System Engineer Antenna (m/w/d) - Product Line Detect

Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

Would you like to shape the future of intelligent mobility together with us? Become part of our VALEO team and revolutionize the experience of autonomous and connected driving.

We are looking for YOU as System Engineer Antenna (m/w/d) - Product Line Detect for our location in Bietigheim.

These challenges await you: 

• Antenna Architecture Design: Lead the design and development of innovative antenna arrays for 79GHz radar sensors, specifically optimized for Ultra-Short-Range (USR) applications requiring wide Field-of-View (FoV).

• MIMO Strategy: Define and optimize MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) configurations and virtual array patterns to achieve superior angular resolution and minimize sidelobes/ambiguities.

• Electromagnetic Simulation: Perform high-fidelity EM simulations using tools like CST Microwave Studio or Ansys HFSS to optimize gain, bandwidth, and mutual coupling at mmWave frequencies (77–81 GHz).

• Material & Stack-up Selection: Define requirements for high-frequency PCB materials and stack-ups, ensuring minimal insertion loss and stable performance across automotive temperature ranges.

• Integration & Radome Analysis: Analyze and optimize the interaction between the antenna array and the sensor housing (radome/fascia) to mitigate reflections and boresight errors.

• Measurement & Validation: Lead antenna characterization in anechoic chambers, performing 3D radiation pattern measurements, gain verification, and phase center analysis.

• Manufacturing Feasibility: Collaborate with PCB suppliers and production teams to ensure antenna designs are compatible with high-volume automotive manufacturing tolerances.

You inspire us with that:

• Education: Master’s degree or PhD in Electromagnetics, RF Engineering, or Microwave Engineering.

• mmWave Expertise: Deep technical knowledge of antenna design at 77–81 GHz, including patch arrays, feed networks, and transition designs (e.g., SIW or microstrip).

• MIMO Theory: Strong command of MIMO radar principles, including virtual array synthesis, orthogonal waveform impact on antenna design, and spatial multiplexing.

• Simulation Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in 3D EM simulation software (CST, HFSS, or FEKO).

• Hardware Characterization: Hands-on experience with VNA (Vector Network Analyzers) and antenna measurement systems in the mmWave frequency range.

Why Valeo:

At VALEO, we firmly believe that great technologies are born out of passion.

• 💶 Compensation package. Performance-related salary components and company pension scheme (allowance).

• 💹 Career development. Scope to develop your own ideas as well as professional and personal development opportunities worldwide.

• 💚 Benefits. Allowances for sports, health, pension scheme, canteen, JobRad,  free employee parking spaces, regular employee events and social support for a family-friendly environment.

• 🌎 Flexibility. Working models that harmonize your professional and private life.

• 🍀Work environment. Flat hierarchies and modern working methods provide you with an innovative working environment.

• 🚙 The future. We work together on the mobility trends of tomorrow.

Good to know:

• Your contact person: Julia Mittelmaier / Julia.Mittelmaier@Valeo.com

• We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds as well as from people with disabilities.

• For data protection reasons, please submit your application documents exclusively online via the job portal on our website

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Job:

Engineering Disciplines

Organization:

Project System Software

Schedule:

Full time

Employee Status:

Regular

Job Type:

Permanent contract

Job Posting Date:

2026-04-13

Join Us !
Being part of our team, you will join:
- one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development
- a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
- more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
- a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development

More information on Valeo: https://www.valeo.com