Senior RF Engineer - Aerospace & Defense, Onsite

Chaos Industries; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k with company match

HSA/FSA

Life insurance

Free daily lunch

No meeting Fridays

Unlimited PTO

Relocation assistance

Annual bonuses

Job summary

CHAOS Industries seeks a Senior RF Engineer to design, analyze, integrate, and verify high‑reliability RF/microwave electronics for aerospace and defense. You will translate requirements into robust RF implementations, troubleshoot prototype hardware, and validate performance through lab and field experiments.

This on‑site role in Hawthorne, CA requires hands‑on work, strong RF fundamentals, and the ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering with 4+ years RF experience, or a Master’s with 3+ years.
• Hands‑on RF test equipment experience (VNAs, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, meters).
• Strong RF fundamentals: gain, noise figure, linearity, phase noise, impedance matching.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
• Experience with RF front‑end prototyping and integration.

Responsibilities

• Design, analyze, prototype, and tune RF circuit boards with catalog MMICs.
• Perform architecture development and component trade studies.
• Plan and execute RF testing and characterization at board/module levels.
• Contribute to RF test equipment, fixtures, and automation.
• Collaborate with systems, power, digital, mechanical, and software teams.
• Support design through production and field issues; conduct failure analysis.

Skills

RF Design

RF Testing

Lab Debugging

Team Collaboration

Security Clearance

Education

Bachelor in EE

Masters/PhD beneficial

Tools

VNAs

Spectrum Analyzers

HFSS

ADS

AWR

Altium

Job description

CHAOS Industries seeks a Senior RF Engineer to design, analyze, integrate, and verify high‑reliability RF/microwave electronics for aerospace and defense. You will translate requirements into robust RF implementations, troubleshoot prototype hardware, and validate performance through lab and field experiments.

This on‑site role in Hawthorne, CA requires hands‑on work, strong RF fundamentals, and the ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance.