Tekiknow Technologies is looking for a Technical Manager to be the technical authority for our near-field (NFTR) and compact antenna test range (CATR) chambers, and the customer-facing technical voice from enquiry to acceptance. Responsibilities
• Passionate about antennas and measurement, and motivated by seeing a chamber perform to specification on site.
• Comfortable with customers and with commercial discussion; not a research-only profile.
• Willing to be accountable for delivered performance, including the acceptance test result.
• Rigorous with numbers and in documenting decisions.
• Builds on first principles and is ready to learn chamber engineering on the job. Qualifications
• M.
E./M.
Tech or Ph.
D. in RF & Microwave, Antennas or Electromagnetics.
• 5+ years of hands-on antenna design and measurement, with uncertainty analysis.
• Robust grounding in near-field to far-field transformation (planar, cylindrical, spherical), probe correction and truncation error.
• Working knowledge of CATR: reflector types, feed design and quiet-zone evaluation.




• Working knowledge of anechoic chamber fundamentals: absorber selection and layout, reflectivity, RF shielding, positioner and scanner accuracy.
• Proficiency with VNAs, antenna measurement software and standard gain horns.
• Ability to write and review a technical specification and an acceptance test plan.
• Fluent written and spoken English; confident in front of senior customer engineers.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites in India and abroad. Good to have
• Sponsored-project or industry work with DRDO, ISRO, defence PSUs, aerospace or telecom customers.
• Experience commissioning or running an NFTR or CATR facility, or a prior role at a chamber or measurement-system vendor.
• RCS or radome measurement exposure.
• Publications or patents in arrays, reflectors, feeds or radomes.
• Exposure to project costing, vendor management and customer contracts.

📌 Technical Manager – NFTR (Chennai)
🏢 Tekiknow Technologies India
📍 Chennai