AMETEK Level Measurement Solutions (LMS) is seeking an experienced Senior RF Engineer to lead the design, development, analysis, and validation of RF systems and antenna technologies used in industrial instrumentation and sensing products. This is a highly technical, hands-on role focused on RF hardware design, antenna development, electromagnetic simulation, RF performance optimization, and regulatory compliance. The engineer will serve as a subject matter expert for RF and antenna technologies, supporting current and future product platforms.

The successful candidate will work closely with electrical, firmware, mechanical, compliance, and systems engineering teams to solve challenging RF design problems and integrate reliable RF capability into demanding industrial products.

Why This Role Matters

RF design decisions directly affect product performance, communication range, certification success, EMC behavior, power consumption, and field reliability. This position provides the specialized RF and antenna expertise needed to reduce technical risk, strengthen product architecture, and accelerate development of robust industrial products.

What You Will Do

RF System Design

- Design RF subsystems for embedded electronic products and sensing platforms.
- Develop transmitter, receiver, transceiver, and RF front-end architectures.
- Define performance requirements including sensitivity, selectivity, gain, noise figure, bandwidth, linearity, and link-budget targets.
- Evaluate and select RF components including amplifiers, filters, switches, oscillators, baluns, couplers, and matching networks.

Antenna Design and Development
- Design embedded, internal, and external antennas for industrial products.
- Develop antenna matching networks and practical tuning methodologies.
- Optimize antenna efficiency, gain, bandwidth, radiation pattern, polarization, and installation robustness.
- Collaborate with mechanical engineers to integrate antennas within space-constrained metallic and non-metallic enclosures.
- Evaluate the effects of housings, process connections, cables, mounting structures, nearby electronics, and customer installations on antenna performance.

Modeling and Simulation
- Perform electromagnetic simulations using industry-standard RF and antenna modeling tools.
- Analyze antenna behavior, current distribution, near-field effects, coupling, shielding, and interference mechanisms.
- Simulate PCB-level RF behavior, transmission structures, matching networks,



and antenna integration effects.
- Correlate simulations with laboratory measurements and refine models based on test results.

RF Hardware Development
- Create RF schematic designs and provide detailed guidance for RF PCB layout.
- Review PCB layouts for controlled impedance, grounding, shielding, return paths, isolation, and signal integrity.
- Design transmission-line structures, impedance-matching networks, filters, and RF interconnects.
- Support prototype builds, design reviews, component substitutions, and hardware troubleshooting.

Analog Circuit Design and Troubleshooting
- Design, analyze, and troubleshoot analog circuits as required to support RF subsystems and broader product-development needs.
- Develop and evaluate signal-conditioning, filtering, amplification, power-supply, sensor-interface, and mixed-signal circuitry.
- Use oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, signal generators, and other laboratory equipment to diagnose component-, board-, and system-level issues.
- Support prototype development, design verification, sustaining engineering, component substitutions, and root-cause investigations involving analog electronics.

RF Testing and Validation
- Develop RF design-verification plans, test methods, and acceptance criteria.
- Conduct antenna characterization and conducted and radiated RF measurements.
- Measure and analyze gain, return loss, VSWR, efficiency, radiation pattern, sensitivity, output power, noise, harmonics, spurious emissions, and susceptibility.
- Investigate and resolve RF performance issues identified during development, qualification, production, or field use.

EMC and Regulatory Compliance
- Support applicable FCC, ISED, CE/RED, and other global radio-approval activities.
- Lead RF-related EMC and EMI troubleshooting and corrective-action efforts.
- Develop practical shielding, filtering, grounding, spacing, and layout strategies to improve compliance performance.
- Partner with internal compliance specialists and external laboratories during pre-compliance and certification testing.

Technical Leadership




- Act as a senior RF and antenna subject matter expert across LMS product-development teams.
- Establish RF design standards, review practices, simulation methods, and laboratory test procedures.
- Mentor electrical engineers in RF fundamentals, antenna integration, measurement techniques, and design-for-compliance practices.
- Contribute RF expertise to technology roadmaps, product concepts, design reviews, and advanced engineering investigations.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, RF Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 8+ years of professional RF engineering experience, including hands-on product-development responsibility.
- Demonstrated experience designing RF circuits and antennas for commercially released products.
- Strong knowledge of antenna theory, electromagnetics, transmission-line theory, impedance matching, RF propagation, noise analysis, and RF measurement techniques.
- Experience with RF schematic design and RF PCB layout practices.
- Practical experience designing and troubleshooting analog and mixed-signal circuits using standard electronic laboratory equipment.
- Experience using vector network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, oscilloscopes, power meters, and related RF laboratory equipment.
- Experience developing RF verification plans and supporting regulatory or certification testing.
- Strong troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, technical documentation, and cross-functional communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with electromagnetic simulation tools such as Ansys HFSS, CST Studio Suite, Altair FEKO, or equivalent.
- Experience designing antennas for compact, rugged, metallic, or environmentally sealed products.
- Experience with one or more frequency ranges or radio technologies, including sub-GHz, ISM-band, microwave, radar, RFID, GNSS, cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LoRa, or proprietary RF systems.
- Experience with EMC/EMI design, pre-compliance testing, and corrective-action techniques.
- Experience with industrial instrumentation, radar-based measurement, sensors, process automation, aerospace, defense, telecommunications, test equipment, or other high-reliability products.
- Familiarity with hazardous-area, intrinsically protected, or regulated product development is a plus.

📌 Sr. RF Engineer (Karnataka)
🏢 AMETEK
📍 Karnataka