RF Systems Engineer

4 weeks ago


Basildon, Essex, United Kingdom Leonardo Full time

About the Role

Leonardo is seeking an experienced RF Systems Engineer to join their team in Southampton, Basildon, or Bristol. As an RF Systems Engineer, you will work with industry-leading engineers to develop and design RF products, supporting the development of new and existing products, and providing solutions for customers.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Research and development of low Technology Readiness Level (TRL) RF systems
  • Investigating and defining RF/Communication system architectures and protocols
  • Planning and conducting studies in various communication technologies, including SDR, RF, and IP
  • Supporting system integration and test activities
  • Capturing stakeholder and system requirements
  • Modeling components of the system design

Senior/Lead Engineers will have the opportunity to act as Design Authority throughout the project lifecycle and mentor and coach other engineers.

About You

You will have proven experience as a RF Engineer, either through industry or advanced academic research. Ideally, you will have a relevant education, although a deep theoretical knowledge is not necessarily required. Successful RF systems engineers will be able to apply their engineering experience that we can build upon through training, team working, and mentoring.

Attributes include:

  • Experience of Communication systems, IP Communication, Modulation techniques, and performance
  • Experience working with telecommunication (2G/3G/4G) Air-Interface specification
  • Experience with electronics assembly and testing, inclusive of RF systems under software control
  • Knowledge of low power RF hardware, such as Receivers, Transmitters, Synthesizers, and filters
  • Knowledge of military and international specifications and standards for EMC, Environmental, and safety, applicable to body-worn and vehicle installation

Domain specialisms include:

  • Digital signal processing
  • RF systems
  • Electro-optic systems
  • Medical imaging systems, image processing, image/object classification/identification
  • Computer vision image processing (e.g., segmentation, clustering)
  • Multi-sensor data fusion and tracking
  • Real-time data simulation/generation

Candidates skilled within the following Systems Engineering specialisms are highly desirable:

  • Problem definition
  • Systems Architecture
  • Synthetic Environments
  • Performance Modeling
  • Verification and Validation
  • System of Systems

All successful applicants must be eligible for full security clearance and access to UK-caveated and ITAR-controlled information. For more information and guidance, please visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels

What we Offer

A competitive salary based on your experience and skills and an award-winning benefits package that includes:

  • Flexible Working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part-time opportunities, please talk to us.
  • Company-funded flexible benefits: Access to private healthcare, dental schemes, Workplace ISA, Go Green Car Scheme, technology, and lifestyle options (£500 annual allowance)
  • Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays, option to buy/sell leave and to accrue up to 12 additional flexi leave days per year
  • Pension: Award-winning pension scheme (up to 10% employer contribution)
  • Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme with access to free mental health support, financial wellbeing support, and network groups to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to diversity & inclusion (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Reservists, Carers)
  • Lifestyle: Discounted Gym membership, Cycle to work scheme
  • Training: Free access to more than 4000 online courses via Coursera
  • Bonus: Scheme in place for all employees at management level and below


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