Altentechnologyusa
RF Electrical Engineer
Mountain View, California. Posted a month ago
The role
The RF Engineer will own wireless links including LTE/5G, GNSS, ISM datalinks, Wi-Fi/BLE, ADS-B, and Radar across M3 aircraft, docks, and portals. This role involves defining RF architecture, designing RF front-end circuitry, and characterizing performance through bench, chamber, and flight testing.
What you will do
- Define RF architecture and requirements, including radio selection, antenna placement, and link budgets
- Design and review RF front-end circuitry and PCB layout with Electrical Engineering
- Integrate antennas with Mechanical, optimizing pattern, isolation, and airframe effects
- Resolve coexistence, interference, and desense issues across radios, compute, and power electronics
- Characterize performance on the bench, in chamber, and in flight test
- Define production RF test
- Support FCC, CE/UKCA, and carrier certification
- Triage field connectivity issues
Required qualifications
- BS in Electrical Engineering (or related)
- 5+ years of hands-on RF hardware design and integration on production products
- Strong RF fundamentals: link budgets, matching, noise figure, antennas, and propagation
- Experience integrating cellular, GNSS, and/or ISM-band radios and mitigating coexistence
- Proficiency with VNAs, spectrum analyzers, and RF simulation tools (e.g., ADS, HFSS, CST)
Nice to have
- UAV, aviation, or robotics experience
- Familiarity with C2 link and Remote ID/ADS-B requirements
- MS in EE with RF/microwave focus
- FCC/PTCRB and OTA chamber experience
- Python or MATLAB for test automation and data analysis
Benefits
- mentorship
- career growth opportunities
- comprehensive benefits
Before you apply
- All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire
About the company
ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering company with 3,000+ experts across North America. They partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.