Pulse Nova, a strategic joint venture between the company and Indra, is building advanced radar and sensing capabilities to support next-generation defense and security systems. We are seeking an experienced Antenna Engineer to lead the design, development, validation, and integration of high-performance antenna solutions for radar applications.
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Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, development, and optimization of antenna architectures for radar systems, including radiating elements, subarrays, array structures, feeding networks, and associated integration concepts.
- Define antenna requirements from system-level performance needs, translating radar objectives into electrical and mechanical design targets such as gain, bandwidth, beamwidth, polarization, efficiency, sidelobe levels, scanning performance, and aperture constraints.
- Perform electromagnetic simulation, design optimization, and technical trade-off analyses using industry-standard tools such as HFSS, CST, or equivalent.
- Develop antenna verification strategies and lead test campaigns, including impedance characterization, radiation pattern measurement, gain and polarization assessment, and correlation between simulation and measured results.
- Support integration of antenna solutions into radar assemblies, ensuring compatibility with RF front ends, TR modules, radomes, mechanical packaging, thermal constraints, and platform-level performance requirements.
- Collaborate with RF, TRM, mechanical, manufacturing, and systems engineering teams to ensure end-to-end antenna performance and successful subsystem integration.
- Provide technical leadership in design reviews, failure investigations, requirements allocation, risk reduction activities, and roadmap definition for future antenna and aperture technologies.
- Ensure technical documentation is complete, traceable, and aligned with internal engineering practices, qualification needs, and customer expectations.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Telecommunications, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related discipline.
- 7+ years of experience in antenna engineering, electromagnetic design, and validation of high-performance RF systems.
- Strong theoretical and practical knowledge of electromagnetics, antenna arrays, propagation, matching, and radiation mechanisms.
- Proven experience with EM simulation tools and interpretation of laboratory/chamber measurement results.
- Experience with radar, EW, SATCOM, or other defense/aerospace antenna applications is highly desirable.
- Ability to lead technical activities across multidisciplinary teams and communicate complex technical issues clearly.
- Familiarity with environmental, qualification, and reliability requirements applicable to mission-critical defense systems.
