RF Systems Engineer
5 days ago
As an RF Systems Engineer at Impulse Space, your core responsibility will be to own the design, testing, and delivery of flight RF hardware systems for space missions ranging from low earth orbit to Mars. You'll also work to conduct vehicle-level testing, RF integration, and desense evaluations.
Key Responsibilities- Design and Bring Up RF Systems: Design and bring up RF transmit and receive systems supporting operation from UHF to Ka-Band.
- Collaborate with Cross-Disciplinary Teams: Work with a cross-disciplinary team to define and implement RF hardware requirements on a mission-by-mission basis, design RF PCBs, bring up and troubleshoot RF systems, and integrate systems to spacecraft.
- Improve Existing RF Products: Improve existing RF products throughout their lifecycle by troubleshooting issues, performing failure analysis of parts and systems, and implementing improvements.
- Support RF Performance Testing: Support RF performance testing including for radiation, thermal, vibration, and KPIs.
- Collaborate with Antenna and RF Software Engineers: Work with antenna engineers to design compatible systems and work with RF software engineers to design performant RF systems and maintain link budgets.
- Integration and Operations: Work closely with integration and operations teams to conduct integration, checkout procedures, and vehicle-level EMI testing.
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or Related Field: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical field.
- Professional Experience: 2+ years of professional experience designing or testing RF components.
- RF PCB Debugging Skills: Strong RF PCB debugging skills.
- RF Equipment Experience: Ability to work in the lab with RF equipment including spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, signal generators, and software defined radios.
- RF Test Procedure Design: Proficient in RF test procedure design and implementation.
- RF Front End Knowledge: Strong understanding of the major blocks of RF front ends.
- Signal Modulation/Demodulation: Familiarity with blocks of signal modulation/demodulation and modulation schemes such as BPSK, APSK, GMSK, FSK, etc.
- Link Budget and Desense Experience: Demonstrate experience with link budget and lineup calculations and demonstrated experience characterizing system desense and coexistence.
- RF Component Design: Ability to design and integrate RF components including LNAs, filters, PAs, mixers, etc.
- Electromagnetic Simulation Software: Familiarity with an electromagnetic simulation software such as HFSS, CST, ADS, or Genesys.
- RF Transmitter and Receiver Design: Previous experience designing Ka-Band RF transmitters and receivers GHz.
- Scripting and Instrument Control: Experience scripting Python, LabView, TILE or another software used for instrument control and data processing.
- FPGA Development: Experience with FPGA development in Verilog/VHDL.
- RF Protocols: Experience with common RF protocols like SRS4, DVBS-II, and CCSDS.
- Agile Development Environment: Experience in a startup or agile development environment.
Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
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