Senior RF Hardware Design Engineer for Space Communications

Northwood; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Flexible spending accounts

Time off (PTO)

Job summary

Northwood Space seeks an experienced Senior RF Hardware Engineer to design RF electronics for next-generation ground stations and to collaborate across electrical, RF, mechanical, manufacturing, and software teams from concept through production.

The role emphasizes RF performance trades, LNA/PA/filter design, and the ability to build and test RF circuits while supporting system-level integration and compliance requirements. A Top Secret clearance is required or pursued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of RF design experience across circuits, filters, or antennas.

Responsibilities

• Design RF electronics hardware for next generation products, and iterate on existing hardware to improve reliability, performance, and manufacturability.
• Create electromagnetic simulation models of hardware (amplifiers, filters, PCB layout) to design and evaluate performance.
• Build RF circuits (LNA’s, filters, power amplifiers) as well as support circuitry (power, digital control), and characterize their performance.
• Collaboration with hardware and software engineers to characterize and troubleshoot integrated RF system performance.

Skills

RF design experience

LNA design

Power amplifier design

Filter design

I2C/SPI interfaces

Python

EM simulation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Python

EM simulation

Job description

Northwood Space seeks an experienced Senior RF Hardware Engineer to design RF electronics for next-generation ground stations and to collaborate across electrical, RF, mechanical, manufacturing, and software teams from concept through production.

The role emphasizes RF performance trades, LNA/PA/filter design, and the ability to build and test RF circuits while supporting system-level integration and compliance requirements. A Top Secret clearance is required or pursued.