RF Hardware Engineer (Early Career)
Designs and builds RF electronics hardware including amplifiers, filters, and support circuits for space communications ground networks. Collaborates across disciplines to optimize performance from concept to production; requires bachelor's in electrical engineering and 0-4+ years RF experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design RF electronics hardware for next generation products, and iterate on existing hardware to improve reliability, performance, and manufacturability
- Create electromagnetic simulation models of hardware (amplifiers, filters, PCB layout) to design and evaluate performance
- Build RF circuits (LNA’s, filters, power amplifiers) as well as support circuitry (power, digital control), and characterize their performance
- Collaboration with hardware and software engineers to characterize and troubleshoot integrated RF system performance
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or related engineering discipline
- 0-4+ years of RF design experience, across circuits, filters, or antennas
Preferred Experience and Skills
- RF line-up design, considering non-linearity, noise, output power, and blocker/jammer tolerance
- Power amplifier, LNA, and filter design
- Experience with design and bring-up of point of load converters and common digital interfaces such as I2C/SPI
- Theory and testing related to EVM, Noise Figure, power handling metrics (IIP2, IMD), impedance matching, amplifier stability, and cascaded network analysis
- Use of Python (or other language) for data analysis and test automation
Skills
Rf Design, Electromagnetic Simulation, Lna, Power Amplifiers, Filters, Pcb Layout, I2C, Spi, Python, Impedance Matching, Noise Figure, Evm
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