K2 Space RF Hardware Engineer responsible for designing and developing RF and microwave electronics for high-power satellites. Lead design, testing, and integration of RF electronics including phased array antennas and amplifiers.
Responsibilities
Design and development of radiofrequency and microwave hardware from UHF 200 MHz through Ka band 30 GHz, including phased array antennas, low noise amplifiers, power amplifiers, filters, RF mixers, up and downconverters, high speed data converters, and other RF electronics components
Design printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) for spacecraft including architecture, schematic capture, component selection, layout, bring up and debugging
Qualify your designs through environmental testing including vibration, shock, thermal, and thermal vacuum (TVAC) testing
Collaborate closely with internal and external stakeholders to integrate your designs into the spacecraft system
Act as technical leader and subject-matter expert helping to teach, grow, and mentor others in the team
Qualification
Bachelor’s degree in computer scienceExperience with FPGA design
Required
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering or related science, technology, engineering, or mathematics field
5+ years of experience in microwave and RF engineering
Experience designing multilayer PCBAs and integrating commercial off-the-shelf integrated circuits for RF applications in Altium or similar PCB design tools
Experience with RF circuit modeling and analysis software tools such as Cadence AWR Microwave Office and Keysight ADS
Experience with RF test equipment such as vector network analyzers (VNA), spectrum analyzer, etc.
Ability to work in a fast-paced and high velocity start-up atmosphere
Preferred
Experience with component selection for use in space radiation environments and flying hardware in space
Experience with antenna and electromagnetic modeling and analysis software tools such as Ansys Electronics Desktop HFSS and Altair FEKO
Experience with FPGA design, implementation, verification, and validation for RF applications
Experience with software defined radio hardware development including high speed RF data converters (digital to analog and analog to digital converters), clock trees, and data converter interfaces
Experience with phased arrays and digital beamforming
Experience with signal intelligence (SIGINT), electronic warfare (EW), and/or satellite telecommunications
Knowledge of RF digital communications and digital signal processing (DSP) concepts such as spread spectrum, forward error correction, and modulation types such as BPSK, QAM, etc
