We are seeking a Senior RF Hardware Engineer to design, develop, and test L-band RF and IF hardware for next generation satellite modems across the full product lifecycle. This role focuses on RF schematic and PCB design, component selection, signal integrity, and hands on board bring up and lab testing using RF instrumentation. The engineer will collaborate closely with RF, digital, firmware, and systems teams to deliver high performance SATCOM hardware in an onsite lab environment.
This is a permanent Monday-Friday onsite position, pay starting at $120K. The ideal candidate has strong hands-on experience designing L-band RF and IF hardware for satellite or wireless systems.
Additional Responsibilities:
Design, develop, document hardware designs for satellite modems and related products including:
L-band intermediate frequency design integrated on PCBs
Schematics design and layout
Component selection
System bring-up performance testing and optimization
High-speed PCB trace signal integrity simulation and analysis
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Bachelors or Masters in Electrical Engineering or related degree
5+ years of relative experience
Experience with noise figure, phase noise and harmonics design/testing/simulation
Experience with amplifiers, switches, local oscillators, filters, impedance matching, ADC, DAC interfaces, RF modulation and demodulation