Senior RF Engineering Supervisor
We are looking for a Senior RF Engineering Supervisor to join our TTC facility. As an RF Engineering Supervisor, you will have hands-on experience with leading a team tasked with specifying, developing, validating, releasing and supporting products utilized in flight test applications. This player coach role requires strong leadership, organizational, and collaboration skills; along with hands on design, analytical problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities.
Location: Newtown, PA
Salary Range: $160,000 - 190,000 Per Year
Please note that the salary range information provided is a general guideline only, reflecting a position based in Pennsylvania. Criteria such as the candidate’s qualifications and relevant experience, the scope of the specific position, as well as market and business considerations will be evaluated when extending an offer.
We Take Care of Our People
Paid Time Off I 401K with Employer Match and Profit Sharing I Health and Wellness Benefits I Learning and Development Opportunities I Referral Program I Competitive Pay I Recognition I Employee Stock Purchase Plan I Inclusive & Supportive Culture *
Your Challenge:
- Supervise experienced team of RF design professionals tasked with designing RF circuits operating at frequencies from 400Mhz through 6Ghz and power levels from milliwatts through 50watts CW, up to 500Watts pulsed power
- Understanding small and large signal parameters associated with matching networks, gain analysis, active filtering.
- Design, simulation, and analysis of analog and RF circuits utilizing Ansys HFSS, Microwave Office, PSpice
- Design, simulation, and analysis of DC power supplies
- Understanding performance characteristics of passive and active circuits such as amplifiers, oscillators, mixers, filters, and PLLs
- Support the design process from creation of requirements through production release.
- Conduct various design reviews: SRR, PDR, CDR and address associated actions.
- Ability to work with a variety of RF test equipment to support troubleshooting, debug, and product optimization.
- Perform de-rating and reliability analyses.
- Support in-house and customer required root cause corrective action requests.
- Support product sustaining activities for diverse product portfolio.
Your Expertise:
- BS in Electrical, Electronics or Computer Engineering (from an accredited college or university) with a minimum of 15 years experience required. MSEE with 15 years experience preferred.
- 2+ years in a management or leadership role.
- Logic design utilizing Xilinx, Microsemi, Intel FPGAs, desired.
- Experience designing and implementing digital filters using MATLAB/Simulink, preferred.
- Familiarity with RF waveforms such as PCMFM, SOQPSK, BPSK, QPSK
- Experience utilizing schematic capture and PCB layout tools.
- Familiarity with transmitter and receiver architecture designs
- Support customers with RF link margin analysis
- Experience supporting Operations for new product deployment as well as sustaining activities.
- Experience supporting Sales and Program Management on customer centric programs.
- Ability to work independently, as well as coordinate cross functional design teams to ensure successful product development.
- Perform employee assessments, including screening and hiring of prospective candidates.
- Manage your team to execute project performance to identified budgets and schedules.
- Track, report and present project performance to senior leadership
- Support customer engagements from inception of RFQ through the entire product development cycle.
- Excellent communication, planning and leadership skills.
- Six Sigma Black Belt preferred.
TTC, a Curtiss-Wright company, is a recognized leader in comprehensive and integrated data acquisition through telemetry systems that include data analysis units, sensors, transmitters, receivers, and ground station analysis tools to measure, record, transmit, and analyze aircraft and munitions parameters during test flights. TTC has broad exposure on more than 140 programs, including high-performance military aircraft such as the F-35 and F-18, major defense flight test centers, spacecraft, missile programs, and commercial and business jets. Key products include data acquisition units, recorders, network products, RF networks, airborne transmitters and receivers, and telemetry expansion cards.
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Compliance Statement
This position may require exposure to export-controlled information and subject to additional security screening. In the event information provided during the security screening reveals ineligibility to access export-controlled information, any offer of employment may be reconsidered or withdrawn.
Curtiss-Wright is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, age, ancestry, legally protected medical condition, family care status, marital status, religion, veteran status, national origin, or any other legally protected status. If you require accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact Talent Acquisition.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Electronics, or Computer Engineering from an accredited college or university
- Minimum 15 years of engineering experience
- At least 2 years in a management or leadership role
- Experience designing RF circuits from 400 MHz through 6 GHz
- Experience with RF matching networks, gain analysis, active filtering, amplifiers, oscillators, mixers, filters, and PLLs
- Experience designing, simulating, and analyzing analog and RF circuits
- Experience designing, simulating, and analyzing DC power supplies
- Experience supporting requirements definition through production release
- Experience conducting SRR, PDR, and CDR design reviews
- Experience using RF test equipment for troubleshooting, debugging, and product optimization
- Experience performing de-rating and reliability analyses
- Experience with schematic capture and PCB layout tools
- Experience with transmitter and receiver architecture designs
- Experience supporting RF link margin analysis
- Experience supporting new product deployment and sustaining activities
- Experience supporting customer-centered programs with Sales and Program Management
- Experience coordinating cross-functional design teams
- Experience conducting employee assessments and participating in candidate screening and hiring
- Experience managing project budgets, schedules, and performance reporting
- Experience supporting customer engagements from RFQ through product development
- Excellent communication, planning, and leadership skills
- Master of Science in Electrical Engineering with 15 years of experience
- Logic design experience using Xilinx, Microsemi, or Intel FPGAs
- Experience designing and implementing digital filters using MATLAB and Simulink
- Familiarity with PCMFM, SOQPSK, BPSK, and QPSK waveforms
- Six Sigma Black Belt certification
What We Do
Curtiss-Wright Corporation is a diversified, multinational provider of highly engineered, technologically advanced products and services. We are the corporate descendants of the Wright brothers, the fathers of flight, and Mr. Glenn Curtiss, the father of naval aviation. In 1929, the companies founded by these three great aviation pioneers merged to form the largest aircraft company at the time, Curtiss-Wright Corporation. Today, we design and manufacture highly engineered, advanced technologies that perform critical functions in demanding conditions in the commercial, industrial, defense, and energy markets, and have operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and internationally. We are listed on the New York Stock Exchange and trade under the symbol CW.







