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Staff RF Microwave Engineer

Reach · Redwood City, CA · On-site

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About Reach

Reach delivers long-range, wireless power-at-a-distance for defense, industrial, and critical infrastructure use cases. Eliminate manual charging and enable persistent operations with scalable wireless energy solutions. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

This role will position you as a key contributor of Reach’s radio frequency engineering team. As a Microwave Engineer, you will be a key part of Reach’s RF engineering team and develop state of the art systems that are integral to Reach’s wireless power beaming capability. Your technical know-how and innovation skills are key to designing cutting edge products in a fast-paced environment.

What they're looking for

  • MS degree in electrical or RF engineering (PhD preferred)
  • 10+ years of experience as a microwave engineer or equivalent
  • Expert with EM simulation software (HFSS and HFSS SBR+), CST, and circuit simulation tools, such as Keysight ADS
  • Hands on experience using spectrum analyzer, VNA, signal generator, oscilloscope, and logic analyzer
  • Fluent with PCB layout techniques for distributed-element components implementation
  • Experience is developing hardware and testing for some or all of the following: Bluetooth, BLE, Wi-Fi, RF to DC power conversion
More about this role

At Reach, we are delivering technologies to enable the long-range, wireless transfer of power. We believe wireless energy can be as liberating for power systems as WiFi was for data systems, and are busy creating the energy infrastructure that will one day replace the aging electrical grid. We have raised funding from top tier VC's, have real world customers deploying our technology, and are continuing to build out the exceptional team that is making our vision a reality.

The Position

This role will position you as a key contributor of Reach’s radio frequency engineering team. As a Microwave Engineer, you will be a key part of Reach’s RF engineering team and develop state of the art systems that are integral to Reach’s wireless power beaming capability. Your technical know-how and innovation skills are key to designing cutting edge products in a fast-paced environment. You will contribute to design, simulation and implementation of power amplifiers and other components and subsystems at microwave frequencies. As an engineer in a small company, you will have a great deal of agency over your work, plenty of opportunity to discover and solve new challenges, and the ability to make...

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