RF Engineer, Impulse Space

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical field
• 2+ years of professional experience designing or testing RF components
• Strong RF PCB debugging skills
• Ability to work in the lab with RF equipment including spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, signal generators, and software defined radios
• Proficient in RF test procedure design and implementation
• Strong understanding of the major blocks of RF front ends
• Familiarity with blocks of signal modulation/demodulation and modulation schemes such as BPSK, APSK, GMSK, FSK, etc
• Demonstrate experience with link budget and lineup calculations
• Demonstrated experience characterizing system desense and coexistence

Desirable

• As an RF engineer, your core responsibility will be to own the design, testing, and delivery of flight RF hardware systems for space missions anywhere from low earth orbit to mars
• You’ll also work to conduct vehicle-level testing, RF integration, and desense evaluations
• Department: Avionics
• Reporting to: Jake Messner, Staff RF Engineer
• Design and bring up RF transmit and receive systems supporting operation from UHF to Ka-Band
• Work with a cross-disciplinary team to define and implement RF hardware requirements on a mission-by-mission basis, design RF PCBs, bring up and troubleshoot RF systems, and integrate systems to spacecraft
• Improve existing RF products throughout their lifecycle by troubleshooting issues, performing failure analysis of parts and systems, and implementing improvements
• Support RF performance testing including for radiation, thermal, vibration, and KPIs
• Work with antenna engineers to design compatible systems and work with RF software engineers to design performant RF systems and maintain link budgets
• Work closely with integration and operations teams to conduct integration, checkout procedures, and vehicle-level EMI testing