Space RF Electronics Engineer
AnySignal
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Posted on Oct 4, 2024
AnySignal is a startup whose mission is to usher in the next generation of RF products and services. For the most demanding space and defense missions, AnySignal provides a flexible platform with world-class performance that is easy to deploy, monitor, purchase, and upgrade.
Our team has a diverse range of backgrounds that cover cloud computing to artificial intelligence, communications and sensing, embedded systems, and much more.
As an RF Electronics Engineer on the Space team, you will be responsible for owning the design, manufacture, test, and deployment of highly integrated RF devices used by a large number of space customers. You will work with a small team of software, hardware, and FPGA engineers to shepherd the product from initial design to vehicle integration, taking a full-stack approach to building robust space communications systems.
Responsibilities
- Perform trades and analysis on board and system architecture and component selection
- Bringup and test of new designs
- Coordinate with digital electronics engineers to bridge analog and digital domains
- Design for performance under space-grade acceptance, qualification, and compliance requirements, and build test plans for acceptance and qualification campaigns
- Work with mechanical engineers to ensure proper thermal dissipation of the device
- Work with supply chain counterparts to enable rapid manufacture and iteration of devices
- Troubleshoot new RF PCBAs
- Test and validate RF performance metrics in new designs
Required Skills
- Robust experience designing circuitry in microwave bands across the entirety of the RF data conversion and frontend chains
- Demonstrable experience with the end-to-end PCB design process, including schematic capture, layout, fabrication and assembly
- Experience with electronic design and analysis tools such as Keysight ADS, Ansys HFSS, and Altium Designer
- Excellent understanding of RF metrics such as S-parameters, P1dB, noise figure, channel power, and EVM
- Strong experience with design and analysis of RF cascades, link budgets, and noise analysis
- Experience with test instruments (oscilloscopes, power supplies, VNAs, spectrum analyzers)
- Experience with low noise amplifiers, power amplifiers, mixers, ADCs/DACs, phased locked loops, oscillators, filters
Desired Skills
- Experience building complex PCBs in Altium Designer
- Experience selecting components for radiation-susceptible environments
- Experience working with AD9361, Xilinx RFSoC, and similar digital-analog conversion interfaces
- Solid experience soldering and reworking boards (0402 SMP components, QFN packages)
- Experience performing communications link modeling and solid understanding of DSP fundamentals
- Knowledge of antenna design, simulation, and measurement in near-field/far-field regimes
- Experience working with high-PAPR signals and knowledge of DPD concepts
In order to comply with the space technology export rules of the U.S. Government, such as the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), it is necessary to be a U.S. citizen, a lawful U.S. permanent resident, a protected individual as specified by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or possess eligibility to secure the necessary authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. For additional information on ITAR, please seek further details.
AnySignal values and fosters an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel respected, supported and able to participate. We welcome applications from: women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, visible minorities, veterans, people who identify as LGBTQIA2S+ and others who may contribute to diversification in our environment.
Should you have a need for accommodation, AnySignal will endeavor to meet your accommodation needs. At any stage of the recruitment and selection process you may make your needs for accommodation known through contacting our team, in confidence, by email to: careers@anysignal.com. We aim to provide equal access to all applicants with disabilities, please do not hesitate to contact us about accommodations.