Career Opportunities
Founded in 1977, Ritron, Inc. designs, engineers, and manufactures Land Mobile Radio products for a wide variety of markets, industries, and applications. Ritron is a Made In America manufacturer with a go-to-market strategy that includes Resellers, Distributors, OEM, and End Users primarily in North America with additional worldwide accounts. Based in Carmel, IN, Ritron is a privately held company with a diverse and loyal workforce.
Ritron, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Please send resume to: nwilhelm@ritron.com.
Current Openings
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SOFTWARE ENGINEER
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RF DESIGN ENGINEER
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Software Engineer
Education and Experience:
- Intermediate Level - Bachelor Degree and 2-4 years of relevant experience or equivalent.
- Senior Level - Bachelor Degree and 6+ years of relevant experience or equivalent.
Knowledge Required:
- Computers and Electronics - Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. Technology Database management system software.
- English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
Preferred:
- Mathematics - Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
Job Purpose:
- Creates and produces software operating or applications systems.
- Provides analysis related to software design and development, and solves problems.
- Formulates operating system advancements and performs improvements.
- Evaluates impact of hardware on software performance, and recommends changes to hardware designers.
- Senior Level - Creates and produces software operating or applications systems that are more complicated.
- Provides analysis related to software design and development and solves problems.
- Formulates operating systems advancements, and performs improvements.
- Evaluates impact of hardware on software performance, and recommends changes to hardware designers.
- May lead less senior Software Engineers.
Technical Skills
- Equipment Selection - Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
- Programming - Writing computer programs.
- Technology Design - Generate or adapt equipment and technology to serve user needs.
- Troubleshooting - Determine causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
Systems Skills
- Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Systems Analysis - Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Systems Evaluation - ldentjfying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
Resource Management Skills
- Management of Financial Resources - Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
- Management of Material Resources - Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
- Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
Tasks
- Correct errors by making appropriate changes and rechecking the program to ensure that the desired results are produced.
- Conduct trial runs of programs and software applications to be sure they will produce the desired information and that the instructions are correct.
- Compile and write documentation of program development and subsequent revisions, inserting comments in the coded instructions so others can understand the program.
- Write, update, and maintain computer programs or software packages to handle specific jobs such as tracking inventory, storing or retrieving data, or controlling other equipment.
- Consult with managerial, engineering, and technical personnel to clarify program intent, identify problems, and suggest changes.
- Perform or direct revision, repair, or expansion of existing programs to increase operating efficiency or adapt to new requirements.
- Write, analyze, review, programs and user manuals, using workflow chart and diagram, and applying knowledge of computer capabilities, subject matter, and symbolic logic.
- Investigate whether networks, workstations, the central processing unit of the system, or peripheral equipment are responding to a program's instructions and detailed work flow charts and diagrams that describe input, output, and logical operation, and convert them into a series of instructions coded in a computer language.
- Perform systems analysis and programming tasks to maintain and control the use of computer systems software as a systems programmer.
- Consult with and assist computer operators or system analysts to define and resolve problems in running computer programs.
Send resume to: nwilhelm@ritron.com or mail to Ritron Human Resources at 505 W. Carmel Drive, Carmel IN 46032
Ritron, Inc. is a niche manufacturer and leader in the Wireless Communications industry. Ritron, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
RF Design Engineer
Ritron, Inc. a designer and manufacturer of wireless voice and data communications products is looking for an RF Design Engineer to support our growing engineering team in Carmel, Indiana (suburb of Indianapolis).
Summary
Looking for an experienced hands-on individual contributor in the design and development of wireless products, RF circuits and signal processing components for conventional and software defined radio products. Should be experienced with PCBA development and troubleshooting and in resolving product design issues during the entire RF product lifecycle. Reports to the Chief Engineer.
Major Duties
- Design circuits and radio subsystems to meet product specifications and best practices
- Specifies components for BOM, creates detailed circuit schematics and other design documents
- Design for FCC compliance and EMI mitigation and adheres to applicable industry standards
- Provides technical collaboration with other engineers as needed
- Conducts or directs lab testing using oscilloscopes, data analyzers, VSGs, VSAs, and VNAs
- Tracks multiple tasks and projects. Identifies and reports obstacles
- Supports needs of manufacturing, test, and marketing departments throughout product lifecycle
- Supports FCC Certification and compliance working with third party test and certification services
Requirements for the Job
Essential
- Able to design analog and RF circuits from baseband to 1GHz
- Able to design to applicable electrical and environmental standards
- Knowledgeable in Communications theory and modulation systems
- Experience with common RF design elements such as impedance matching networks, tuned circuits, lumped filters, micro strip and strip line circuits and RF power transistor matching networks
- Competence using RF lab testing and troubleshooting techniques and tools including oscilloscopes, VSGs, VSAs, and VNAs
- Time management and organizational skills with an ability to balance multiple priorities
- Excellent English written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to self-manage and adapt to occasional difficult working conditions
- Likes to work in a team environment and tolerates occasional travel
Desirable
- Designs FPGA firmware using VHDL and/or Verilog and writes microcontroller and DSP code using C/C++ and assembly language. Familiarity with digital logic and microcontrollers
- Grasp of networking basics and familiarity with 802.11, GPS, Ethernet
- US, Canadian, and ETSI certification experience and working knowledge of FCC Parts 2, 15 and 90
Minimum Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Master’s preferred.
- Track record in radio (RF) product development and manufacturing
- At least 4 years of experience in RF communications product design
Send resume to: nwilhelm@ritron.com or mail to Ritron Human Resources at 505 W. Carmel Drive, Carmel IN 46032
Ritron, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
