Job Opening: RF Aligner

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RF Alignment Specialist – 2nd Shift

El Cajon, CA

Build Your Future: Solid Pay. Strong Team. Where Your Success Matters. No need to spend your time searching for “manufacturing jobs hiring near me” because ResourceMFG is NOW HIRING RF Technician in your area. Benefit from competitive weekly pay, solid benefits, and the chance to level up your skills. 

We Require Our Customers to Offer:

• Safe and clean work environment
• Employee focused workplace
• Safety programs and training

Role Summary

Precisely align, tune, and calibrate RF/microwave circuits, filters, oscillators, and integrated modules to meet performance targets (gain flatness, noise figure, phase noise, VSWR, insertion/return loss). Collaborate with Engineering to optimize procedures and improve yield.

Key Responsibilities

• Precision Alignment & Tuning: Perform detailed alignment of RF chains and subassemblies using VNAs, spectrum analyzers, and power meters; adjust trimmers, bias points, and couplers to bring units into spec.
• Calibration & Verification: Calibrate fixtures and verify measurement uncertainty; run S-parameter sweeps and limit tests; document calibration status.
• Performance Optimization: Optimize parameters such as gain, P1dB, noise figure, phase noise, and return loss across temperature/lot variance as required by the traveler.
• Failure Analysis Support: When a unit cannot be brought into spec, capture data, identify likely fault domains, and partner with RF Technicians/Engineering for root cause and rework plans.
• Procedure Development: Provide feedback to refine alignment procedures, fixtures, and golden-unit references; maintain configuration control of align-steps.
• Documentation & Traceability: Record all adjustments, test plots, and as-found/as-left data in the traveler/ME route; ensure audit-ready records.

Core Qualifications

• Education/Experience: 2–7 years aligning/tuning RF/microwave products (defense/aerospace preferred).
• Technical Skills: Deep fluency with vector network analyzers (S-parameters), spectrum analyzers (phase noise, spurs), fixture calibration (SOLT/TRL), and RF troubleshooting fundamentals.
• Standards/Quality: Comfortable operating under formal test procedures and strict documentation/quality systems (e.g., AS9100).
• Dexterity/Detail: Excellent fine-motor work for component adjustments; ability to hold tight tolerances and repeat results across builds.