Senior RF Engineer II
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We are looking to add aSenior RF Hardware Engineerto our team. If you are great at what you do enjoy working in a startup environment and are passionate about developing leading-edgeelectronicsfor satellites spacecraft and aerospace systems we would like to hear from you.
At the Senior II level you will be tasked with full-stack hardware development for complex modules and small systems. You will have the opportunity tostart at concept development and progress through detailed design analysis layout build testand delivery doing hands-on work at each Senior II level alsointroduces technical leadership opportunitiesgaining responsibility for small teams of hardware engineers developing new products and systems.
At a small company and a startup your work will make direct contributions to the success of work is challenging and impactful requiring both breadth and depth of productsaremadeforhigh-reliabilityspace and airborne applications sodesigns requirehigh levelsoftechnicalrigor whilemaintainingthe agility of a startup environment.
The successful candidate will also present engineering design review materials to our customers and executive such excellent written and verbal communication skills arerequired.
- Design and develop RF mixed-signal and digital hardware for electronically steered antenna (AESA) communication systems.
- Support the adaptation of existing hardware designs for new customer platforms operational environments and regional requirements.
- Develop RF front-end power distribution control and interface circuitry for phased-array communication terminals.
- Own the development of hardware modules and subsystems from requirements through schematic capture layout integration verification and production release.
- Develop hardware requirements perform trade studies and support subsystem architecture development.
- Perform detailed schematic design for complex RF mixed-signal and high-speed digital circuit boards.
- Support PCB layout activities in Altium Designer including stack-up definition component placement routing reviews and design-for-manufacturing considerations.
- Perform engineering analyses including worst-case circuit analysis signal integrity power integrity thermal and reliability assessments.
- Develop and execute hardware bring-up integration debugging and design verification activities.
- Support RF characterization system integration troubleshooting and root-cause investigations using laboratory test equipment.
- Define and execute environmental qualification and compliance testing activities including EMI/EMC verification.
- Collaborate closely with all the relevant engineering teams throughout the product lifecycle.
- Support technical design reviews engineering documentation requirements traceability and customer-facing technical activities.
- Contribute to product qualification certification manufacturing transfer and production support activities.
- Provide technical support for field trials demonstrations customer evaluations and deployment activities.
- Mentor junior engineers and technicians while promoting engineering best practices and technical rigor.
- Apply knowledge of adjacent disciplines including software systems RF and mechanical engineering to support efficient product development and integration.
- Bachelor of Science (BS) degree or higher in Electrical Engineering from an accredited university.
- Minimum of 6 years of relevant experience in board-level electronics design analysis and test.
- Direct experience designing high-reliability electronics for space or defense applications including part derating worst-case analysis and thermal constraints.
- Experience owning the design phase of complex board-level electronics including trade studies key part selection and detailed design.
- Experience delivering hardware designs through production and deployment.
- Expertise in PCB layout including high-density interconnect (HDI) stackup design and high-speed routing.
- Experience running board-level signal integrity and/or power integrity simulation tools such as Ansys SIwave ADS SIPro or Mentor Hyperlynx.
- Strong working knowledge of adjacent fields such as software and mechanical that guides hardware design and system design
- Expert-level proficiency in electronics design tools such as Altium.
- Extensive lab experience for bring-up and verification of new hardware.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
- Experience leading small teams of hardware engineers to develop multi-module assemblies including hardware architecture requirements make/buy decisions and interconnects.
- Design for space radiation environments
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About Company
CesiumAstro builds high-throughput, software-defined phased array communication payloads for airborne and in-orbit platforms.
