Principal RF Design Engineer, Radar Satellites

Superorganism; Redwood City (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Array Labs is seeking a Staff RF Design Engineer to design and validate RF electronics for radar sensors. You will lead from architecture through prototyping, collaborating with antenna, mixed-signal, mechanical, firmware, and test engineers to optimize noise, gain, power, and stability for on-orbit performance.

The role requires a strong background in RF subsystems, timing-critical components, and hands-on lab work, with potential for leadership in design reviews and qualification campaigns.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering with 4–7 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in electronics design, bring-up, and test.
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills.
• Learns new concepts rapidly, completely, and in a self-directed manner.
• High levels of self-motivation and personal accountability.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment under significant time constraints.

Responsibilities

• Develop advanced RF electronic subsystems, from architecture to manufacturing
• Work closely with RF systems, antenna, mixed-signal, mechanical, firmware, and test engineers to design and validate state-of-the-art radar sensor hardware
• Own RF subsystem definition and design trade studies, balancing noise figure, linearity, output power, stability, spurious performance, and power consumption
• Select components, capture schematics, and design complex RF assemblies including receive and transmit chains, switching networks, filtering, and protection circuitry
• Lead prototyping, hardware bring-up, debug, characterization, and test campaigns for RF electronics
• Rapidly iterate on and improve RF designs based on laboratory and environmental testing
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, risk reduction planning, and mentorship of other engineers

Skills

Teamwork

Communication

Self-motivation

Accountability

Time management

Education

B.S. in Electrical Engineering

M.S. or Ph.D. in EE/Applied Physics

Tools

Altium Designer

Allegro/OrCAD

ADS

Microwave Office

HFSS

Job description

Array Labs is seeking a Staff RF Design Engineer to design and validate RF electronics for radar sensors. You will lead from architecture through prototyping, collaborating with antenna, mixed-signal, mechanical, firmware, and test engineers to optimize noise, gain, power, and stability for on-orbit performance.

The role requires a strong background in RF subsystems, timing-critical components, and hands-on lab work, with potential for leadership in design reviews and qualification campaigns.