RF Designer

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, physics, or equivalent. Graduate’s degree is desirable

• 5+ years' experience with RF circuit and/or antenna design

• 5+ years' experience with RF circuit simulation tools (ADS, Microwave Office etc.) and PCB layout tools (Altium, Cadence etc.)

• Proficient in basic RF circuits concepts such as impedance matching, smith chart, network analysis, active and passive microwave components and systems (mixers, amplifiers, transistors at RF frequencies) and their figures of merit (P1dB, Psat, IIP3, noise figure, etc.), RF filter design

• Familiarity with RF radio architectures and components

• Competence with basic electrical PCB design (power distribution, analog circuits, basic sequencing, etc.) 

• Comfortable making RF measurements using standard RF test equipment: spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzers, noise and power measurements

 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Take spacecraft and ground terminal RF Hardware from conception to design, manufacturing, test, and on-orbit operations

• Design and simulate RF subsystems (filters, amplifiers, transitions etc.)

• Perform component selection for frontend circuits

• Perform schematic capture, layout and fabrication support of RF frontend PCBAs and antennas

• Contribute to trade studies and designs of radio systems from a hardware perspective

Bonus Points

•  Experience working closely with PA MMIC’s: matching, tuning, testing etc. is desirable

• Knowledge/familiarity with modulation, DSP, or digital radio concepts is desirable

• Experience with Altium Designer is desirable

• Experience with antenna design in CST or equivalent is desirable

• Familiarity with ADCs/DACs/RFSoC/SDR desirable