Staff RF Engineer

The role

The Staff RF Engineer will architect, design, integrate, and test communications networks for various platforms with a focus on Command and Control Systems. This role involves designing wireless tactical networking equipment and leading electrical integration of communications systems into UAVs, ground vehicles, and weapons systems.

What you will do

• Architect, design, integrate and test communications networks across a variety of platforms and systems
• Design, configure, simulate and evaluate wireless tactical networking equipment, topologies, systems and datalinks
• Architect waveforms and systems to connect autonomous and human-operated systems
• Lead electrical integration of communications systems along with avionics modules and payloads into UAVs, ground vehicles, weapons systems, and C2 systems
• Support other functional engineering teams development effort
• Represent communications and networking sub-systems in vehicle-level cross-disciplinary trade-off studies

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
• 10+ years of experience with RF circuitry, communication systems architecture, and design for high reliability, resiliency, redundancy and/or fault tolerance
• Strong RF circuit design including noise figure analysis, frequency synthesis, modulation, AGC, antenna matching, power amplifier biasing, and filtering
• Strong grasp of RF propagation, link budgets, and digital comms
• Hands-on experience integrating and troubleshooting radios on vehicles or platforms
• Working knowledge of EMI/EMC and system-level integration issues (MIL-STD-461/464)
• Proficiency with RF test equipment (VNA, spectrum analyzer, signal generator, oscilloscope) and test automation
• Understanding of hardware evaluation methodologies
• Understanding of RF propagation and link budget design
• Understanding of EMI and common system level integration issues
• Competence with test equipment such as vector network analyzers, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, thermal chambers, and current-probes
• Must be able to travel 25% of the time

Nice to have

• Master's degree
• Understanding and familiarity with DO-254, DO-178C, DO-160
• Understanding and familiarity with MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-464, MIL-STD-882
• Experience designing sensitive RF Circuits
• Basic understanding of RF frequency regulations
• Experience with practical network configuration and troubleshooting
• Experience with network modeling and simulation
• Knowledge of integration and implementation of network security and the impact of security on network design
• Knowledge of modern analog and digital electronics and electronic circuits
• Proficiency in Python for test automation and data analysis

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees

Before you apply

• Able to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
• Consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. The company's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.