RF Hardware Engineer

Northwood Space
California, Los Angeles
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 120,000 - 170,000 annuallyFunction: Hardware, Embedded & Systems EngineeringEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Collaboration","Teamwork","Problem-solving"]

Hire an RF Hardware Engineer to design and iterate RF electronics for next-gen space-ground products, collaborating with electrical, RF, mechanical, and software teams to deliver reliable, manufacturable hardware. Work includes RF circuit design, electromagnetic modeling, and integration with digital control and power subsystems, with emphasis on performance metrics and cross-disciplinary Troubleshooting from concept to production.

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Northwood Space
Northwood Space
10 months ago

RF Hardware Engineer

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Job Summary

Hire an RF Hardware Engineer to design and iterate RF electronics for next-gen space-ground products, collaborating with electrical, RF, mechanical, and software teams to deliver reliable, manufacturable hardware. Work includes RF circuit design, electromagnetic modeling, and integration with digital control and power subsystems, with emphasis on performance metrics and cross-disciplinary Troubleshooting from concept to production.
Location: California, Los Angeles
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Hardware, Embedded & Systems Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design RF electronics hardware for next generation products, and iterate on existing hardware to improve reliability, performance, and manufacturability
  • •Create electromagnetic simulation models of hardware (amplifiers, filters, PCB layout) to design and evaluate performance
  • •Build RF circuits (LNA’s, filters, power amplifiers) as well as support circuitry (power, digital control), and characterize their performance
  • •Collaboration with hardware and software engineers to characterize and troubleshoot integrated RF system performance
  • •None

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 120,000 - 170,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or related engineering discipline
  • •0-4+ years of RF design experience, across circuits, filters, or antennas
  • •RF line-up design, considering non-linearity, noise, output power, and blocker/jammer tolerance
  • •Power amplifier, LNA, and filter design
  • •Experience with design and bring-up of point of load converters and common digital interfaces such as I2C/SPI
  • •Theory and testing related to EVM, Noise Figure, power handling metrics (IIP2, IMD), impedance matching, amplifier stability, and cascaded network analysis
  • •Use of Python (or other language) for data analysis and test automation
Experience:SpaceAerospaceTelecommunications
Education:Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering
Skills:CollaborationTeamworkProblem-solving
Tech Stack:PythonI2CSPI

Company Brief

Northwood Space
Builds modern, scalable ground infrastructure and phased-array antenna systems to improve satellite-to-Earth communications, providing rapidly deployable ground stations and networking for commercial and government space missions.
Industry: Space Technology
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: Los Angeles, United States
Founded: 2023
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