As an RF Design Engineer, you will own the design, testing, and delivery of flight RF hardware systems for space missions anywhere from low Earth orbit to mars. You will also conduct vehicle-level testing, RF integration, and desense evaluations.
Responsibilities
- Design and bring up RF transmit and receive systems supporting operation from S-Band to Ka-Band
- Develop RF hardware components including amplifiers, mixers, splitters, filters, shielded enclosures, and antenna hats.
- Evaluate and design for mitigation of desense, EMI, EMC, and co-existence issues.
- Work with a cross-disciplinary team to define and implement RF hardware requirements on a mission-by-mission basis, design RF PCBs, bring up and troubleshoot RF systems, and integrate systems to spacecraft
- Derive RF hardware design requirements from system-level specifications
- Improve existing RF products throughout their lifecycle by troubleshooting issues, performing failure analysis of parts and systems, and implementing improvements
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical field
- 2+ years experience designing RF components or PCBs above 18GHz
- Strong RF PCB design and debugging skills
- Demonstrated ability to work in the lab with RF equipment including spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, signal generators, and software defined radios
- Strong understanding of the blocks of RF front ends
- Experience with link budget and lineup calculations
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Demonstrated ability to design and integrate RF components including LNAs, filters, PAs, mixers, etc.
- Familiarity with an electromagnetic simulation software such as HFSS, CST, ADS, or Genesys
- Demonstrated design and test experience on launch vehicles, satellites, or another spacecraft
- Experience characterizing system desense and coexistence
- Experience with common RF protocols like SRS4, DVBS-II, and CCSDS
- Experience in a startup or agile development environment
Additional Information:
Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
