Lead RF Engineer, Reflector Antenna

The role

You will be the team lead and responsible engineer for mechanically gimbaled high gain antenna systems. You will manage the hardware implementation and successful spaceflight of RF payload antenna systems.

What you will do

• Perform trade studies, select and manage vendors, design RF and antenna hardware, perform validation tests, and guide systems through production readiness
• Drive development of system-level requirements for mechanically gimbaled reflector antenna systems
• Manage cost and schedule of RF hardware
• Manage vendors and partners, including domestic and international travel as necessary
• Perform trade studies and define RF system architecture
• Collaborate with and provide technical leadership to a multi-disciplinary team
• Establish and manage qualification and acceptance test campaigns for space environments

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a STEM field
• 5+ years of industry experience in RF, microwave, and/or antenna engineering for satellite communications or similar applications
• Strong theoretical and practical understanding of reflector antennas, large aperture high gain antennas, and waveguide
• Familiarity with the full RF system including digital, baseband, analog RF/microwave components, feed antennas, and reflectors
• Demonstrated experience collaborating in a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience carrying RF hardware through its product life cycle
• Self-motivated with strong organizational, written, and oral communication skills

Nice to have

• Master’s or PhD in Electrical Engineering
• Experience with design and over-the-air measurement of mechanically steered high gain antennas
• Experience with orthomode transducers (OMTs), diplexers, polarizers, feed antennas, traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWTAs), and other waveguide components
• Experience with high frequency approximation computational electromagnetics tools such as TICRA GRASP
• Experience with RF test & measurement tools such as vector network analyzers (VNAs), spectrum analyzers, signal generators, and software defined radios (SDRs)
• Experience with the full space hardware product life cycle
• Experience designing and testing hardware for space environments or similar per standards such as SMC-S-016 or MIL-STD-461
• Experience leading cross-functional engineering teams and managing technical projects
• Experience managing subcontractors and suppliers for space hardware
• Familiarity with LEO satellite communications systems and high-throughput payloads

About the company

Logos Space is a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite system designed to provide resilient, high-performance satellite-based connectivity services to enterprise and government customers. The team is led by experienced engineers from companies such as Google, SpaceX, and Amazon.