# Senior RF Hardware Engineer

**Company:** [Northwood Space](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/northwood-space)
**Location:** Los Angeles, CA, California
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $160k – $245k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** rf design, electromagnetic simulation, power amplifiers, low-noise amplifiers, rf filters, antennas, pcb layout, Python, i2c, spi, point-of-load converters, noise figure, impedance matching, evm, imd
**Posted:** 2026-08-05

> 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.

## 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 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.

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