Senior RF Systems Engineer

Overview

You will shape system architectures for beam-steered antenna technologies used in satellite communications, radar and RF sensing. In a hands-on, cross-functional environment, you translate customer needs into technical requirements and drive system-level trade-offs to deliver deployable hardware. You’ll lead multidisciplinary integration across RF, antenna, electronics, mechanical and software domains, defining verification and qualification strategies. This role offers direct influence on product definition and progression toward production, with close collaboration alongside senior engineering leadership.

Pay / Benefits

• share options
• pension contributions
• 25 days’ holiday
• 8 bank holidays
• flexible working

Responsibilities

• Define system architectures for beam-steered antenna products across comms, radar and sensing
• Translate customer requirements into technical specs, subsystem requirements and interfaces
• Manage system-level trade-offs (SWaP, cost, manufacturability, reliability)
• Lead multidisciplinary integration across RF, antenna, electronics, mechanical and software
• Define verification, validation and qualification strategies including test methods and acceptance criteria
• Support environmental, EMC, thermal and field validation activities
• Help establish and improve requirements management, configuration control and wider systems engineering processes
• Coordinate engineering activities and suppliers, support product demos and field trials toward production

Key requirements

• Systems architecture: defining complex hardware architectures and translating requirements into specs
• RF systems: SATCOM, radar, phased arrays, RF integration or defence electronics
• Multidisciplinary integration: managing interfaces across RF, electronics, mechanical and software subsystems
• Verification and validation: defining approaches, managing requirements, supporting system qualification
• Hardware development: delivering complex hardware from concept through integration and verification
• Technical decision-making: evaluating trade-offs against performance, cost and constraints

• Stakeholder management
• Analytical thinking
• Strong communication
• MBSE
• SysML
• Phased-array or beam-steering technology (desirable)

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