# RF Hardware Engineer at Northwood Space

- Company: Northwood Space
- What the company does: Take space missions further faster. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://www.northwoodspace.io
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Torrance, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $104K to $155K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-25
- Apply by: 2026-11-09
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/northwoodspace/5d76a025-bb64-4ddd-8b97-8649c41d89ed
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/northwood-space-rf-hardware-engineer/

## About the role

Design RF electronics hardware for next generation products, and iterate on existing hardware to improve reliability, performance, and manufacturability Create electromagnetic simulation models of hardware (amplifiers, filters, PCB layout) to design and evaluate performance

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or related engineering discipline
- 0-4+ years of RF design experience, across circuits, filters, or antennas
- RF line-up design, considering non-linearity, noise, output power, and blocker/jammer tolerance
- Power amplifier, LNA, and filter design
- Experience with design and bring-up of point of load converters and common digital interfaces such as I2C/SPI
- Theory and testing related to EVM, Noise Figure, power handling metrics (IIP2, IMD), impedance matching, amplifier stability, and cascaded network analysis

Tags: Engineering