# Staff RF Engineer at LeoLabs

- Company: LeoLabs
- What the company does: LeoLabs delivers the Orbital Intelligence operators need to detect, track, characterize, and respond to threats in space. Backed by Insight.
- Company website: https://www.leolabs.space/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Menlo Park, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $205K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-22
- Apply by: 2026-11-06
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/leolabsinc/jobs/4414580009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/leolabs-staff-rf-engineer/

## About the role

If you're looking to work on mission-critical challenges at the forefront of aerospace, national security, and AI, your impact starts here.As a Staff RF Engineer, you will lead the development of the RF electronics that define the performance of our next-generation radar systems. You will own challenging RF design problems across multiple programs, from architecture and requirements through design, validation, and production.

## What they're looking for

- Lead the architecture and development of RF modules for next-generation radar platforms
- Design and analyze RF circuits including receivers, transmitters, amplifiers, filters, frequency synthesis, and antenna interfaces
- Develop system-level RF budgets, cascade analyses, and performance models
- Drive RF PCB design from schematic capture through layout, bring-up, validation, and production release
- Perform laboratory characterization, debugging, calibration, and performance optimization using modern RF test equipment
- Work closely with electrical, mechanical, embedded software, and manufacturing engineers to integrate RF hardware into complete radar systems

Tags: Radars