Lead Spaceborne RF Engineer – Radar Payload Hardware

EVONA; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

EVONA is seeking a principal RF/microwave engineer to own the flight-ready RF hardware end-to-end in a Seattle, on-site role, impacting sensitivity, power, waveform fidelity, and mission performance.

You will work across transmit and/or receive chains, drive architecture budgets, and collaborate with antenna, digital, power, and spacecraft teams to bring hardware from design to production readiness.

Qualifications

• Expert RF/microwave design experience across transmit and/or receive chains: RF budgets, gain and noise analysis, linearity, dynamic range, phase noise, coherence, high-power amplification, filtering, matching networks, microwave PCB design, RF simulation, lab characterisation, and calibration.
• Experience developing space-qualified hardware, and ideally exposure to phased arrays, radar payloads, or aerospace RF systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the RF architecture and performance budgets.
• Design and verify RF transmit and/or receive chains spanning digital interfaces, RF signal conditioning, amplification, filtering, and calibration.
• Retire RF, thermal, power, EMI/EMC, and integration risks.
• Collaborate across antenna, digital, power, and spacecraft disciplines.
• Transition qualified hardware into repeatable production.

Skills

RF/microwave design

RF budgets

Gain and noise analysis

Linearity

Dynamic range

Phase noise

High-power amplification

Microwave PCB design

RF simulation

Calibration

Job description

EVONA is seeking a principal RF/microwave engineer to own the flight-ready RF hardware end-to-end in a Seattle, on-site role, impacting sensitivity, power, waveform fidelity, and mission performance.

You will work across transmit and/or receive chains, drive architecture budgets, and collaborate with antenna, digital, power, and spacecraft teams to bring hardware from design to production readiness.