include new RF and wireless capabilities.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 7 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 6 years of prior related experience.
- Candidate must have an academia background in electro-magnetic (EM) and RF/microwave theory.
- Proven design experience implementing value engineering and lean practices
- Proven design experience implementing automation and AI to reduce cost and cycle time
Preferred Additional Skills
- Experience designing RF CCAs operating at frequencies ranging from UHF through E-band, but with focus in L-band. Design activities will include frequency synthesizers, Up/down converters, front-end electronics and other RF electronics.
- Experience with simulation and/or 3D modeling tools such as CST Microwave Studio, Ansoft HFSS, AWR Microwave Office and/or ADS.
- Understanding of critical performance characteristics of passive and active RF components such as Amplifiers, Oscillators, Attenuators, Mixers and Filters. An understanding of how these characteristics relate to a system's performance is a plus.
- Working understanding and knowledge of S-parameters (matching networks, cascade analysis, …), Gain budget analysis (Gain, NF, Linearity, Noise power, … ), and Filtering (types, bandwidth, implementations, … ).
- A strong understanding of noise figure/noise temperature (Eb/No, BER vs. noise, receiver sensitivity, and expected value and variance), temperature effects, interconnection (standard and non-standard impedances), and isolation requirements.
- Experience with DO-160 or MIL-STD qualification of RF electronics (environmental, EMI/EMC).
