RF Hardware Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and development of radiofrequency and microwave hardware from UHF 200 MHz through Ka band 30 GHz, including phased array antennas, low noise amplifiers, power amplifiers, filters, RF mixers, up and downconverters, high speed data converters, and other RF electronics components
• Create printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) for spacecraft including architecture, schematic capture, component selection, layout, bring up and debugging
• Qualify designs through environmental testing including vibration, shock, thermal, and thermal vacuum (TVAC) testing
• Collaborate closely with internal and external stakeholders to integrate your designs into the spacecraft system

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering or related science, technology, engineering, or mathematics field
• 1+ years of experience in microwave and RF engineering
• Experience designing multilayer PCBAs and integrating commercial off-the-shelf integrated circuits for RF applications in Altium or similar PCB design tools
• Experience with RF circuit modeling and analysis software tools such as Cadence AWR Microwave Office and Keysight ADS
• Experience with RF test equipment such as vector network analyzers (VNA), spectrum analyzer, etc.

Skills

• Ability to work in a fast-paced and high velocity start-up atmosphere

Nice to Have

• Experience with component selection for use in space radiation environments and flying hardware in space
• Experience with antenna and electromagnetic modeling and analysis software tools such as Ansys Electronics Desktop HFSS and Altair FEKO
• Experience with FPGA design, implementation, verification, and validation for RF applications
• Experience with software defined radio hardware development including high speed RF data converters (digital to analog and analog to digital converters), clock trees, and data converter interfaces
• Experience with phased arrays and digital beamforming
• Knowledge of RF digital communications and digital signal processing (DSP) concepts such as spread spectrum, forward error correction, and modulation types such as BPSK, QAM, etc.

Pay

Base salary range for this role is $115,000 - $200,000 + equity in the company. Salary will be based on several factors including, but not limited to: knowledge and skills, education, and experience level.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, paid parental leave, and many other perks