{"id":3967,"date":"2026-07-14T09:53:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theemcnews.co.uk\/?post_type=job_listing&#038;p=3967"},"modified":"2026-07-14T09:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:56:17","slug":"rf-systems-engineer-20","status":"publish","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/theemcnews.co.uk\/index.php\/job\/rf-systems-engineer-20\/","title":{"rendered":"RF Systems Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_8607983c _0581e12e e6e77c93 _3020ff2e _2ce2af78 _0a3e6c1f f9560544 fcb25e80\">\n<h2 class=\"_47244c27 _9272c8fa a299ffbc _271ce34f bd2b239d _4300d2a5 _7897bc42 fd73338e d70d148b e96ace13 _5dd02719\">About the job<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>RF Systems Engineer \u2013 Porton Down &#8211; Permanent \u2013 On-site<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ea61449f e2f36b6b fcb25e80\">\n<li><strong>25 days annual leave inclusive of up to 3 days Christmas shutdown<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Buy or sell up to 5 days\u2019 annual leave<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Annual Wellbeing allowance<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Two pension schemes to choose from<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Private Medical Insurance + discounts for additional family members<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Life Assurance scheme up to 4 x salary<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Share Save scheme<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Electric\/Hybrid Car leasing scheme<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cycle to work scheme<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Retail discounts<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Career development support<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Come and join our expanding Electronic Warfare Operations Support Group (EWOS) which is made up of 60+ electronic warfare specialists. From all manner of backgrounds, our engineers, scientists, and ex-military personnel combine their experience to help our customers achieve the true operational potential and help keep their people and platforms safe.<\/p>\n<p>We are continuing to grow our team at Porton Down, Salisbury, working on key state-of-the-art research, development, and delivery projects, led by our technical customer.<\/p>\n<p>The primary role is to support testing and optimisation of RF receiver hardware in a new synthetic range (laboratory), with additional support to over-the-air testing (anechoic chamber) and field trials. This will require using a range of RF test equipment to perform digital and analogue injection testing within synthetic EW scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>This role will allow autonomy to explore ways to optimise RF receiver performance through configurable memory (mission data) to improve real-world operation of the system when deployed to target platforms. This exploratory process will focus on the increasingly congested and contested electromagnetic environment, developing tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) for the RF receiver.<\/p>\n<p>To accurately represent the synthetic use cases these systems are required to integrate into, the role will liaise with military, academia, industry and international stakeholders, to complete the validation process.<\/p>\n<p>This new lab will be using the latest commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) development Radio Frequency System on Chip (RFSoC) boards to achieve a high-fidelity electromagnetic environment. You will become and expert in configuring and calibrating these devices to aid testing of the RF receiver systems.<\/p>\n<p>This role also has influence over future development work, driving requirements through analysis of current EW systems. As such and understanding of requirements generation and the engineering lifecycle will be valuable to the role.<\/p>\n<p>Working autonomously with unprecedented access to the customer, you will be crucial to ensure the success of these key projects, all whilst being supported by our on-site and home-site MASS teams.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The invaluable experience you\u2019ll bring, to help us achieve more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Essential:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ea61449f e2f36b6b fcb25e80\">\n<li>Ability to work autonomously to optimise complex EW system performance.<\/li>\n<li>Understanding of RF sensor systems and Test &amp; Evaluation (T&amp;E) practices.<\/li>\n<li>Proficient with RF test equipment (signal generators, oscilloscopes, and spectrum analysers).<\/li>\n<li>Experience calibrating hardware and software models into a laboratory environment.<\/li>\n<li>STEM Degree or extensive experience with RF Electronics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Desirable:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ea61449f e2f36b6b fcb25e80\">\n<li>Experience creating scripts\/programmes (MATLAB, Python, or similar).<\/li>\n<li>Strong background in EW systems and concepts, including radar systems.<\/li>\n<li>Experience across the engineering lifecycle (Requirements, V&amp;V, Acceptance).<\/li>\n<li>Understanding of Analogue &amp; Digital Signal Processing techniques.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wellbeing <\/strong>is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. Our people are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programmes and policies that support individuals including, mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive employee assistance programme<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our non-negotiables:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Due to the highly secure nature of the projects that you will be involved with, you <strong>must<\/strong> be:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ea61449f e2f36b6b fcb25e80\">\n<li><strong>A UK National and eligible to work in the UK<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Eligible to obtain and maintain a UK Government SC-level security clearance<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Apply today<\/strong> to see how working for MASS could work for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":632,"template":"","meta":{"_promoted":"","_job_location":"Salisbury, England, United Kingdom","_application":"https:\/\/careers.mass.co.uk\/vacancies\/756\/rf-systems-engineer.html","_company_name":"MASS","_company_website":"https:\/\/mass.co.uk\/","_company_tagline":"","_company_twitter":"","_company_video":"","_filled":0,"_featured":0,"_remote_position":0,"_job_salary":"","_job_salary_currency":"","_job_salary_unit":""},"job-categories":[152],"job-types":[146],"class_list":{"0":"post-3967","1":"job_listing","2":"type-job_listing","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","5":"hentry","7":"job-type-full-time"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theemcnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings\/3967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theemcnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theemcnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/job_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theemcnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theemcnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theemcnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"job_listing_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theemcnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-categories?post=3967"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theemcnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-types?post=3967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}