Contract RF design engineer

Contract RF Design Engineer Paignton, Devon
Paignton, Devon
6 months initially
Rate – open (typically £65-75ph ltd) Outside of IR35
This is a new electronics design engineer position that requires excellent RF design experience.
An experienced RF design engineer is required to join a start-up involved with the research, development and design of optics / photonic technologies. Their technologies radically improve network speed and energy efficiency.
This RF design engineer role requires: Contract RF Design Engineer

• Excellent RF schematic capture experience, IDEALLY working on 40 Ghz bandwidth circuits for highspeed network hardware (or with a strong understanding of the practices required)
  
• Experience of managing losses, impedance and managing material usage to optimise electronics design.
  
• You will work with suppliers to oversee, approve and deliver PCB layouts and will be involved with pre and post layout simulation and validation.
  
• Experience of using tools such as Ansys HFSS or ADS.
  
• Mixed signal hardware design experience. In addition, experience of high-speed optical transceiver design would be preferred.
  You will need a strong RF electronics product development background and experience with highspeed network interface or optical transceiver products would be great. This would be gained in a commercial product development environment.
  RF design candidates may have worked in other arenas involving highspeed network technologies (e.g. network, and data centre hardware, telecoms systems, storage / servers / HPC, consumer electronics or specialist test and measurement products).
  Skills / Experience required: Contract RF Design Engineer
  
• A degree or masters in a relevant subject area (e.g. electronics engineering)
  
• Experience of electronics / RF design for products used in high-speed networking applications – e.g. optical transceivers, network / data centre electronics, telecoms systems, storage / servers / HPC, consumer electronics or specialist test and measurement products
  
• Excellent RF schematic capture experience, IDEALLY working on 40 Ghz bandwidth circuits for highspeed network hardware (or with a strong understanding of the practices required)
  
• Experience of managing losses, impedance and managing material usage to optimise electronics design.
  
• You will work with suppliers to oversee, approve and deliver PCB layouts and will be involved with pre and post layout simulation and validation.
  
• Experience of using tools such as Ansys HFSS, ADS and PADS.
  
• Mixed signal hardware design experience. In addition, experience of high-speed optical transceiver design would be preferred.
  
• Knowledge of highspeed network interface design and optical transceiver systems would be preferable
  The Contract RF Design Engineer role is based on site in Paignton, Devon 5 days per week. Relocation assistance and working visas may be possible for the right candidate