thinkRF
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

We’re looking for people who want to revolutionize RF monitoring and intelligence.
We’re an ambitious, diverse, closely knit team of RF experts who are driven to redefine how 5G wireless spectrum is monitored and managed. If you’re team focused, willing to work hard to change the game, and are compelled to innovate, we’ll put you in a position to make a difference.
We’re a Wesley Clover International Affiliate, a global investment management firm and holding company of the serial technology entrepreneur Sir Terry Matthews.

Current Opportunities

Benefits and Our Culture

We’re not fans of mediocrity. We ask a lot of our team members, and in return we provide excellent benefits and a healthy work environment.
OUR CALL TO ACTION

More and more, wireless spectrum is fundamental to our society. How do we best ensure this critical resource is always available and properly managed? The current approaches are cumbersome, expensive, and ineffective. We see the world differently. We are developing cutting edge solutions and deploying them with world class partners to deliver disruptive solutions that keep our world humming.  We aren’t interested in “more of the same”, we are all about better. We love challenges and delivering over and above what our customers expect.

WE WANT YOU
HEALTHY

Medical, Dental, Vision. Check off all the boxes, you’re covered.

WE WANT YOU TO FEEL VALUED

You can expect a competitive salary and ownership. Every employee has equity in thinkRF.

WE WANT YOU HERE FOR THE LONG RUN

Staying sharp means taking a step away to recharge. We have a generous paid time off program and flexible hours to balance between life and work.

WE WANT YOU TO GROW
WITH US

You can expect to continuously learn and develop your technical and professional skills. We love a good challenge and we love to innovate, which provides us all with tons of opportunity to grow.

WE WANT YOU TO FEEL SUPPORTED
AND HAVE FUN

We hire people that others like to work with. Our culture is important to us, and part of that includes having fun together.

Current Opportunities

thinkRF is an equal opportunity employer and we encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, origins, ages, orientations, genders, creeds and religions. thinkRF accommodates people with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process, and beyond. If contacted regarding your application to a position, please advise us of any accommodations you may require.

Senior RF Engineers

thinkRF has opportunities for Senior RF Engineers who can provide technical leadership and innovation to support the next stage in our company’s growth. In this role, you would be responsible for the design, simulation, development, and testing of RF circuits and systems for application in wideband radio receivers spanning from DC all the way up to mmWave.

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We’re looking for people who want to revolutionize RF monitoring and intelligence.
We’re an ambitious, diverse, closely knit team of RF experts who are driven to redefine how 5G wireless spectrum is monitored and managed.  If you’re team focused, willing to work hard to change the game, and are compelled to innovate, we’ll put you in a position to make a difference.

Our Call to Action

More and more, wireless spectrum is fundamental to our society. How do we best ensure this critical resource is always available and properly managed? The current approaches are cumbersome, expensive, and ineffective. We see the world differently. We are developing cutting edge solutions and deploying them with world class partners to deliver disruptive solutions that keep our world humming.  We aren’t interested in “more of the same”, we are all about better. We love challenges and delivering over and above what our customers expect.

The Opportunity

thinkRF has opportunities for Senior RF Engineers who can provide technical leadership and innovation to support the next stage in our company’s growth. In this role, you would be responsible for the design, simulation, development, and testing of RF circuits and systems for application in wideband radio receivers spanning from DC all the way up to mmWave.
The position is based in Ottawa, and under current COVID-19 conditions has flexibility to work from home however, there will be times when it is required to work from our office in Kanata.

Responsibilities

You will hold the primary engineering responsibility for electrical design tasks including requirements analysis, specification generation, interface definition, component selection, circuit simulation, symbol creation, schematic capture, and board layout. As the Senior RF Engineer, you will own schedules, cost, and have technical responsibility at the board or subsystem level.

In this role, you will:

  • Design advanced RF Products from VLF to mm-wave, addressing DFM and DFT considerations during the design process
  • Develop test plans, then test and debug RF circuits and systems
  • Produce, review and maintain all associated design and test documentation
  • Estimate RF hardware design tasks, identifying risks, and planning development
  • Conduct design reviews
  • Work with the operations team to introduce new designs into production
  • Work on sustaining issues related to designs

Qualifications

Building on your engineering experience, some of the key qualifications for this role include:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Masters degree preferred with RF circuit engineering
  • 7 – 10 years of broadly based design, modeling and test experience with RF/microwave circuits and systems
  • In depth knowledge of RF circuit design including receiver architectures
  • Proficiency in the use of software design and simulation tools (such as Mentor Graphics, Cadence (NI-AWR), Modelithics), SPICE, Microwave Office and Keysight ADS
  • Experience implementing frequency synthesizers using PLLs
  • The ability to guide and participate in the layout of RF/mm Wave circuits
  • Strong RF circuit testing and debugging skills
  • Experience developing test fixtures for a variety of circuits and devices
  • General familiarity with embedded software development and integration
  • Proficiency in the use of RF/electronic test equipment (such as vector network analyzer, spectrum analyzer, oscilloscope, or logic analyzer)

Assets

  • Good working knowledge of receiver planning for gain, NF, linearity and spurious minimization
  • Experience implementing active circuits at frequencies of > 20GHz
  • Strong filter design and implementation skills using lumped and distributed techniques
  • Work experience with wireless communication systems
  • Working understanding of embedded processor control of RF elements
  • Signal integrity at the PCB level

