Contract RF Design Engineer Paignton, DevonPaignton, Devon6 months initiallyRate – open (typically £65-75ph ltd) Outside of IR35This 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 preferableThe 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