Company Overview
ARA is a C5ISR company that designs, manufactures, tests and installs cutting edge antenna technologies to keep our joint forces secure, superior and safe. We create and deliver a vast array of products for both military and civilian applications that combine innovative discoveries from companies weve acquired, including SI2 Technologies and AQYR, whose technologies complement and enhance our trusted systems. Our capabilities span from Electronic Warfare and Military Communications to Radar and Satellite Systems. For more than 60 years, ARA has provided our military with unparalleled information, improved situational awareness, immediate threat detection and precision targeting.
From ideation to installation, ARA supplies unique antenna systems in both high-volume and smaller quantities to meet our customers needs and ensure success. Our US locations have fully staffed outdoor antenna test ranges, engineers, and on-site manufacturing lines and machine shops.
Job Summary
We are always seeking Senior RF Antenna Electrical Engineer's to join our team. We are looking for someone with experience with or exposure to our products and/or development of our products. If you are a highly-motivated engineer focused on delivering products and owning projects from concept to delivery
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Designing new antenna products; front end systems for RADAR, SATCOM, EW, MILCOM and Communications applications.
Act as the Lead Engineer and manage multiple design projects to successfully deliver system products.
Provide technical supervision of Electrical Engineers as needed.
Write technical proposals in response to RFPs and take diverse specifications in RF (G/T, EIRP, AESA, PESA) along with a detailed. understanding of mechanical design processes to deliver complex products.
Create Test Requirements, ATP, and Manuals.
Design systems engineering processes.
Test antennas and analyze antennas.
Support manufacture of production antennas
Provide customer support as required.
Position Qualifications
Competency Statement(s)
Adaptability - Adapts to change, open to new ideas and responsibilities.
Communication - Ability to clearly communicate and interact with others.
Decision Making - Able to reach a decision, takes thoughtful approach when considering options, seeks input from others, makes difficult decisions.
Employee Management - Defines responsibilities, motivates employees, delegates well.
Ethics - Honest, accountable, maintains confidentiality.
Initiative - Ability to take on task before being asked.
Leadership - Provides strong leadership, sets a good example, skilled decision maker, motivator, and encourager.
Organized - Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.
Quality - Strives to eliminate errors, accurate work is a priority, seeks opportunities to improve products/services.
Requirements
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
Experience or exposure with the following antennas:
Parabolic UHF/VHF Helical
Wideband Multiband Cavity-backed
Slot Spiral Log periodic/dipole/Yagi
Microstrip Patch Feed networks
Technical Skillset to include experience or exposure to:
Feedhorns, Dual and quad ridge horns, arrays, RF front end systems.
AESA/PESA design, Waveguide design
Active electronic components and design
Experience with vector network analyzers
Far-field measurements
Simulation experience with HFSS, CST, TICRA, FEKO, AWR, or MATLAB
Soldering
Prototyping
Education
BSEE(minimum), MSEE or PhD Preferred
MS-EE with 8+ years of experience is preferred.
Antenna Research Associates, Inc. and its subsidiaries encourage diversity in the workplace; we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran
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