RF Systems Test Engineer

Core Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and document test and integration procedures for flight and lab RF hardware, particularly RF Front Ends, and Mixed-Signal Digital Electronics.
• Design, develop, specify, and maintain hardware and software for Electronic Ground Support Equipment aka EGSE to be used to support satellite RF digital phased array payload verification, particularly before, during, and after functional and environmental testing.
• Bench-level work with electronics to debug and troubleshoot issues that arise during testing, including functional and environmental testing.
• Working alongside engineers and technicians, Inform the design, development, and optimization of the company’s operational testing procedures and policies for our Production and research and development campaign for our space technology.
• Huge focus on automation for testing and data collection tools to ensure testing can be done reliably, repeatedly, and at scale in production.

Basic Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree or better in Electrical Engineering, RF Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, or similar degrees.
• 5+ years of experience as an RF Engineer focused on system design and/or test.
• Experience with standard RF lab equipment is required: Oscilloscopes, Spectrum and Vector Network Analyzer, Multimeter, etc.
• Hands-on experience with RFFE printed circuit boards, single-board computers, microcontrollers, FPGAs, GPUs, CPUs, SoCs, software-defined radios, and/or antennas.
• Ability to read and understand datasheets for integrated circuits and electronics.
• Experience using Linux based systems and programming proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as Rust, C++, C, Python, MATLAB, etc.
• Must have good communication skills and be able to work independently as well as in a team environment.

Preferred Qualifications, Testing Experience

• In Areas Such As EMI testing RE 102, RS103.
• Vibration Testing, Experience with GEVs.
• Familiarity with ethernet, serial and or CAN communication protocols.
• Recent participation in projects developing space payload hardware and software, preferably communications systems.
• Experience working with and testing Digitally or electronically steered Phased Array Antenna systems.
• Experience working with GSM/LTE/NR communications and cellular backhaul networks.