Optiver
Financial Markets
RFSystemEngineer
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“RF System Engineer at Optiver. Skills: RF System Design, Hardware Engineering, Python, Debugging. Design RF hardware. Realize RF hardware”
What You'll Achieve.
deploy RF systems successfully at scale
Industry & Context.
solve business problems; isolate RF issues
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
3+ years of industry experience, Hands-on experience designing and debugging RF hardware and systems, Experience with HF design, including front ends, filtering, matching and amplifier characterization, understanding of receive-chain performance, including gain, noise figure, linearity, stability and isolation, Experience isolating issues in transmit and receive chains, including non-linear distortion and coupling mechanisms, Experience with EMI debugging and familiarity with EMC compliance and mitigation, Experience with PCBA design and board-level system integration, Comfortable using RF lab equipment, writing basic Python for bring-up, automation or analysis, Working knowledge of safety and regulatory requirements relevant to deploying RF systems, EMIC, and safe operation of high-power RF equipment
Nice to Have
Master or Ph. D. preferred, Microwave design experience, Familiarity with antenna fundamentals, Ham radio license, Experience with RF simulation tools such as ADS, AWR, HFSS or CST, Familiarity with Spice simulation, Experience working with external vendors, labs or manufacturing partners, Experience supporting compliance workflows, including pre-compliance testing, documentation, and coordination with external test labs or certification bodies, FPGA or microcontroller programming experience
What You'll Do.
Develop HF front ends
Characterize RF system performance
Debug RF system performance
Drive system validation
Work with software teams
Work with infrastructure teams
Work with network teams
Own designs from concept to production
Understand regulatory requirements
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with software, infrastructure, and network teams; Work in a multidisciplinary team
Full Job Description
Our Software Engineers build proprietary trading systems which directly impact the financial markets. Our software engineering teams leverage technology to solve a variety of difficult problems. Our trading strategies must respond to market events in microseconds or less, and we automatically price large, diverse sets of financial instruments with extremely low error tolerance. We continually refine, store, and analyze terabytes of data produced by market activity and our trading systems. Our user interfaces must present coherent, responsive real-time visualizations of market activity and system performance while providing intuitive control of a highly complex system. Our core systems must provide a stable, performant, and trusted foundation on which our systems are built. Technology at Optiver: At Optiver we pride ourselves on being real engineers, not just coders. Our engineers work closely with traders to identify the business problems we face and determine how they should be solved. We apply a disciplined and scientific approach. We engineer simple, well-architected solutions that meet the dynamic needs of our traders. Our passion is to solve problems which really matter to the business, and we take pride in the quality of our solutions. What you’ll do: Design, realize, test and bring up custom RF hardware and subsystems, including PCBAs. Develop HF receive and transmit front ends, including LNAs, filters, matching networks and amplifier integration. Characterize and debug RF system performance end-to-end. Create test plans and drive system level validation. Work with software, infrastructure, and network teams to ensure RF systems are deployed successfully at scale. Work in a multidisciplinary team and own your designs from concept to production. Understand regulatory requirements What you’ll get: Direct hands-on involvement in building unique, high-performance hardware systems which deliver meaningful impact to our business A collaborative team environment whe
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