Principal RF Engineer

What you'll do

• Drive program-level decisions on RF system designs.
• Research novel solutions for unique large-scale satellite RF systems.
• Design and validate RF systems in coordination with hardware, FPGA, DSP, and software teams.
• Provide full life cycle support for RF hardware, including PCBA board testing and defect detection.
• Resolve on-orbit vehicle anomalies for flight hardware.
• Create electromagnetic simulation models for antennas, filters, and PCB layouts to evaluate performance.
• Modify electrical schematics and mechanical drawings to improve reliability and manufacturability.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering or electrical engineering.
• 8+ years of experience in RF engineering.
• Experience with modeling and analysis software such as HFSS, CST, ADS, MATLAB, C/C++, and/or Python.
• Experience with RF test equipment such as VNA and spectrum analyzers.
• Experience creating and maintaining link budgets for communications or remote sensing systems.
• Master’s degree in electrical engineering with emphasis in microwave/RF engineering (preferred).
• Experience modeling RF and channel impairments such as multipath, phase noise, group delay, fading, and nonlinear distortion (preferred).
• Experience designing RF systems including radio astronomy, SIGINT, ELINT, radar, or wireless communications (preferred).
• Experience with software-defined radios and frameworks such as GNU Radio (preferred).
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret SCI clearance (preferred).
• Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee eligible for Department of State authorization.