R&D Partners is a national Life Science staffing firm focused in the areas of Scientific, Clinical Research and Engineering. Our team offers well over 200 years of combined Life Science staffing experience providing consulting, direct hire & outsourcing solutions to the Life Science industry with offices in San Francisco, Redwood City and San Diego, California; Tampa, Florida; and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Responsibilities 
• Perform RF, microwave and antenna characterization for the company's hardware devices 
• Design and build RF and Microwave characterization fixtures e.g. de-embedding structures for feed lines to small devices 
• Develop custom phantoms emulating biological tissue effects impactful to devices 
• Perform antenna gain measurements using anechoic chamber 
• Work with product and UX teams design environment emulating for use cases of interest to evaluate antenna performance 
• Wireless systems characterization and interpretation e.g. measuring and analyzing BER vs data rate, constellation diagrams. 
• Design of experiments for and execution of electromagnetic-thermal characterization 
 
Top 3 daily responsibilities 
• Antenna (e.g. wearable BLE) and wireless power link characterization often using anechoic chamber
• Designing and prototyping de-embedding structures for characterization of electrically small antennas and wireless power links 
• Designing characterization environments for wearable antennas e.g. sourcing or creating tissue phantoms, modeling obstacles and multipath based on input from user experience group 

Must Have:
• BS in Electrical Engineering required, MS preferred. 
• BS and 5+ years of relevant experience or MS and 2+ years of relevant experience 
• Expertise and proficiency in using vector network analysers, spectrum analyzers and anechoic chambers 
• Strong understanding of transmission line theory and practice, good experience in prototyping especially in feeds to small radiators 
• Strong understanding of EM radiation fundamentals, performance characteristics of common antenna types and experience in antenna characterization 
 
Nice to Have:
• Experience with wireless systems characterization i.e. end-to-end data e.g. measuring and analyzing BER vs data rate, constellation diagram

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