RF Firmware Engineer — Front-End Radar (Equity)

Mach Industries; Huntington Beach (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, CA seeks an RF Firmware Engineer to develop embedded firmware for advanced RF front-ends on next-gen defense platforms. You will write high-performance bare-metal C/C++ code for resource-constrained MCUs powering radar RF front-ends, and collaborate with RF hardware engineers on system optimization.

Responsibilities include firmware bring-up, calibration, lab verification, and automation scripting in Python.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, CS, or related field.
• 5+ years embedded firmware for RF front-ends (radar/seeker or wireless).
• Proficient in bare-metal C/C++ in memory-constrained environments.
• Experience bringing up new MCUs and peripherals.

Responsibilities

• Build next-generation counter-UAV defense systems and RF front-end firmware.
• Develop bare-metal C/C++ firmware for RF front-end boards.
• Collaborate with RF hardware engineers on hardware/software trade-offs.
• Bring-up peripherals and RF ICs (I2C, SPI, CAN, GPIO).
• Verify RF front-end performance with lab tests and calibration.
• Write Python scripts to automate calibration processes.
• Ensure firmware quality, reliability, and testing.

Skills

Bare-metal C/C++

MCU bring-up

RF/microwave knowledge

Python scripting

I2C

SPI

CAN

GPIO

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering, CS, or related

Tools

I2C

SPI

CAN

Ethernet

Job description

Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, CA seeks an RF Firmware Engineer to develop embedded firmware for advanced RF front-ends on next-gen defense platforms. You will write high-performance bare-metal C/C++ code for resource-constrained MCUs powering radar RF front-ends, and collaborate with RF hardware engineers on system optimization.

Responsibilities include firmware bring-up, calibration, lab verification, and automation scripting in Python.