Senior RF Design Engineer I - Pipeline
$130,000–$170,000 year
On-siteLong Beach, California, United States
Long Beach, California, United StatesOn-siteFull Time$130,000–$170,000 yearSenior LevelAerospaceLarge
Full TimeSenior LevelLargeAerospace
Job Summary
Define and maintain requirements specifications for new RF products including the Frontier-Lite Radio. Design and prototype RF products through component selection, PCB layout, and fabrication while supporting test plans and GSE development. Liaise with Test and Manufacturing Engineers to drive New Product Introduction and provide technical support for anomaly troubleshooting. Review proposals to assess compliance and scope development activities for new requirements. Support engineering reviews such as PDRs, CDRs, and TRRs to ensure alignment with product capabilities.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in electrical engineering, RF communications (or other engineering degree)
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Fundamental RF knowledge including cascaded device analysis, link budget analysis, and HFSS
- Experience in developing and delivering a RF product including assessing requirements, prototyping engineering models, and producing space worthy products
- A solid theoretical and practical understanding of RF communications and navigation systems and components
- U.S. Citizenship
- Ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
Desired Qualifications
- Extensive experience in space grade board design including parts selection and performance simulation
- Extensive experience in circuit analyses including worst case, reliability, FMECA, thermal, and derating analyses
- Extensive experience supporting and leading complex engineering programs and developing associated documentation
- Experience designing, integrating, and testing RF communications systems for launch vehicles or satellites
- Demonstrated expertise in people management
- Experience leading incident management and investigations
- Experience in conflict resolution and dealing with difficult people
- The ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Effective communication skills and the ability to build strong working relationships
- Project management experience
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