Senior RF Engineer

About the role

We are actively seeking passionate, collaborative, energetic, and forward-thinking individuals to join our team. We are looking to add a Senior RF Engineer to our team. The ideal candidate has experience in board-level RF electronics design. If you enjoy working in a startup environment, and are passionate about developing leading-edge RF hardware for satellites, spacecraft, and aerospace systems, we would like to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for RF circuits and systems through all phases of the development process.
• Proficient in board-level schematic design and PCB layout of RF circuits, and system-level communications concepts such as link budgets and modulation schemes.
• Work will include many aspects of phased array communication systems, including RF front-ends, frequency converters and synthesizers, filters, beamformers, power dividers, and phased array antennas.
• Responsible for RF hardware designs from initial concept through requirements definition, part selection, detailed design, analysis, manufacturing, testing, qualification, and in-orbit support of Cesium's products.
• Hardware design tasks will include block diagrams, detailed schematics, PCB layout and routing, simulations, and test design.
• Present engineering design review materials to our customers and executive team, as well as participate in proposal-writing efforts.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science (BS) or Master of Science (MS) degree in Electrical Engineering (EE) from an accredited university or institution.
• Minimum of 5 years of industry experience in design and analysis of RF electronics design, analysis, test, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with professional simulation tools such as CST and ADS, as well as EDA tools such Altium.
• Hands-on experience with lab instruments such as vector network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, and oscilloscopes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• MATLAB or other programming languages.
• Aerospace electronics design, development, and qualification.
• Worst-case circuit analysis, failure method and criticality analyses, and reliability analysis.
• Antenna design.
• EMI/EMC design and mitigation techniques.

Pay

$133,000 - $161,000 a year

Benefits

• Company stock options.
• Health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability and retirement plans.