Senior RF Electrical Engineer (Prism)

The role

You will design and own RF hardware for Prism, a 2.4-meter parabolic antenna. You will work across the multi-band RF chain from architecture through prototype, characterization, and production.

What you will do

• Design RF electronics hardware for Prism
• Iterate on existing Prism hardware to improve reliability, performance, and manufacturability
• Own RF line-up design for Prism's receive and transmit chains
• Design and trade RF architectures that support Prism's multiple frequency bands
• Create electromagnetic simulation models of Prism hardware
• Build RF circuits for Prism including LNAs, filters, power amplifiers, and frequency converters
• Support circuitry design for power and digital control
• Characterize performance of RF circuits

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or related engineering discipline
• 5+ years of RF design experience, across circuits, filters, or antennas
• Experience taking RF hardware from design through bring-up, characterization, and debug in the lab
• Comfort with RF test equipment, including network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, noise figure analyzers, and power meters

Nice to have

• RF line-up design, considering non-linearity, noise, output power, and blocker/jammer tolerance
• Power amplifier, LNA, and filter design
• Satellite ground terminal hardware across multiple frequency bands, such as LNBs, block upconverters/downconverters, or tracking receivers
• Frequency synthesis and LO design, including PLLs and phase noise optimization
• Filter, diplexer, and multiplexer design, including waveguide and planar implementations
• Waveguide component and transition design, including waveguide-to-microstrip transitions, OMTs, and feeds
• Theory and testing related to EVM, Noise Figure, power handling metrics (IIP2, IMD), impedance matching, amplifier stability, and cascaded network analysis
• Design and bring-up of point-of-load converters and common digital interfaces such as I2C/SPI

Before you apply

• Successfully obtaining and maintaining a Top Secret Security Clearance is a condition of employment
• Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of St

About the company

Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company bringing the benefits of space to the masses through advanced communications technology. They design, build, and rapidly deploy scalable systems that power the next generation of space missions.