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Northwood SpaceNorthwood SpaceLos Angeles, CA

Senior RF Hardware Engineer

Designs and characterizes RF electronics for phased-array ground station products, collaborating across electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, and software disciplines from concept through production. Requires a bachelor's degree, 5+ years of RF design experience, and eligibility for a Top Secret clearance.

160k – 245k/yr
On-site5+ YOEHardware Engineering

About the role

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 amplifiers, filters, and PCB layouts to design and evaluate performance.
  • Build RF circuits, including LNAs, filters, and power amplifiers, along with supporting power and digital-control circuitry; characterize their performance.
  • Collaborate with hardware and software engineers to characterize and troubleshoot integrated RF system performance.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related engineering discipline.
  • 5+ years of RF design experience across circuits, filters, or antennas.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.
  • Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
  • Must meet applicable U.S. government space technology export-control requirements.

Nice-to-Haves

  • RF lineup design, including nonlinearity, noise, output power, and blocker/jammer tolerance.
  • Power amplifier, LNA, and filter design.
  • 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 such as IIP2 and IMD, impedance matching, amplifier stability, and cascaded network analysis.
  • Python or another programming language for data analysis and test automation.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Base salary is determined by role, level, location, market data, skills, education, experience, and technical expertise.
  • Long-term incentives including company stock options and discretionary performance bonuses.
  • Equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
  • Flexible spending accounts, flexible time off, 10 or more paid holidays per year, retirement savings plans, and professional development opportunities.

Skills

rf designelectromagnetic simulationpower amplifierslow-noise amplifiersrf filtersantennaspcb layoutPythoni2cspipoint-of-load convertersnoise figureimpedance matchingevmimd
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