Ring is looking for a Senior RF Engineer to join one of the fastest growing home automation device companies. You will help design and build Ring’s RF capabilities in our goal to have the best in class RF in the industry. You will work closely with the engineering teams to choose chipsets as well as optimize mechanical and electrical designs for RF performance. You will also lead and manage external consultants and 3rd parties in the design and testing of new products.

What you’ll do

• Own Ring’s RF performance on our product offering and drive it to be best in class, et
• Build Ring’s RF Testing capabilities including test plans, equipment selection and training and management of RF test engineers
• Manage consultants and third party labs in the design and testing products and antennas
• Characterize and compare different wireless chipsets and drive selection
• Characterize and compare antenna performances and drive selection
• Root causing RF field related issues.
• Work with Electrical Engineers to optimize board layouts for RF
• Work with Mechanical Engineers to optimize design and mechanical structure for RF

Required Skills

• Experience in radio and front end design in 400MHz to 5GHz RF ISM band
• Experience in encoding methods and modulation schemes such as OFDM, Frequency hopping, QAM, GFSK, convolution encoding, STBC
• Familiar with RF emissions requirements and testing for FCC, ETSI, etc.
• Experience debugging RF issues. Setting up, running and evaluation of TIS, TRP, BER, Return Loss, radiation patterns, etc
• Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills with an ability to motivate teams and deliver results
• 8+ years of RF design/testing experience
• BS or MS in RF/Electrical Engineering

Additional Highly Useful Skills

• Familiar with one or more common MAC layer protocols. WiFi, BLE, Zigbee, Z-wave etc and or be willing to learn and build expertize in this area.
• C or python coding experience.

About Ring Ring's mission is to reduce crime in neighborhoods and empower consumers by creating a Ring of Security around homes and communities with its suite of smart home security products: Ring Video Doorbell, Ring Video Doorbell Pro, Ring Stick Up Cam and the new Ring Floodlight Cam. With these security devices, Ring has created the neighborhood watch for the digital age and continues to keep homes around the world safe. For more information, visit www.ring.com. With Ring, you're always home. Ring LLC is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants with our regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Ring LLC. complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.