Senior RF Systems Engineer - Aerospace & SATCOM

Urban Sky; Quinte West; On-site; CAD 196,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock Options

Medical Vision and Dental

Unlimited / Flexible Leave

Cell Phone Bill Stipend

Job summary

Urban Sky is seeking a Senior RF Systems Engineer to own the RF domain across the company—emitter, receiver, antenna, and link, from vehicle boards to ground stations.

You’ll manage dense RF environments including SATCOM, GNSS, SDRs, and co-site interference, architect ground‑station topologies, and ensure secure, resilient RF links in contested environments. On-site in Denver preferred.

Qualifications

• 7+ years hands-on RF systems engineering in aerospace, satellite, or high-altitude platforms.
• Deep understanding of RF propagation, link budgets, modulation and coding, and antenna design principles.
• Board-level RF experience: diagnose desense and interference with spectrum analyzer/schematic.
• Hands-on test experience with spectrum analyzers, VNAs, signal generators, and antenna measurement.

Responsibilities

• Review and optimize emitting/receiving RF systems across avionics and devices (SATCOM, GNSS, SDRs).
• Review and optimize antenna selection, design, and placement across the fleet.
• Own RF link budgets across mission phases and validate with hardware-in-the-loop and field testing.
• Architect ground station systems and multi-node relay/bent-pipe topologies.
• Develop solutions for MIMO architectures, mesh data backhaul, and efficient routing topology.
• Harden RF systems for contested environments: jamming resilience, GPS protection, and graceful degradation.
• Develop secure, encrypted networking standards for RF-borne data across vehicle, ground, and customer interfaces.
• Lead RF integration and interference deconfliction for third-party payloads hosted on our platforms.
• Evaluate RF-sensing partners and payloads.
• Support spectrum planning, frequency coordination, and regulatory compliance (FCC, ITU).

Skills

RF systems engineering

Aerospace/Satellite experience

Link budgets

RF propagation

Spectrum analysis

Scripting/analysis

Secure communications

Education

B.S./M.S. in Electrical/Communications Engineering

Tools

Spectrum analyzers

Vector Network Analyzers (VNAs)

Signal generators

Antenna measurement

Job description

Urban Sky is seeking a Senior RF Systems Engineer to own the RF domain across the company—emitter, receiver, antenna, and link, from vehicle boards to ground stations.

You’ll manage dense RF environments including SATCOM, GNSS, SDRs, and co-site interference, architect ground‑station topologies, and ensure secure, resilient RF links in contested environments. On-site in Denver preferred.