RF Hardware Engineer
RF Hardware Engineer
Northwoodspace
Northwood Space is seeking an RF Hardware Engineer to design and improve RF electronics for space communication technologies. The role involves collaboration across multiple engineering disciplines to enhance product performance and reliability. Candidates should have a background in electrical engineering and RF design experience.
Qualification
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or related engineering discipline
- 0-4+ years of RF design experience, across circuits, filters, or antennas
- Experience with RF line-up design, considering non-linearity, noise, output power, and blocker/jammer tolerance
- Knowledge of 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
- Familiarity with theory and testing related to EVM, Noise Figure, power handling metrics (IIP2, IMD), impedance matching, amplifier stability, and cascaded network analysis
- Proficiency in Python (or other language) for data analysis and test automation
Responsibility
- 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) and support circuitry (power, digital control), and characterize their performance
- Collaborate with hardware and software engineers to characterize and troubleshoot integrated RF system performance
- Influence overall ground network and portal design based on RF performance trades
