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SpaceXPosted 1 month ago

Sr. RF/Microwave Engineer (RFIC Engineering)

On-siteRedmond, Washington, United States

Full TimeSenior LevelBachelors DegreeEnterpriseAerospace

Job Summary

Design RF/microwave circuits, MMICs, and SiPs for Starlink satellites, ground infrastructure, and user terminals across cellular to mmWave frequencies. Develop hardware and procure test equipment to characterize and qualify RF components through probing, bench testing, ESD, and HTOL. Derive RF system specifications and collaborate with manufacturing and customer teams on production test and debug. Work long hours and weekends as necessary to support critical milestones.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
  • 5+ years of research and/or industry experience in RF/microwave circuit design
  • Ability to work long hours and weekends as necessary to support critical milestones
  • To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State

Desired Qualifications

  • Master's degree or PhD in an engineering discipline with emphasis in RF/microwave circuits/systems or electromagnetic theory
  • Experience with design of linear and non-linear circuits such as power amplifiers, low noise amplifiers, mixers, filters and PLLs
  • Thorough understanding of RF passive components and EM principles
  • MMIC and/or RFIC design (full cycle) experience
  • Module/SiP design (full cycle) experience
  • RF/microwave design using ADS, HFSS, AWR or similar
  • RF/microwave design in cellular, Ku, Ka, V, E, and/or W-band frequency range
  • Schematic and layout using Altium Designer or other PCB design tools
  • Experience in Matlab, Python, C++ or equivalent tools for modeling and analyzing RF systems
  • Familiar with radio related test equipment such as spectrum analyzers, vector signal analyzers, vector signal generator, network analyzers
  • Experience characterizing radio performance at microwave frequencies
  • Knowledge of digital communication systems, spread spectrum, single and multi-carrier techniques and modulation types such as QPSK, APSK and QAM
  • Python programming experience for test automation

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