Senior RF Engineer
- San Francisco, CA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- RF/MW hardware transceiver and circuit design up to 30GHz, simulation (Spice, ADS), instrumentation, test and characterization
- RF/MW/Optical Communication system design, link budgets, and interference analysis
- EMI testing and mitigation
- Antenna design, simulation and testing (ADS, HFSS)
- Digital communications theory and associated signal processing algorithms for both narrowband and wideband data transmission systems
- Software Defined Radio (SDR) platforms and respective signal processing libraries (e.g. GNURadio)
- Validation and Verification of radios and antennas pre-shipment and validation of radio performance on orbit after satellite launch
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering
- 6+ years of engineering excellence designing and maturing RF & MW systems, transceivers, antennas and/or SDRs to market, ability to review low-level design decisions and understand their impact to the larger system/mission
- Proficiency in RF/MW, electromagnetics and signal processing
- Experience successfully owning, designing and criticizing RF/MW circuit design, RF/MW layout, component selection and evaluation
- Extensive lab experience with RF/MW and mixed-signal devices and board bring up: characterization and test
- Ability to adapt and learn a multitude of skills in order to develop/contribute to the design of complex systems, such as: active RF circuits, integrated transceivers, PLL synthesizers, mixers, switches, RF amplifiers, oscillators, detectors, filters, A/D and D/A converters, microprocessors and FPGAs for space and ground station applications
- Excellent documentation, presentation and communication skills
- Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering
- Experience with Altium or similar EDA tools, high-density mixed-signal PCB design, high speed clock trees
- Experience with Space and/or Airborne sensing and monitoring systems
- Knowledge of digital communications theory and associated signal processing algorithms for both narrowband and wideband data transmission systems
- Experience in Linux, Python, and data analysis tools
- Ability to work in an agile, dynamic environment.
- Ability to provide solutions to address and unblock dynamic situations
- Understanding of cross-team dependencies including electrical, software, mechanical, thermal, structural, manufacturing and Space environmental
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
- Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off
- 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
- Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Home Office Reimbursement
- Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
- Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
- Equity
- Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
- Volunteering Paid Time Off
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