Senior RF Engineer, Satellite Ground Stations

Northwood Space; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 226,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwood Space is seeking a Senior RF Electrical Engineer to design and own RF hardware for Prism, a 2.4-meter parabolic antenna for high-throughput satellite links. You will guide RF chains from architecture through prototype, characterization, and production, collaborating with hardware, software, and test teams to deliver field-ready hardware.

The role requires designing across multiple bands, performing system-level trades, and building RF circuits (LNAs, filters, PA, converters) while

Qualifications

• BS degree in electrical engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of RF design experience across circuits, filters, or antennas.
• Experience taking RF hardware from design through bring-up, characterization, and debug in the lab.
• Comfort with RF test equipment including network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, noise figure analyzers, and power meters.

Responsibilities

• Design RF electronics hardware for Prism and iterate on existing Prism hardware to improve reliability, performance, and manufacturability.
• Own RF line-up design for Prism's receive and transmit chains, balancing gain, noise figure, linearity, output power, and blocker/interference tolerance.
• Design and trade RF architectures that support Prism's multiple frequency bands, including band switching, filtering, and shared signal paths.
• Create electromagnetic simulation models of Prism hardware (amplifiers, filters, PCB layout) to design and evaluate performance.
• Build RF circuits for Prism (LNAs, filters, power amplifiers, frequency converters) and support circuitry (power, digital control), and characterize their performance.

Skills

RF design

LNA design

RF test equipment

EM simulation

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering

Tools

Network analyzers

Spectrum analyzers

Signal generators

Noise figure analyzers

Power meters

Job description

Northwood Space is seeking a Senior RF Electrical Engineer to design and own RF hardware for Prism, a 2.4-meter parabolic antenna for high-throughput satellite links. You will guide RF chains from architecture through prototype, characterization, and production, collaborating with hardware, software, and test teams to deliver field-ready hardware.

The role requires designing across multiple bands, performing system-level trades, and building RF circuits (LNAs, filters, PA, converters) while