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RF & Communications Engineer – UAV Platforms

Design, harden, and test the RF and communications links that keep UAV platforms connected and controllable in contested electromagnetic environments.

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Design and select antennas and RF front ends for command, control, and telemetry links, balancing range, gain, and platform constraints (weight, aerodynamics, mounting) against real mission profiles, not just a spec sheet in a lab.

Own RF system enhancement across the datalink chain — power amplifiers, filtering, frequency planning, and link budget analysis — to push usable range and reliability under real-world interference, not clean-room conditions.

Build and integrate anti-jamming and ECCM measures: frequency-hopping spread spectrum, adaptive nulling, and resilient waveform design so the platform keeps flying and reporting when someone is actively trying to break the link.

Own end-to-end RX/TX testing — bench, anechoic chamber, and live field range — validating link performance, jam resistance, and failure behaviour before a platform is trusted with an operational mission.

Requirements

  • Four or more years in RF engineering, communications systems, or antenna design, ideally for airborne or defence platforms
  • Strong grounding in RF fundamentals — link budgets, antenna theory, propagation, and modulation schemes
  • Practical experience with anti-jamming, frequency-hopping, or spread-spectrum communications design
  • Comfortable with RF test equipment — spectrum analysers, vector network analysers, signal generators — and structured RX/TX validation
  • Experience with encrypted or secure datalinks for command and control
  • Able to debug intermittent, field-only RF issues that never reproduce cleanly on the bench

Nice to have

  • ECCM (Electronic Counter-Countermeasures) design experience
  • SDR (software-defined radio) platform experience (USRP, GNU Radio, or similar)
  • Prior work on military or paramilitary communications systems
  • Antenna simulation tooling (HFSS, CST, or equivalent)

Education

Bachelor's in Electronics & Communication Engineering, RF/Microwave Engineering, or related discipline; Master's preferred for anti-jam/ECCM specialisation

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