RF Systems Engineer

Acceler8 Talent; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 162,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full medical, dental and vision

401(k) with 4% company match

Daily meals

Job summary

Acceler8 Talent is seeking the first RF Systems Engineer to shape the architecture for radar and satellite communications products in a hands-on startup environment. You will translate customer requirements into RF system architecture, define budgets, and collaborate across RFIC/MMIC, EM, analog and packaging teams to deliver integrated hardware.

The role requires Phased Arrays experience and involves validating systems through measurement and OTA characterization, interfacing with customer

Qualifications

• Must have hands-on experience designing RF systems for radar, satellite, or wireless products.
• Translate customer requirements into system-level specifications and budgets.
• Collaborate with RFIC/MMIC, EM, analog, and packaging teams.
• Validate hardware through measurements and OTA characterization.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer requirements into RF system architecture, budgets and block-level specifications.
• Make design trades across phased arrays, beamformers, T/R modules and transceiver chains.
• Define link budgets, noise figure, linearity, EIRP and dynamic-range requirements.
• Work across RFIC/MMIC, electromagnetics, analog and packaging teams to deliver integrated hardware.
• Validate assembled systems through measurement, calibration and over-the-air characterization.
• Act as the technical interface to customer systems teams from requirements through acceptance.

Skills

RF systems

Phased Arrays

Millimeter-wave

RFIC/MMIC

Beamformers

Transceiver chains

Job description

Hiring: Founding RF Systems Engineer | Phased Arrays & Satellite Communications

Boston area, just north of Cambridge | On-site

$20M+ pre-seed funding. MIT roots. Advanced 3D chips for defense radar and satellite communications.

I’m partnering with a semiconductor startup combining different chip materials into vertically integrated 3D systems, bringing RF, silicon, power and packaging together in a single device.

Their founder is an MIT Fellow who led world-first demonstrations of these 3D chips.

Now, they’re hiring their first RF Systems Engineer to shape the architecture behind their radar and satellite communications products.

You’ll own:

• Translating customer requirements into RF system architecture, budgets and block-level specifications


• Making design trades across phased arrays, beamformers, T/R modules and transceiver chains


• Defining link budgets, noise figure, linearity, EIRP and dynamic-range requirements


• Working across RFIC/MMIC, electromagnetics, analog and packaging teams to deliver integrated hardware


• Validating assembled systems through measurement, calibration and over-the-air characterization


• Acting as the technical interface to customer systems teams, from requirements through acceptance

I’d love to speak with engineers who have personally taken RF or millimeter-wave hardware through development and into shipped radar, satellite or wireless products.

Phased Arrays experience is mandatory

upto $180K base + founding-team equity

• Full medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k) with 4% company match, and daily meals.

Interested in owning RF systems architecture within a small founding team?

Benefits found in job post

401(k)