RF Front-End Architect for Defense & Aerospace RF

NPAworldwide; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Professional development

Collaborative engineering culture

Job summary

Austin-based opportunity with NPAworldwide to contribute to rugged embedded RF front-ends for defense and aerospace markets. You will craft RF/mixed-signal chains, design clocking, and power architectures for advanced embedded computing platforms, collaborating with FPGA and PCB teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on lab work, test, and production readiness, with opportunities to influence architecture decisions and mentor younger engineers in a global engineering organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience designing complete RF and mixed-signal signal chains including RF front ends and analog filtering.
• Experience taking RF hardware from system architecture to production.
• Strong RF theory including impedance matching, noise mitigation, and high-speed PCB design.
• Experience selecting high-speed ADCs/DACs from TI/Analog Devices or similar.
• RF circuits operating up to 18 GHz and digital interfaces to FPGA-based processing.
• Experience programmable clock generation and distribution for multiple sampling rates.
• Experience designing low-noise power supplies for high-performance systems.
• Hands-on lab experience with RF test equipment and measurement.
• Collaborating with PCB layout engineers to optimize routing and manufacturability.
• Strong troubleshooting skills for analog/mixed-signal issues.

Responsibilities

• As an RF Analog Design Engineer, design RF signal paths, low-noise analog circuitry, clocking, and power architectures for high-performance embedded computing.
• Collaborate with FPGA, PCB, embedded software, and systems teams to validate and optimize architectures across the product lifecycle.
• Lead signal integrity analyses and solve complex RF/mixed-signal performance challenges for defense/aerospace platforms.

Skills

RF circuit design

Analog mixed-signal design

High-speed ADCs/DACs

RFSoC devices

Clock generation

Power supply design

Signal integrity

Lab testing

PCB collaboration

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or related field

Tools

Xilinx RFSoC

Mentor DxDesigner

PCB design tools

Oscilloscopes

Spectrum analyzers

Network analyzers

Job description

Austin-based opportunity with NPAworldwide to contribute to rugged embedded RF front-ends for defense and aerospace markets. You will craft RF/mixed-signal chains, design clocking, and power architectures for advanced embedded computing platforms, collaborating with FPGA and PCB teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on lab work, test, and production readiness, with opportunities to influence architecture decisions and mentor younger engineers in a global engineering organization.