Spin - Cascaded Beamformer for Lens Antenna and

**Satellite Applications Catapult**
- **Team**: Future Systems
- **Grade**: SPIN
- **Salary**: £2,100 a month
- **Location**: Harwell, Didcot, Oxfordshire with potential for home working once a week
- **Closing**: 12:00pm, 3rd Apr 2023 BST

**Perks and benefits**

Flexible working hours

Work from home option

Healthcare

Life Insurance

Wellness programs

Employee Assistance Programme

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Extra holiday

Sabbatical Opportunities

Professional development

Paid volunteer days

Salary sacrifice

Team social events

Extracurricular clubs

Cycle to work scheme

**Project Description**:
The proposed system will offer a full 2D beam-steering with high gain, suitable for ground segment antennas to cater LEO constellations. The beamforming and beam-steering capabilities which is aimed for reduced power consumption, increase data rate, and reduced latency. Such systems requires a smart beam-steering algorithm to manage several beams generated by such RF systems.
So part of the proposed project is to develop, improve and implement a smart algorithm to cater inter-satellite and intra-beam handover. The algorithm is aimed to be created for generalised beam-steering antenna setup, and will be tested with the lens antenna system
**Applicant Specification**:
It is important that applicant should have good knowledge of antenna theory, CAE/CAD packages. IT would be preferred, although not essential, if the applicant has completed Bachelor’s degree and pursuing education for master’s degree MSc, or MEng or higher.
**Minimum Requirements**:
CST Microwave Studio, PCB Design Tool (such as Altium), Beamformer IC, knowledge of PCB fabrication process, electronic components, etc.
**Further details**:
**How we work**:
We strive to create a high trust environment that enables team members to bring their whole selves to work - this helps to create the foundations of an innovation culture. Our shared values are critical to this:

- We care - for our people, our partners, and our planet
- We connect - and engage with people and ideas
- We learn - and grow, as people and as an industry

Underpinning this is our belief in great teams, our combined efforts will always deliver outcomes beyond that of any individual providing we are honest through debate, experiment and reflect, and create shared resolutions in support of our purpose. Live these values, work to our principles, take ownership to deliver, and we are certain you will thrive with us.
This job description set outs the skills and experience we believe are needed to be able to do this job but, research also tells us women are much more likely than men to take this list of requirements as absolute and self-select out of the process. If you think you can deliver this role then we want to hear from you, regardless of the boxes you didn’t tick.

**Job Type**: Contract

**Salary**: £2,100.00 per month