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Senior RF Hardware Engineer

Northwood Space · Torrance, CA · On-site

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About Northwood Space

Take space missions further faster. Backed by a16z.

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
  • 5+ 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
More about this role

Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company bringing the benefits of space to the masses through advanced communications technology. We are building a global network of phased array ground stations that enable real-time, reliable communication for satellite missions such as national security, global connectivity, and disaster response. With a vertically integrated approach, Northwood designs, builds, and rapidly deploys scalable systems that power the next generation of space missions. If you like solving complex challenges and seeing your work deployed around the world with real impact, Northwood is the place to do it.

As a Senior RF Hardware Engineer you will be responsible for RF electronics design and performance. You will influence the overall ground network and portal design based on RF performance trades, and you will collaborate with many disciplines including electrical, RF, mechanical, manufacturing, and software engineers to create the best product from concept to production.

Design RF electronics hardware for next generation products, and iterate on existing hardware to improve reliability, performance, and manufacturability

Create electromagnetic simulation...

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