About this role
Senior RF & Tactical Communications Engineer DeltaQuad Duivendrecht, Netherlands The role As a Senior RF & Tactical Communications Engineer, you are the technical owner of communication performance across our UAV platforms. You design, integrate and validate resilient command and control, telemetry, video and data-link architectures for airborne, ground, relay and multi-UAV operations. The role covers link engineering, antenna integration, network configuration, interference testing, troubleshooting, flight validation and controlled release. You will work with tactical radios, MIMO and MANET systems, directional and electronically steered antennas - phased-array, SATCOM and IP-based mission systems. What you'll do - Define resilient communication architectures with primary, alternate, contingency and emergency paths; - Translate mission needs into requirements for range, throughput, latency, availability and degraded-link behaviour; - Develop RF link budgets, propagation models, interference assessments and performance margins; - Select and integrate tactical radios, antennas, SATCOM terminals, trackers and IP-based communication systems; - Own antenna placement, polarisation, pattern coverage, diversity, MIMO geometry, isolation and airframe interaction; - Specify RF cables, connectors, filters, switches, amplifiers and protection components; - Optimise frequency, bandwidth, transmit power, modulation, routing, multicast, QoS, beamforming and mesh parameters; - Analyse RSSI, SNR, noise floor, packet loss, latency, throughput, airtime and per-chain performance; - Test interference, coexistence, multipath, blockage, antenna shadowing, jamming and degraded network conditions; - Execute laboratory, range, vehicle and flight tests with traceable acceptance criteria and instrumented data; - Reproduce field failures, isolate RF and network root causes, and define safe workarounds or corrective actions; - Maintain controlled configuration...