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Job Title: Specialist, Test Engineering

Job Code: 47223

Job Location: San Diego, CA

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employee's work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked - and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced Test Engineer to support the design verification, characterization, and integration of automated RF test systems and subsystems (ATS). The ideal candidate will have solid hands-on experience with RF measurements, automated test solutions, troubleshooting hardware issues, and working in cross-functional engineering environments. This role will contribute to the validation of RF hardware across development, qualification, and manufacturing phases.

Essential Functions:

Design automated test systems to be used in production testing with multi-unit capabilities, automated fault detection and test reporting.

Develop, execute, and document test plans, procedures, and reports for components, subsystems, and full system assemblies involved in product testing.

Design and Perform RF measurements including gain, phase noise, power output, spurious response, sensitivity, EVM, BER, and spectral emissions.

Set up and operate RF test equipment such as:

Spectrum analyzers

Signal generators

Vector network analyzers

Power meters

Oscilloscopes

Troubleshoot and isolate RF performance issues at the board, module, and system level.

Support design verification and validation testing for transmitters, receivers, synthesizers, converters, filters, amplifiers.

Develop automated test solutions using LabVIEW and Test Stand.

Analyze test data and provide clear technical conclusions and recommendations to design teams and program leadership.

Collaborate with RF design, systems, manufacturing, quality, and production teams to resolve technical issues.

Support environmental, qualification, and compliance testing as needed.

Create and maintain test documentation, calibration requirements, and configuration-controlled records.

Assist in transitioning test methods from development into manufacturing or production environments.

Familiarity with Design for Test (DfT) and Design for Manufacturing (DfM).

Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related with 4 years prior experience, Graduate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related with 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.

Secret Security Clearance required.

Preferred Additional Skills:

Understanding of RF/microwave principles, including:

S-parameters (Gain/Loss/VSWR/Return Loss)

Phase noise

Harmonics/Spurs

Experience utilizing RF hardware across development and/or production environments. Such as:

Filters, Amplifiers, Attenuators, Couplers, Splitters, Switches

Hands-on proficiency with common RF lab instrumentation.

Experience schematics, block diagrams, interface control documents, and test requirements.

Ability to troubleshoot and root-cause hardware and measurement issues.

Experience with test automation and data analysis tools.

Experience with digital logic, differential communication protocols.

Experience with schematic capture, and PWB design.

Experience with wireless communications, telemetry, radar, EW, SATCOM, or aerospace/defense RF systems.

Familiarity with digital modulation analysis and communications measurements like BPSK, QPSK, OQPSK.

Experience with automated test equipment architecture and script-based test development.

Knowledge of environmental and qualification testing for ruggedized hardware.

Experience with encryption/decryption devices and systems.

Familiarity with Linux, VHDL, and general development board platforms like ZYNQs, Zed Boards, Arty Boards, etc…

Experience with Python, C++, and MATLAB

Experience supporting design-to-production transitions.

Experience generating and deriving system requirements from product specifications, RVTMs, VCRMs, and Validation Plans.

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in California is $92,500 - $171,500. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.