Staff RF Engineer

About the role

CesiumAstro is actively seeking a passionate, collaborative, energetic, and forward-thinking individual to join our team as a Staff RF Engineer. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in board-level and system-level RF electronics design and enjoys working in a startup environment to develop leading-edge phased arrays for satellites, spacecraft, and aerospace systems.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for RF circuits, modules, and systems through all phases of the development process.
• Proficient in board-level schematic design and PCB layout of RF circuits.
• System-level communications concepts such as link budgets and modulation schemes.
• End-to-end RF product development including RF front ends, frequency converters and synthesizers, filters, beamformers, power dividers, and phased array antennas.
• RF system and hardware designs from initial concept through requirements definition, architecture definition, part selection, detailed design, analysis, manufacturing, testing, qualification, and in-orbit support of Cesium's products.
• Hardware design tasks include block diagrams, detailed schematics, PCB layout and routing, simulations, and test design.
• Serve as technical and professional mentors in their field and may lead company programs.
• Present engineering design review materials to customers and executive team.
• Participate in proposal-writing efforts.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Electrical Engineering (EE) from an accredited university or institution.
• Master of Science (MS) desired.
• Minimum of 8 years of industry experience in design and analysis of RF electronics and systems.

Skills

• Expert-level proficiency in professional simulation tools such as CST and ADS, as well as EDA tools such as Altium.
• Extensive hands-on experience with lab instruments such as vector network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, and oscilloscopes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Preferred: Python or other programming languages.
• Preferred: Aerospace electronics design, development, and qualification.
• Preferred: Worst-case circuit analysis, failure method and criticality analyses, and reliability analysis.
• Preferred: Antenna design.
• Preferred: EMI/EMC design and mitigation techniques.

Pay

$158,000 - $189,000 a year

Benefits

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