RF System Design Engineer

Were Hiring: RF System Design Engineer

Full-Time Core Team

LAT Aerospace Defence

LAT Aerospace is developing next-generation aerospace systems from first principles. This includes a hybrid electric aircraft that takes off and lands within a space of a parking lot Defence systems built from ground up and scalable Gas Turbine Engines.

Under the Defence program - were building next-generation RF sensing - persistent all-weather detection and tracking fielded in months not years. The challenge belongs to the RF chain: getting clean wide-dynamic-range signal off the array so small slow targets can be pulled out of clutter on deployable hardware. Youll own the chain from antenna to digitized samples prototyping on SDRs so an idea goes from model to over-the-air in days. Because our architecture is software-defined every improvement you make ships as capability.

What youll do

• Own the end-to-end RF architecture: frequency planning link/power budgets cascade dynamic range and spurious analysis

• Design the waveform and receive chain - chirp synthesis LO generation receiver lineup - driving phase-noise linearity and isolation to component level

• Architect a software-defined approach: reconfigurable waveforms sampling-friendly front-ends clean RF-digital partitioning

• Design and bring up T/R modules RF front-ends and antennas at element and array level - sidelobe control pattern measurement

• Define and execute multi-channel amplitude/phase calibration from factory alignment to field

• Simulate fabricate measure correlate iterate - validate against hardware relentlessly

• Plan and run lab and field test campaigns through live target-tracking trials

• Harden for thermal vibration EMI/EMC and document to production-grade standards

What were looking for

• Hands-on RF system design in radar/defence electronics - firm requirement; telecom/5G-only will not qualify

• At least one complete RF system taken from architecture through hardware to field testing

• FMCW chain phased-array/AESA design and software-defined radar concepts

• Antenna design at element and array level; microwave design at X Ku or Ka band

• RF architecture analysis: link budget cascade frequency planning spur charts phase-noise budgeting

• EM simulation (HFSS CST FEKO AWR) and circuit/system simulation (ADS Microwave Office SystemVue)

• Hands-on RF lab: VNA spectrum analyzer signal generators phase-noise power meters

• Scripting for analysis and automation: MATLAB or Python

• Eager to learn - treats I havent done this before as a starting point not a boundary

Why LAT

• Core team opportunity at a high-conviction deep-tech startup

• Real hardware real field tests real impact

• Build sovereign defence technology from the ground up in India

Required Experience:

IC