Personal Attributes

  • Self-starter, capable of taking initiative to identify and resolve problems, and improve work environment
  • Outstanding work ethic and commitment to organizational success
  • Team player who is able to build consensus and work cooperatively
  • Strong communication skills
  • Ability to successfully deliver on committed project deadlines

To join the thinkRF team:

Email your cover letter and resume in confidence to hr@thinkrf.com, specifying the title of the position you are applying for in the subject line of your message. Please be sure to provide some insight into your initiative, skills and achievements, and how you plan to contribute toward the growth of our company.
thinkRF is an equal opportunity employer and we encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, origins, ages, orientations, genders, creeds and religions. thinkRF accommodates people with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process, and beyond. If contacted regarding your application to this position, please advise us of any accommodations you may require.

NPI/Production Technician

thinkRF has an opportunity for an NPI/Production Technician to provide test and troubleshooting for New Product Introduction and production products. This also requires rework of electronic circuit card assemblies (CCAs) and the assembly of integrated electronic subsystems. You will also support our senior engineers in the development and testing of RF assemblies and systems for application inas wideband radio receivers and down converters.

Apply

We’re looking for people who want to revolutionize RF monitoring and intelligence.
We’re an ambitious, diverse, closely knit team of RF experts who are driven to redefine how 5G wireless spectrum is monitored and managed. If you’re team focused, willing to work hard to change the game, and are compelled to innovate, we’ll put you in a position to make a difference.

Our Call to Action

More and more, wireless spectrum is fundamental to our society. How do we best ensure this critical resource is always available and properly managed? The current approaches are cumbersome, expensive, and ineffective. We see the world differently. We are developing cutting edge solutions and deploying them with world class partners to deliver disruptive solutions that keep our world humming.  We aren’t interested in “more of the same”, we are all about better. We love challenges and delivering over and above what our customers expect.

The Opportunity

thinkRF has an opportunity for an NPI/Production Technician to provide test and troubleshooting for New Product Introduction and production products. This also requires rework of electronic circuit card assemblies (CCAs) and the assembly of integrated electronic subsystems. You will also support our senior engineers in the development and testing of RF assemblies and systems for application in wideband radio receivers and down converters.

The position is based in Ottawa, Canada and most work must be conducted from the labs at our headquarters in Kanata, Ontario.

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Calibration and test of RF and digital circuit cards and sub systems for low volume production

  • Troubleshoot/Debugging RF & Digital circuit cards

  • Provide hands-on technical support for RF engineers in verification and testing of RF and wireless products

  • Gather, collate, analyze test data from prototype and production test results

  • Assist RF Engineer to build prototypes and engineering samples as required

  • Provide feedback to Engineering team with all the issues during preproduction and design margin issues seen in production

  • Improvement and documentation of test and trouble-shoot routines

  • Maintenance of test result tracking system

Qualifications

  • Electronics Technologist diploma preferred

  • 5 years of test/troubleshoot experience within a NPI hardware production environment

  • Solid working knowledge of RF circuit and digital design and the ability to participate in the review of schematics

  • Strong circuit testing and debugging skills

  • Experience with test equipment including signal generators, oscilloscope, Network Analyzer, spectrum analyzers and similar test apparatus

  • Experience with mechanical assemblies, interconnect and circuit assembly modification

  • Experience with Windows based PC and associated software (MS Word, Excel)

Assets

  • Experience with test software modification (Programming skills in C++/C, Python)

  • Knowledge of 8D investigation and corrective action methodology

  • Strong PCB component rework skills – soldering of small SMD components (0402/0201 size)

  • Work experience with wireless communication systems

Personal Attributes

  • Resourceful, motivated and interested in improving RF expertise

  • Ability to successfully deliver on committed order commitments to customer and NPI project deadlines

  • Outstanding work ethic and commitment to organizational success

  • Team player who is able to work cooperatively

  • Strong technical and communication skills

  • BS in Electronics Engineering or Technologist in Electronics

  • Minimum 5 years real world experience in functional and system testing of electronic assemblies

  • Excellent testing, problem solving and debugging skills

  • Strong organizational, tasks planning and scheduling skills

Why Work For Us?

At thinkRF, you have the opportunity to work alongside technology thought leaders while directly contributing to the delivery of our world-class technology; this is why skilled, creative and dynamic professionals want to join our team.
thinkRF offers all its employees a competitive total rewards package, commensurate with their qualifications and experience.

To join the thinkRF team:

Email your cover letter and resume in confidence to hr@thinkrf.com, specifying the title of the position you are applying for in the subject line of your message. Please be sure to provide some insight into your initiative, skills and achievements, and how you plan to contribute toward the growth of our company.
thinkRF is an equal opportunity employer and we encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, origins, ages, orientations, genders, creeds and religions. thinkRF accommodates people with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process, and beyond. If contacted regarding your application to this position, please advise us of any accommodations you may require.

Ready to join thinkRF, but don’t see an available job post?

Send us your resume. We are always in the search for highly skilled, creative and dynamic professionals to join our team and contribute to the delivery of our world-class technology!

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