RF Systems Engineer

Join us to design and deploy next-generation, satellite-based radar that delivers persistent, all-weather, day-night sensing at global scale. You'll build end-to-end capabilities-from waveform design, on-board processing, classification and calibration-for systems on LEO platforms. Working across RF hardware, phased arrays, and advanced DSP, you'll turn raw echoes into decision-ready products. If you thrive at the intersection of electromagnetics, signal processing, and systems engineering-and want your code and designs to fly-this role is for you. What you'll be doing: • Develop RF requirements and budgets for gain, noise, dynamic range, linearity, phase, timing, spurious response, and interference. • Model and analyze antenna-to-digitizer and transmit/receive signal-chain performance. • Define calibration, monitoring, built-in test, and fault-isolation approaches. • Coordinate with array hardware, FPGA, embedded, signal processing, mechanical, power, thermal, and test teams. • Support component selection, supplier reviews, lab characterization, design reviews, and anomaly resolution. What you bring to this role: • Bachelor's or advanced degree in electrical engineering and 6+ years of RF/microwave system engineering. • Experience with RF budgets, phased arrays, receivers/transmitters, converters, calibration, and laboratory measurements. • Proficiency with RF simulation and test tools. • Ability to translate system performance into component and interface requirements. • Security clearance: U.S. citizenship is required. Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance at the Secret level or higher, and any program-specific access required for the position. Continued employment is contingent upon obtaining and maintaining the required clearance and access. Bonus points for the following: • UHF radar and high-dynamic-range direct-sampling experience. • EMI/EMC, interference mitigation, spectrum certification, or environmental qualification experience. • Experience with large channel-count systems. This is a full time, exempt position, based out of our Saratoga office. The target base pay for this position is $120,000 - $200,000 annually. The total compensation packaged will be determined by various factors such as your relevant job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. We are redefining how satellites are designed, manufactured and used-so we're looking for candidates with passion, deep knowledge and direct experience on LEO satellite component development, design and in-orbit activities. If that's your experience - then we'll be immediately wow-ed. This role requires access to controlled technical data. Under U.S. law (ITAR/EAR), we can only consider U.S. persons (U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, and individuals granted asylum or refugee status). E-Space is not currently able to provide employment sponsorship for candidates who do not hold work authorization for the location of this role.