Senior RF Engineer

The role

The Senior RF Engineer will design, analyze, integrate, and verify high-reliability RF and microwave electronics for aerospace and defense applications. This hands-on role involves translating system requirements into RF implementations and validating performance through lab and field experimentation.

What you will do

• Design, analyze, prototype, and tune RF circuit boards incorporating catalog MMICs
• Perform architecture development and component trade studies
• Plan and execute RF testing and characterization
• Contribute to the design and specification of RF test equipment, fixtures, and automation
• Collaborate with systems, power, digital, mechanical, and software engineers
• Serve as a technical contributor from development through production and post-production
• Support linear, nonlinear, and electromagnetic simulations
• Support PCB layout and RF stack-up definition

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with 7+ years of progressively responsible RF engineering experience, or a Masters with 5+ years, or a PhD with 2+ years of relevant experience
• Experience developing RF hardware for aerospace, defense, avionics, radar, EW, communications, or space systems
• Strong understanding of RF fundamentals including gain, noise figure, linearity, phase noise, stability, and impedance matching
• Hands-on experience with RF test equipment (e.g., VNAs, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, power meters)
• Demonstrated ability to analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve complex RF circuit performance issues
• Strong attention to detail and ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, development-focused environments
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance

Nice to have

• Experience with radar, EW, remote sensing, or communications subsystem architecture and performance analysis
• Experience planning and executing lab and field experiments
• Experience with RF front-end prototyping and integration
• Familiarity with antenna/system integration, EMI/EMC, environmental constraints, and applicable aerospace/defense standards
• Experience correlating simulation, analysis, and measured data to refine designs
• Experience supporting design reviews, customer interactions, verification planning, and transition from development into production
• Active U.S. security clearance
• Experience with power amplifier design, analysis, and integration
• Familiarity with EMI/EMC considerations for RF systems and compliance with applicable aerospace standards
• Experience with mixed-signal or RF/digital interfaces

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid for by the company
• 401k with 50% company match up to 6% of pay
• FSA
• HSA
• life insurance
• Free daily lunch
• No meeting Fridays
• unlimited PTO
• casual dress code
• pre-IPO stock option grants
• relocation assistance

Before you apply

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance
• CHAOS Industries does not accept unsolicited resumes or outreach

About the company

CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised a total of $1 billion in funding. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles and focuses on modern defense with a multi-product portfolio.