# RF Hardware Engineer (Early Career)

**Company:** [Northwood Space](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/northwood-space)
**Location:** Los Angeles, CA, California
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $120k – $170k/yr
**Experience:** 0+ years
**Skills:** Rf Design, Electromagnetic Simulation, Lna, Power Amplifiers, Filters, Pcb Layout, I2C, Spi, Python, Impedance Matching, Noise Figure, Evm
**Posted:** 2026-03-04

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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