Senior RF Electronics Engineer

The role

The Senior RF Electronics Engineer will design, build, test, and manage satellite RF payload electronics for secure communications. You will own hardware through the entire lifecycle from design and trade studies to production readiness and on-orbit operations.

What you will do

• Design, analyze, validate, and own a satellite payload RF chain
• Own product delivery timeline through the entire lifecycle
• Assess power/signal integrities and EMI/EMC issues
• Develop and execute RF test plans for component and system-level validation
• Collaborate to manage qualification and acceptance test campaigns for space environments
• Collaborate to manage and perform integration and test of hardware on the spacecraft

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related STEM field with a focus on RF and/or millimeter wave hardware
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in RF or millimeter wave hardware design, analysis, and testing
• Experience designing and characterizing active and passive RF analog electronic components
• Experience with RF circuit simulation tools (e.g. Keysight ADS, Cadence AWR Microwave Office)
• Experience with multilayer PCB design, layout, and manufacturing using software tools such as Altium or similar
• Experience with RF test and measurement tools such as vector network analyzers (VNAs), spectrum analyzers, signal generators, and software defined radios (SDRs)
• Detailed knowledge of EMI/EMC/ESD mitigation techniques specific to RF hardware
• Self-motivated with strong organizational, written, and oral communication skills

Nice to have

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus on RF and/or millimeter wave electronics
• Minimum of 6 years of professional experience working on RF or millimeter wave hardware design, analysis, and testing
• Experience working with electrical hardware and/or avionics for space through the entire product life cycle
• Experience designing and testing hardware for space environments or similar per standards such as SMC-S-016 or MIL-STD-461
• Familiar with power electronics for biasing RF circuits
• Familiar with the entire RF communications system from baseband to RF antenna
• Experience with electromagnetic, passive RF, and antenna simulation tools (e.g. Ansys Electronics Desktop HFSS)
• Experience with designing and testing RF hardware above 17 GHz
• Familiar with waveguides and traveling wave tube amps (TWTAs)
• Familiar with test automation, data processing and visualization using Python or MATLAB

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 worldwide. The team is led by experienced engineers from companies such as Google, SpaceX, and Amazon.