Senior Staff Antenna Engineer

The role

You will design, analyze, and test antennas and RF front ends for radar, electronic warfare, and sensing systems. You will own antenna development from architecture trades through qualification and production.

What you will do

• Perform architecture and design trades for antenna approaches
• Translate system requirements into antenna, aperture, RF front-end, and radome requirements
• Design, analyze, integrate, and test antennas and phased arrays
• Lead antenna and RF front-end development for AESA systems
• Perform electromagnetic modeling and array analysis using HFSS, CST, MATLAB, and Python
• Plan and conduct antenna verification and qualification
• Build and integrate antenna prototypes and support test campaigns
• Work with thermal, mechanical, RF, and digital engineers
• Provide antenna technical guidance during design reviews
• Identify and resolve technical risks

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field
• 10+ years of antenna engineering experience in radar, EW, or related RF sensing applications
• Deep expertise in antenna design in at least one frequency band
• Working knowledge of antenna design across other frequency bands
• Experience designing phased arrays and RF front ends
• Experience with narrowband and wideband architectures such as TCDA, Vivaldi, or log-periodic design
• Hands-on experience with electromagnetic simulation, antenna measurement, and model-to-test correlation
• Experience integrating antennas with beamforming electronics, radomes, structures, and thermal systems
• Ability to work independently and collaborate across disciplines

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, or a related field
• Experience with digital or adaptive beamforming, monopulse processing, multifunction arrays, or conformal arrays
• Experience with ruggedized antennas, radomes, and installed-antenna performance
• Experience with design for manufacturing, automated calibration, and production test
• Technical contributions demonstrated through fielded systems or patents
• Active security clearance

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 while working onsite
• fully-stocked kitchen
• unlimited PTO
• casual dress code
• pre-IPO stock option grants
• relocation assistance

Before you apply

• U.S. citizenship is required
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance

About the company

CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised $1 billion in funding. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles and develops products powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™).