RF/Electrical Engineer

Core Responsibilities

• Support design of spacecraft payload hardware, including single-board computers, SDRs, FPGAs, SoCs, processors, LNAs, filters, amplifiers, etc., and software design and development.
• Support selection and design of nanosatellite antenna technologies.
• Develop link budget analyses, simulations, traffic/capacity analysis, RF system design and dimensioning, coverage and frequency planning, etc.
• Support spacecraft payload integration, testing, delivery to launch and spacecraft bus partners/vendors.
• Designing and planning payload testing configurations on the ground when testing payload communications performance both in-lab and in-orbit.
• Interface with Systems Engineering team to inform constellation/network architecture and design based on RF communications payload performance.
• Bench level mechatronics work including testing, integration, assembly, programming and prototyping of electronics hardware and software.
• Sometime software-based Systems Engineering analysis.
• Supporting developing and maintaining technical documentation for payload design and development.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree or better in RF or Electrical Engineering.
• Experience working on projects developing space payload hardware and software, preferably communications systems.
• Hands-on experience with software-defined radios, antennas, FPGAs, GPUs, CPUs, SoCs, single-board computers, microcontrollers is highly desired.
• Programming Proficiency in one or more programming languages is highly desired, such as, C++, C, Python, MATLAB, etc.
• Should have experience working with Linux based systems.
• Familiarity with VHDL or Verilog and Altera or Xilinx FPGAs is desired.
• Proficiency with electrical design software, such as Altium is a plus.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of RF air interfaces and their use of multiple access schemes such as TDMA, FDMA, OFDMA, CDMA, etc. is highly desired.
• Hands-on experience with integrating hardware and software systems is desired.
• Must be good with computers. Fluent in Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX, very capable with Microsoft Office... Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Word.
• Knowledge of some communications/networking protocols, for instance, IP, TCP/IP, SNMP, SDH/SONET, Ethernet, Carrier Grade Ethernet, DSL, SS7, ISDN, Q2931, B-ISDN, X.25, 802.11, 802.16, SIP, TDMA, FDMA, CDMA, LTE, EDGE, GPRS, HSPA, GSM, etc.