Job Description

As a Sr. RF Systems Engineer, you will be a leader of our satellite vehicle comms system. You’ll own the end to end hardware allowing our satellite to make contact with the ground, including the up and down link radios, amplifiers, passives, and antennas.

Responsibilities

• Avionics subject matter expert for satellite bus comms network. You’ll be responsible for the architecture and hardware ownership
• Responsible engineer for the satellite radio. Scope, design, and own the component through the full product lifecycle. Innovate fault tolerance and bring your spin on reliability for our application.
• Actively collaborate with flight software and other subsystem subject matter experts on overall system needs and constraints.
• Ultimate ownership of product acceptance and qualification testing for space environments (Thermal, Vibe, Shock, TVAC, and EMI) with support from the Avionics Test team.
• Collaborate with mechanical designers on packaging and integration for hardware – design for easy assembly, environments robustness, and repeatability.
• Provide direction on system-level validation tests and integration test plans to verify the vehicle is ready for flight.
• Perform root cause analysis on test failures and implement holistic mitigation strategies for flight risks.
• Mentor junior engineers on their projects, challenges, and design methodologies setting a high bar for the future leaders.

Basic Qualifications

• B.S. in Electrical or Computer Engineer or related field with 6+ years of direct experience in electronics hardware development.
• Demonstrated experience contributing to vehicle avionics architectures and bringing them to flight.
• Strong hands-on experience with VNAs, oscilloscopes, function generators, benchtop digital multimeters, and power supplies.
• Proven experience developing electrical circuit boards and delivering a working product.
• Knowledge of signal integrity, power, grounding, and general board layout principles.
• Experience programming in Python, MATLAB, or another scripting/data analysis language.
• Deep understanding of state-of-the-art communication protocols, their standards, and a demonstrated ability to implement across a vehicle architecture

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