Senior MMIC Design Engineer – High-Power RF for Satellites

K2Spacecorporation; United States; On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision coverage

Life insurance

Paid parental leave

Job summary

K2 Space is on a mission to build the most powerful satellites, and this Senior MMIC Design Engineer role sits at the heart of that effort. You will own MMIC designs from architecture through tapeout, collaborating with RF systems, packaging, and transceiver teams to deliver rugged, high‑reliability circuits for space missions.

You should have a strong track record in GaAs/GaN MMICs, extensive hands‑on RF/MW testing, and experience with Cadence, ADS, and EM tools.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 5+ years designing RF/mmWave MMICs in GaAs and/or GaN technologies.
• Demonstrated design experience with PAs, LNAs, and/or RF switches, with deep expertise in at least one of these areas.
• Strong understanding of RF fundamentals including impedance matching, stability, noise, linearity, power handling, and nonlinear behavior.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop power amplifiers (PAs), low-noise amplifiers (LNAs), and RF switches in GaAs and GaN technologies.
• Own designs from architecture and topology selection through schematic design, layout, EM simulation, tapeout, and silicon/MMIC characterization.
• Optimize circuits for output power, efficiency, linearity, noise figure, bandwidth, gain, and robustness.
• Perform RF and electromagnetic simulations, including passive structures, matching networks, interconnects, and package/interface effects.
• Develop test plans and characterize MMICs using RF and millimeter-wave laboratory equipment.
• Correlate measured performance with simulation and drive design improvements.
• Work closely with RF systems, antenna, packaging, and transceiver IC teams to define interfaces and enable system-level integration.
• Contribute to technology evaluation, architecture trades, design methodology, and development of MMIC capabilities from the ground up.

Skills

RF/MMIC design

GaAs/GaN experience

RF testing & characterization

Tapeout experience

Education

MS/PhD EE

Tools

Cadence

Keysight ADS

EM simulation tools

Job description

K2 Space is on a mission to build the most powerful satellites, and this Senior MMIC Design Engineer role sits at the heart of that effort. You will own MMIC designs from architecture through tapeout, collaborating with RF systems, packaging, and transceiver teams to deliver rugged, high‑reliability circuits for space missions.

You should have a strong track record in GaAs/GaN MMICs, extensive hands‑on RF/MW testing, and experience with Cadence, ADS, and EM tools.