As a Senior RF Hardware Engineer on the hardware team, you will be responsible for owning the design, manufacture, test, and deployment of highly integrated RF devices used by a surging wave of space customers. You will work with a small team of software, hardware, and FPGA engineers to shepherd the product from initial design to vehicle integration, taking a full-stack approach to building robust space communications systems.
Responsibilities- Develop and own RF products across PCB, box, and integration levels
- Own trades and analyses on new designs and question requirements
- Bring up, troubleshoot, and qualify new designs
- Collaborate with Supply Chain and Manufacturing teams to enable large-scale manufacture of products
Required Skills- Experience designing circuitry in RF bands across frontend and conversion chains
- End-to-end PCB design experience, including schematic capture, layout, fabrication and assembly
- Experience with electronic design and analysis tools such as Keysight ADS, Ansys HFSS, and Altium Designer
- Excellent understanding of RF metrics such as S-parameters, P1dB, noise figure, channel power, and EVM
- Excellent understanding of RF cascades, link budgets, and noise analysis
- Experience with test instruments (oscilloscopes, power supplies, VNAs, spectrum analyzers)
- Experience with low noise amplifiers, power amplifiers, mixers, ADCs/DACs, phased locked loops, oscillators, and filters
Desired Skills- Experience building complex PCBs in Altium Designer
- Experience selecting components for radiation-susceptible environments
- Experience working with AD9361, Xilinx RFSoC, and similar digital-analog conversion interfaces
- Solid experience soldering and reworking boards (0402 SMP components, QFN packages)
- Experience performing communications link modeling and solid understanding of DSP fundamentals
- Knowledge of antenna design, simulation, and measurement in near-field/far-field regimes
- Experience working with high-PAPR signals and knowledge of DPD concepts
Please feel free to apply even if you do not have 100% of the required skills listed
