Head of RF Hardware Engineering (Space/Defense)

AnySignal; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 225,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

HSA

Job summary

AnySignal is seeking a Director of RF Engineering to lead the team building the RF hardware for our space radios. You will own execution across RF engineering — delivery, quality, and people — while maintaining technical credibility and hands-on involvement in reviews and architecture debates.

You will set the standard for design reviews, verification, and documentation, partnering with FPGA, DSP, embedded software, mechanical/thermal, and supply chain teams to ensure on-time, high-quality

Qualifications

• 10+ years in RF or hardware engineering, including 4+ years leading engineering teams.
• Direct experience managing senior individual contributors and other leads or managers, and a track record of retaining them.
• Deep personal RF background: you have designed RF hardware yourself and can hold your own in a detailed design review on noise figure, linearity, frequency planning, and layout.
• Demonstrated leadership in demanding hardware environments — space, defense, or comparably high-consequence programs with real delivery pressure and real consequences for being wrong.
• Breadth across hardware beyond RF: digital and high-speed design, power, FPGA interfaces, mechanical and thermal constraints, and manufacturability.
• A record of hiring senior engineers successfully and of raising a team's technical standard, not just its headcount.
• Judgment about when to decide, when to delegate, and when to escape — without becoming the bottleneck.

Responsibilities

• Lead the RF engineering team — hardware engineers, senior ICs, and the leads beneath you — across concurrent radio programs.
• Own delivery: scope, schedule, resourcing, and prioritization, with a clear-eyed read of what the team can actually commit to and the willingness to say so early.
• Be the technical decision-maker for RF hardware below the VP: arbitrate architecture and implementation trades, settle disputes, and hold the design bar in review.
• Own the health of the design review, verification, and documentation process — enough rigor for hardware that has to work on orbit, without turning the team into a paperwork shop.
• Partner across the stack with FPGA and DSP, embedded software, mechanical and thermal, manufacturing, test, and supply chain so RF decisions land well outside RF.
• Own hiring, leveling, performance, and career development for the team; build the bench and keep your best people.
• Represent RF engineering technically with customers, primes, and partners, including in government program contexts.
• Drive the transition from heroics to repeatability as we scale — NPI discipline, test infrastructure, and design reuse across products.

Skills

RF hardware design

Engineering leadership

Architecture decision making

System-level thinking

Requirements analysis

Hiring and mentoring

Job description

AnySignal is seeking a Director of RF Engineering to lead the team building the RF hardware for our space radios. You will own execution across RF engineering — delivery, quality, and people — while maintaining technical credibility and hands-on involvement in reviews and architecture debates.

You will set the standard for design reviews, verification, and documentation, partnering with FPGA, DSP, embedded software, mechanical/thermal, and supply chain teams to ensure on-time, high-quality