The Senior Antenna Design Engineer is responsible for designing, simulating, testing and documenting the best solutions possible for antennas in high volume manufactured cell phones.
The antennas to be designed can include multi-band 700/750/850/900/1800/1900/2100/2600 MHz (some combination of these bands and other bands) cellular (GSM/UMTS/LTE/CDMA) internal antennas, multi-band cellular MIMO and RX diversity antennas, GPS/Glonass antennas, WLAN 2.4 and 5 GHz antennas, BLUETOOTH antennas and NFC antennas.
The designs are described in terms of suitable SAR, HAC RF emissions, TRP, TIS, envelope correlation coefficient, radiation pattern, return loss, antenna efficiency in actual usage conditions, and isolation between antennas. Performing trade-off studies is required between antenna performance, RF performance, mechanical constraints, and marketing requirements.
Typical constraints are small size of the phone, low costs and specific form factors. All the work needs to be done with seamless teamwork.
Some other stakeholders are mechanical engineering, PWB design, RF design, the antenna manufacturer, the field test crew, product marketing, and management of the project.
The Senior Antenna Design Engineer is also responsible for leading the antenna design for projects, managing the antenna design process for a project including schedules, providing antenna recommendations to the project, and advising the more junior members of antenna group.
In general, the senior antenna design engineer must have competence in the design of antennas for most of the protocols and parameters listed above.
Needed for increased antenna design needed for Sprint variants.
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