Senior RF Design & Test Engineer — Clearance Eligible

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 241,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Top-tier benefits

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks a Senior RF Design and Test Engineer to join the Electrical Engineering Design team. You will collaborate with electrical, mechanical, and systems teams to deliver RF hardware that meets performance and regulatory requirements.

The role emphasizes RF circuit/antenna design, validation, and compliance with military and commercial standards. Travel up to 10% and eligibility for clearance are required.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with military and commercial communication system compliance standards.
• Experience with SAR/military RF exposure limits and their impact on antenna design.

Responsibilities

• Ensure RF designs comply with military and commercial standards and support spectrum certification processes.
• Evaluate designs against RF exposure limits and coordinate testing.
• Assess coexistence and desense between onboard radios and mitigate interference.
• Bench and chamber test RF hardware and antennas to validate performance.
• Collaborate with EMC and mechanical teams to root-cause failures across RF/electrical domains.
• Design RF circuits, including front-ends, amplifiers, and filters, with system-level RF analysis.
• Design and integrate antennas and arrays balancing RF and mechanical constraints.
• Support GPS/GNSS receiver design and integration with active antenna bias circuits.
• Model RF/antenna performance using 3D EM tools and S-parameter analysis.
• Review schematics/CAD for RF performance and manufacturability.
• Willingness to travel up to 10% and eligibility for security clearance.

Skills

Compliance standards

SAR exposure

Coexistence/desense

RF bench tools

Antenna testing

RF circuits design

GPS/GNSS

3D EM simulation

Schematic/CAD review

Tools

VNA

Spectrum Analyzer

Signal Generator

Ansys HFSS

Altair FEKO

CST Studio Suite

Job description

Anduril Industries seeks a Senior RF Design and Test Engineer to join the Electrical Engineering Design team. You will collaborate with electrical, mechanical, and systems teams to deliver RF hardware that meets performance and regulatory requirements.

The role emphasizes RF circuit/antenna design, validation, and compliance with military and commercial standards. Travel up to 10% and eligibility for clearance are required.