RF Module Technical Leadership - Serve as the technical lead for the design, integration, and lifecycle management of advanced RF modules supporting broadband wireless, satellite, or high-speed communications systems.

- Define RF architectures and establish performance budgets, including gain, noise figure, linearity, phase noise, agile range, and spurious emissions.
- Ensure RF subsystem performance meets specifications across process, voltage, temperature, aging, and environmental operating conditions.
- Perform system-level trade studies and evaluate the impact of changing technical requirements, component selections, and operating environments. RF Design Review & Engineering Oversight - Review and approve RF schematics, PCB layouts, and design documentation developed by internal engineering teams and external design partners.
- Ensure best practices are followed for:
- RF grounding and isolation - Signal integrity and high-speed layout - EMI/EMC mitigation - Thermal management - Mixed-signal design and partitioning - Participate in design reviews, technical readiness assessments, and product milestone reviews while identifying technical risks and recommending mitigation strategies. Manufacturing & Product Industrialization - Act as the primary engineering interface with contract manufacturers, fabrication partners, assembly houses, and component suppliers.
- Lead Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Design for Testability (DFT), and Design for Serviceability (DFS) reviews to maximize production yield, reliability, and long-term manufacturability.
- Develop and maintain:
- Manufacturing test strategies - Acceptance and qualification criteria - Golden reference units - Correlation and calibration plans - Support engineering validation, design verification, production validation, and manufacturing ramp-up activities.
- Analyze manufacturing data, yield trends, and field returns to identify root causes and implement corrective actions.




- Manage Engineering Change Requests (ECRs) and Engineering Change Orders (ECOs), ensuring full product lifecycle traceability. RF Test, Validation & Verification - Develop and maintain RF, functional, and system-level test procedures.
- Support laboratory validation and production testing, including measurements such as:
- Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) - Modulation Error Ratio (MER) - Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio (ACLR) - Phase Noise - Harmonics and Spurious Emissions - Frequency response and waveform compliance - Partner with systems, hardware, and test engineering teams to ensure complete requirements verification and traceability.
- Support environmental qualification, thermal characterization, vibration testing, and long-term reliability validation for high-performance communications products.

Embedded

Systems & Firmware Integration - Collaborate with embedded software and firmware teams responsible for configuring, controlling, and monitoring RF hardware.

- Review and support embedded interfaces including SPI, I²C, UART, GPIO, and other hardware communication protocols.
- Support board bring-up, hardware calibration, compensation algorithms, telemetry, diagnostics, and health monitoring functions.
- Ensure embedded control software supports both manufacturing test environments and deployed field operations.

Product

Lifecycle & Sustaining Engineering - Provide technical leadership throughout the entire product lifecycle, from concept development through production and sustaining engineering.

- Investigate customer issues, manufacturing defects, and field failures, implementing corrective and preventive actions where required.
- Evaluate component obsolescence risks and identify suitable replacement components while maintaining product performance and regulatory compliance.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams including systems engineering, hardware, firmware, software, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and customer support to deliver reliable, high-performance RF products on schedule.

📌 RF Modem Engineer (Ottawa)
🏢 Myticas Consulting
📍 Ottawa