Description
Design, develop, and optimize radio-frequency (RF) circuits, antennas, and systems for wireless communications and sensing, from architecture through integration, test, and deployment.
- • Verify compliance of RF designs with regulatory, safety, and architectural standards.
- • Keep up-to-date with RF technologies, standards, and tools via literature, events, and peer collaboration.
- • Provide technical support for RF design, integration, test, and field issues.
- • Perform RF system analysis, modeling, and control/firmware development.
- • Document RF configurations, test methods, and design rationale.
- • Train engineering, test, or operations staff on RF system operation.
- • Analyze RF performance data to diagnose issues and optimize designs.
- • Test antennas and passive components for gain, pattern, and matching.
- • Test RF hardware and firmware/software for proper functionality.
- • Select RF components and determine placement/layout for performance and EMC.
- • Conduct site surveys and propagation studies for coverage and interference.
- • Perform verification and acceptance testing of RF systems.
- • Elicit and define RF performance and operational requirements.
- • Evaluate emerging RF technologies, waveforms, and standards.
- • Develop SOPs, work instructions, and process flows for RF development and test.
- • Integrate RF front ends, antennas, baseband, and software into systems.
- • Define and compare RF solution options to support architecture decisions.
- • Create simulations/models of RF circuits, antennas, and propagation.
- • Install, calibrate, test, and maintain RF systems and test equipment.
- • Gather environmental, system, and regulatory constraints to inform RF design.
- • Review RF PCB layouts for impedance control, isolation, and manufacturability.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
