Senior RF Product Engineer

Company: Matrixspace
Location: Hoffman Estates
Posted on: April 4, 2025

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced RF Product Engineer to work with our R&D, manufacturing, operations, and field teams to deliver unique portable radar systems for safety and security purposes. The role is part of a growing, innovative product development team, well known for delivering unique and differentiated RF systems.Responsibilities:

• Support/drive development efforts of sub-circuit, board, and module level verification test and production test for RF products and systems.
• Support/drive product-level environmental and regulatory tests for RF products and systems.
• Work closely with hardware and software teams to transition designs into production, including documentation and process optimization.
• Create, document and conduct comprehensive testing on hardware components and systems to ensure compliance with performance and reliability.
• Product Technical documentation, evaluation kit (EVK) bill of materials, user guides (in cooperation with R&D andSales teams), and all materials to ensure a positive customer "out of box" experience.
• Optimize system configurations for customer applications, including final software programming of product before customer shipment.
• MOL activities including support of field investigations, driving root cause analysis of product customer returns, and recommending current and future product improvements.
• Support root cause efforts for manufacturing yield impacts and ongoing defects.
• Support prototype and production builds and associated internal and customer deliveries.
• Participate in team reviews of hardware design, hardware/software/firmware partitioning, and implementations.
• Define and implement Quality and Reliability aspects for current and future products, including ALT, HALT, and other related tests.Skills:Thorough knowledge of RF Systems; mmWave experience is preferred.
  • Expert in creating complex RF test solutions.
  • Experienced in drawing conclusions from statistics and interpolation; capable of driving root cause analysis and action plans
  • Experience in establishing a scalable product manufacturing and test environment.
  • Demonstrated hardware debugging skills using bench equipment (spectrum analyzer, network analyzer, DC power, etc.).
  • Experience with product level environmental and regulatory tests including thermal shock, over temperature tests with and without humidity, vibration (product and shipping), drop, salt fog, ESD, water/dust ingress, and thermal measurements per applicable standards.
  • Some software experience including C, Python, LabVIEW, and Matlab.
  • Demonstrated success in technical problem-solving skills, and leadership of solving these systemically across an organization.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, good interpersonal skills.Requirements:
    • 8+ years of relevant work experience.
    • Must be a US citizen, with the ability to obtain US government security clearance.
    • Domestic and/or international travel - 10%.Position:
      • Reports to Product Engineering/OperationsManager
      • This role resides in our Hoffman Estates, Illinois location.
      • Highly competitive health and benefits, paid time off, and a collaborative team environment.
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