RF Analog Design Engineer — High-Impact RF & Mixed‑Signal

Top Echelon LLC; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Top Echelon LLC in Austin, TX seeks an RF Analog Design Engineer to develop high-performance RF and mixed-signal front-ends for defense and aerospace applications. You will design RF signal paths, low-noise analog circuitry, clocking systems, and power architectures in collaboration with FPGA, PCB, and systems engineers.

The role covers the full product lifecycle from concept to production, including FMC and RFSoC-based products, with opportunities to mentor engineers in a collaborative,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Electrical/Electronic Engineering.
• Expertise designing complete RF and mixed-signal signal chains (RF front ends, filtering, ADC/DAC interfaces, clocking, synchronization).
• Experience taking RF hardware from system architecture through schematic capture, PCB, debugging, validation and production.
• Strong RF design theory knowledge: filtering, impedance matching, noise, shielding, grounding, high-speed PCB.
• Experience selecting and integrating high-speed ADCs/DACs from TI, Analog Devices, or similar.
• Experience designing RF circuits up to 18 GHz and understanding DF interfaces to FPGA processing.
• Experience designing programmable clock generation and distribution for multiple sampling rates.
• Experience designing low-noise power supplies for RF/mixed-signal systems.
• Hands-on lab experience with oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, network analyzers.

Responsibilities

• Develop RF analog front-end architectures for high-performance embedded systems in defense/aerospace.
• Design RF signal paths, low-noise analog circuitry, clocking, and power architectures.
• Collaborate with FPGA, PCB, embedded software, and systems teams throughout lifecycle from concept to production.
• Address signal integrity challenges and influence architecture decisions for RF/mixed-signal platforms.

Skills

RF design theory

RF signal chains

ADC/DAC integration

RF front ends

Schematic capture/PCB

Analog/mixed-signal debug

Clock generation/distribution

Power supply design

RF testing equipment

PCB collaboration

Troubleshooting

RFSoC (Xilinx)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Mentor Graphics Xpedition DxDesigner

Job description

Top Echelon LLC in Austin, TX seeks an RF Analog Design Engineer to develop high-performance RF and mixed-signal front-ends for defense and aerospace applications. You will design RF signal paths, low-noise analog circuitry, clocking systems, and power architectures in collaboration with FPGA, PCB, and systems engineers.

The role covers the full product lifecycle from concept to production, including FMC and RFSoC-based products, with opportunities to mentor engineers in a collaborative,