Senior RF Systems Architect End-to-End Space Communications

Airbus Ventures; El Segundo (CA); Hybrid; USD 228,000 - 279,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health, dental, vision

Retirement plans

Job summary

CesiumAstro is seeking a highly skilled Communications Systems Architect to lead end‑to‑end solutions for customer missions and new business pursuits. You will own the complete communication system from mission needs through architecture, requirements, proposal, and transition to execution.

Successful candidates bring deep expertise in one or more communications disciplines and the breadth to balance performance, cost, and schedule while guiding multidisciplinary teams across RF, antennas,

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience developing complex communication systems, products, or payloads.
• Demonstrated deep technical expertise in at least one communications domain.
• Experience translating customer or mission objectives into system architectures and requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technical solutions from pursuit to execution.
• Define architectures spanning antennas, RF front ends, data conversion, digital processing, beamforming, and interfaces.
• Lead from technical depth while coordinating across RF, antenna, digital, FPGA, software, and systems teams.
• Translate mission needs into differentiated technical solutions with customers and BD.
• Lead architectural trades across performance, cost, schedule, risk, and scalability.
• Shape product strategy and identify opportunities to reuse existing technologies.
• Lead technical capture and proposals with architecture and technical content for competitive bids.
• Establish system-level requirements, interfaces, and verification approaches.

Skills

System architecture

Technical leadership

Customer engagements

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

CesiumAstro is seeking a highly skilled Communications Systems Architect to lead end‑to‑end solutions for customer missions and new business pursuits. You will own the complete communication system from mission needs through architecture, requirements, proposal, and transition to execution.

Successful candidates bring deep expertise in one or more communications disciplines and the breadth to balance performance, cost, and schedule while guiding multidisciplinary teams across RF, antennas,