RF & PCB Design Engineer for Autonomous UAVs

Tycho.AI; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Generous benefits package

Job summary

Tycho.AI is seeking an Electrical Engineer to join our hardware team, focusing on board development and RF for our autonomous air vehicles. The role is hands-on, taking designs from concept through prototype, test, and production.

The ideal candidate has strong experience in electrical architecture and PCB design with RF integration skills to design, build, and deploy hardware powering our systems. 3+ years of relevant experience is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 3+ years of electrical design, prototyping, and manufacturing experience.
• Experience with Altium.
• Working knowledge of RF hardware: radios, amplifiers, antennas.
• Experience with UAS-relevant radios such as RFD, Microhard, or Silvus.

Responsibilities

• Select components based on mission, electrical, thermal, and mechanical needs.
• Design electrical board assemblies.
• Perform board layout, sourcing and purchasing, programming, testing, and debug.
• Perform RF link budget and bandwidth analyses based on mission needs.
• Select components and design RF chain.
• Implement encoding and compression algorithms.

Skills

Electrical design

PCB design

RF integration

UAS RF radios

Field testing RF components

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium

Jira

Job description

Tycho.AI is seeking an Electrical Engineer to join our hardware team, focusing on board development and RF for our autonomous air vehicles. The role is hands-on, taking designs from concept through prototype, test, and production.

The ideal candidate has strong experience in electrical architecture and PCB design with RF integration skills to design, build, and deploy hardware powering our systems. 3+ years of relevant experience is expected.