Senior RF Engineer — Satellite Ground Terminals

Northwood Space Corp.; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwood Space Corp. is seeking a Senior RF Electrical Engineer to lead RF hardware design for Prism, a 2.4-meter parabolic antenna for high-throughput satellite links.

You’ll drive architecture, prototypes, and production with cross-functional teams across hardware, software, and test, delivering field-ready hardware. You will conduct system-level RF trades, model performance with electromagnetic simulations, and develop RF circuits (LNAs, filters, power amplifiers) and support circuitry.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s 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 such as network/spectrum analyzers, signal generators, noise figure analyzers, and power meters.

Responsibilities

• Design RF electronics hardware for Prism and iterate to improve reliability and manufacturability.
• Own RF line-up design for Prism's receive and transmit chains across bands.
• Trade RF architectures for multi-band support, including filtering and shared signal paths.
• Create EM models of Prism hardware to evaluate performance.
• Build RF circuits (LNAs, filters, PAs, frequency converters) and characterize them.

Skills

RF design experience

Lab bring-up & debugging

RF test equipment usage

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering

Tools

Network analyzers

Spectrum analyzers

Signal generators

Noise figure analyzers

Power meters

Job description

Northwood Space Corp. is seeking a Senior RF Electrical Engineer to lead RF hardware design for Prism, a 2.4-meter parabolic antenna for high-throughput satellite links.

You’ll drive architecture, prototypes, and production with cross-functional teams across hardware, software, and test, delivering field-ready hardware. You will conduct system-level RF trades, model performance with electromagnetic simulations, and develop RF circuits (LNAs, filters, power amplifiers) and support circuitry.