Electrical Engineer - RF SMD PCB design

TapHere! Technology, LLC; Evergreen (CO); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

TapHere! Technology, LLC is seeking a hardware engineer with an RF concentration to develop next-gen SDR products for mobile and government markets. You''ll work in a small-team, independent setting on RF circuit design, board layout, and firmware for embedded controllers.

Familiarity with Xilinx FPGA platforms and USB data paths is a plus. Ideal candidates have a BSEE with RF experience, strong PCB skills, and proficiency in CAD tools like OrCAD/Altium.

Qualifications

• BSEE with RF concentration required or preferred.
• Experience in RF circuit design and board layout.
• Exposure to both analog and digital circuits.
• Firmware development in Embedded C/C++ or similar.

Responsibilities

• RF circuit board layout, floor planning and impedance matching.
• RF circuit design including link budgeting and up/down conversion.
• Testing and troubleshooting RF hardware and front ends.
• Develop firmware for embedded controllers and data interfaces.

Skills

RF circuit design

PCB layout

FPGA (Xilinx)

Verilog/VHDL

USB data paths

Embedded C/C++

CAD tools (OrCAD/Altium)

Matlab/Simulink

RF front ends

Microcontroller basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Xilinx Vivado

Xilinx ISE

Altium

OrCAD

Job description

Our mission is to create small, versatile, next generation SDR products for the mobile and government/first-responder markets.

We're looking for a hardware engineer (BSEE) with an RF concentration, and optionally some Xilinx FPGA and VHDL/Verilog gateware design experience, and C/C++ experience.

The ideal candidate will be someone ready for a small-company culture where not everything will be strictly regimented, is comfortable in roles that can sometimes be a bit broadly defined, and isn't expecting a formal environment. You should be OK with not disappearing into a crowd; you'll be working independently and in small teams.

Experience Required:

Background in:

• RF Circuit board layout, floor planning, RF-friendly signal routing, impedance matching, loss calculation.
• Circuit board production: Stack-up, via management, substrate selection;
• RF circuit design: Link budgeting, filtering, signal up/down conversion.

Experience working with:

• Exposure to both analog and digital circuits.
• RF analog front ends; filtering and signal routing.
• Digital acquisition and data back ends (USB preferred)

Great things to have:

• FPGA platforms (Xilinx) on the gateware design level (Vivado, ISE, etc). Verilog/VHDL
• Experience with MicroBlaze and Xilinx Vitis
• Experience with USB controllers such as FTDI 3xx and Cypress
• Microcontroller experience in general.

Skills Required:

Skills desired:

• Proficiency in CAD packages like ORCAD or Altium.
• Proficiency with Matlab, Simulink and/or Octave.
• Firmware development in Embedded C/C++ or similar.
• RF-level test and troubleshooting; impedance matching, loss calculations.

Compensation package includes base salary and benefits. Base salary depends on requirements for education/degree, skills, and professional experience. Annualized base salary range for this position is: $100K and up