job summary:
Seeking a RF Engineering Manager for a high growth DoD contractor in the Frederick, MD area.
The RF Engineering Manager would be responsible for leading the development of advanced RF and microwave products and subsystems from concept through production. This role provides technical and people leadership to an engineering team developing complex receivers, tuners, and RF subsystems.
Full W-2 benefits available including a bonus! APPLY NOW!
location: Frederick, Maryland job type: Permanent salary: $170,000 - 190,000 per year work hours: 9am to 5pm education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
Team Leadership & Development: Supervise, mentor, and allocate resources for an engineering team across active programs, proposals, and internal capability initiatives.
Technical Architecture & Design: Lead the architecture, component-level design, and circuit-card development of RF/microwave subsystems (amplifiers, mixers, filters, synthesizers/PLLs, and frequency converters).
Performance Analysis & Trades: Guide trade studies and analysis covering gain distribution, noise figure, dynamic range, linearity (IP2/IP3), spurious performance, phase noise, and sensitivity.
Simulation & Validation: Oversee RF modeling using modern simulation tools (e.g., Keysight Genesys, Cadence AWR, HFSS) and ensure tight correlation between simulations, lab measurements, and production test data.
Integration & Troubleshooting: Drive hands-on hardware bring-up, debugging, and root-cause failure investigations alongside firmware, digital, mechanical, and software teams.
Lifecycle & DFM/DFT Execution: Partner with Systems, Manufacturing, and Test Engineering to ensure designs meet cost, testability, manufacturability, and environmental qualification standards.
Program Management & Bidding: Manage engineering schedule, cost, and design-to-cost targets. Support proposals, basis-of-estimate (BOE) development, RFPs/RFQs, and technical presentations for customer and business leadership.
Strategy & Roadmap: Establish reusable design architectures, standards, and maintain the long-term RF technology and lab equipment roadmap.
qualifications:
Education: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, STEM, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent experience).
Experience:
10+ years of relevant RF/microwave engineering experience.
5+ years of direct technical leadership or engineering management experience.
Technical Expertise:
Proven track record designing and testing RF/microwave hardware at the component, circuit-card, and subsystem levels.
Deep knowledge of RF receiver/tuner architectures, frequency planning, synthesis, and signal-chain design.
Proficiency with RF simulation software (e.g., Cadence AWR, Keysight Genesys, Ansys HFSS, MATLAB).
Hands-on proficiency with lab instrumentation (VNAs, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, power meters).
Leadership & Communication: Demonstrated ability to lead technical reviews, troubleshoot complex multi-domain systems, manage project budgets/schedules, and clearly present technical tradeoffs to multidisciplinary teams and leadership.
skills:
people leadership,new business,engineering management,mentor,multidisciplinary,RF Engineering,simulation,deep technical expertise
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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.