RF Engineer: Antenna & Sensing for Drone Detection

DAS Technology Group; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Stock options

401(k) plan

Life and disability insurance

Free daily meals

Job summary

DAS Technology Group is seeking an RF Engineer to design, optimize, and deploy advanced radio systems for our autonomy and airspace intelligence platform. You will own antenna design, perform RF testing, and push passive RF sensing capabilities from prototype to field deployment.

Ideal candidates have hands‑on experience with SDR platforms (USRP/HackRF/BladeRF), VNAs, and spectrum analyzers, plus strength in system integration and real‑world deployment constraints.

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in RF engineering, electromagnetics, and antenna theory.
• Hands-on experience with RF test equipment (spectrum analyzers, VNAs, signal generators).
• Experience designing or tuning antennas and validating RF systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype, and optimize RF systems for airborne and ground‑based platforms.
• Develop, tune, and validate antenna systems for performance, range, and reliability.
• Conduct RF testing, measurement, and analysis (VNA, spectrum analyzer, SDRs).
• Improve signal integrity, reduce noise/interference, and optimize system‑level RF performance.
• Design and iterate on in‑house antenna solutions (patch, dipole, phased arrays).
• Build and test RF pipelines for passive detection and classification of wireless emitters.
• Develop and implement RF‑based localization and triangulation techniques.
• Work with SDR platforms to capture, process, and analyze RF signals in real time.
• Collaborate with software and autonomy teams to integrate RF data into higher‑level systems.
• Support field testing and deployment, debugging real‑world RF issues.
• Contribute to hardware architecture decisions across communications and sensing systems.

Skills

RF engineering

Antenna design

VNA testing

SDR usage

Signal processing

Lab testing

System integration

C/C++

Tools

USRP

HackRF

BladeRF

Spectrum analyzer

Job description

DAS Technology Group is seeking an RF Engineer to design, optimize, and deploy advanced radio systems for our autonomy and airspace intelligence platform. You will own antenna design, perform RF testing, and push passive RF sensing capabilities from prototype to field deployment.

Ideal candidates have hands‑on experience with SDR platforms (USRP/HackRF/BladeRF), VNAs, and spectrum analyzers, plus strength in system integration and real‑world deployment constraints.