As a Senior Electronics RF Engineer, you will play a key role in our hardware engineering core team, designing and delivering state-of-the-art electronics that power our next-generation drone platforms. In this position you are developing the PCBs and antenna solutions that enable robust, long-range communication and video links to our drones. Working closely with our radio firmware team, you'll bring cutting-edge transceivers and SDR technologies to life, optimizing signal-to-noise ratio, boosting output power, and troubleshooting and improving existing solutions. This is a hands-on role in a fast-paced, agile environment, offering the opportunity to design creative solutions for radio transceivers from concept to mass production.
Beyond RF, you'll contribute your expertise to the broader hardware team, supporting the development of drone-specific PCBs and enhancing the electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) of our designs.
Responsibilities and Duties- Design and develop long-range radio transceiver electronics from requirements to production, including simulation, schematic and PCB design, board bring-up and system-level integration.
- Define and execute the verification and validation of our transceivers, including EMC and thermal optimisation, as well as certification (e.g. FCC and RED).
- Conduct antenna and RF measurement campaigns in our internal laboratory and with external testing facilities.
- Participate in field testing to validate the link budget, latency and interference rejection in real-world conditions, ensuring the drone maintains a stable connection in 'noisy' RF environments.
- Create supporting documents such as concepts, CAD drawings, bills of materials and assembly instructions.
- Troubleshoot issues that span electrical and software boundaries using solid measurement equipment skills (SA, VNA, oscilloscopes, etc.).
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field
- 5+ years in RF system design and/or SDR development, including practical experience with antenna integration, verification and validation
- Skilled in using RF test equipment (spectrum analyzers, signal generators, network analyzers).
- Experienced in designing complex mixed-signal circuit boards, including layouting high-speed interfaces like USB3.1, GbE or MIPI-CSI
- Pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset
- Good verbal and written English communication skills
- Proficiency with Altium is desirable
- Experience with Ansys HFSS or Cadence MWO / Keysight ADS is a plus
- Flexible working hours
- Stock Options
- Generous holiday allowance
- Company pension plan
- Car parking
- Enhanced maternity & paternity leave
- Mental health and wellbeing support
- Learning and development opportunities
We are building the leading software and electronics platform for AI-powered autonomous systems for enterprise and government customers. Our team is supporting the most important missions and solving the most challenging problems.
At Auterion, we bring together the sharpest minds who love to solve the hardest problems. Join a vibrant team built on innovation, openness, and excellence, where you’ll be empowered to develop ideas, collaborate across all levels, and make an impact that matters.
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What We Do
At Auterion we care about providing enterprise with an ecosystem of software-defined drones, payloads, and third party applications within a single easy to use platform based on open-source standards.
We’re leaders in an open-source movement bigger than ourselves and we’ve been on the same mission for over a decade, since our co-founder Lorenz Meier created Pixhawk, MAVLink, QGC, and PX4 (the world’s most widely used open-source drone autopilot operating system).
Our mission is to be the drone platform of choice for enterprise, government, and drone manufacturers while accelerating the drone industry by driving forward open standards to create a common, future-proof roadmap in a thriving, open ecosystem of buyers and vendors.
At Auterion, we bring together the sharpest minds who love to solve the hardest problems. Join a vibrant team built on innovation, openness, and excellence, where you’ll be empowered to develop ideas, collaborate across all levels, and make an impact that matters.
