Senior RF Systems Engineer — Sensing, Radar & Satcom

Kymeta-Corp; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plans

Vision plan

Dental plan

401k

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Kymeta is seeking a Senior RF Systems Engineer in the Redmond, WA area to lead RF sensing, radar, satellite communications, and spectrum awareness initiatives. You will collaborate with systems, software, FPGA, and customer teams to turn operational requirements into deployable RF capabilities through fast prototyping and field demonstrations.

You will analyze RF data, define performance specs, and integrate RF, FPGA, and software platforms, including SDROIP transport and VITA 49 standards.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of RF engineering experience in communications, radar, sensing, defense, aerospace, or related discipline.
• Strong understanding of RF receiver and transmitter architectures, frequency conversion, filtering, digitization, timing, synchronization, and calibration.
• Experience with SDR platforms and digital receiver architectures.
• Experience integrating RF systems with FPGA-based platforms.
• Understanding of IF digitization techniques and digital transport of RF data.
• Familiarity with VITA 49, digital IF, RF over IP, or similar RF transport architectures.
• Experience with satellite communications, radar systems, RF sensing systems, electronic warfare systems, geolocation systems, or spectrum monitoring systems.
• Strong proficiency with RF test equipment including spectrum analyzers, signal generators, vector network analyzers, oscilloscopes, and digitizers.
• Experience with MATLAB and Python for RF analysis, automation, and data visualization.
• Experience operating within Linux-based development and test environments.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work directly with customers, partners, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• U.S. citizenship required
• Active security clearance preferred

Responsibilities

• Serve as the RF technical lead for advanced applications involving RF sensing, radar, satellite communications, spectrum awareness, and related technologies
• Develop RF architectures and signal chains supporting sensing, communications, and radar applications
• Support integration of electronically steered antennas, software-defined radioplatforms, digitizers, FPGA-based processing systems
• Define RF performance requirements including sensitivity, dynamic range, noise figure, interference mitigation, signal quality, and system calibration
• Develop approaches for IF digitization, digital receiver architectures, and RF data transport within distributed sensing systems
• Collaborate with FPGA and software engineers to implement digital signal transport and processing architectures utilizing standards such as VITA 49 and related RF over IP frameworks
• Support development and integration of modem-centric and sensor-centric processing architectures
• Evaluate, select, and integrate commercial and government RF technologies including SDRs, digitizers, timing systems, RF sensors, converters, and signal processing platforms
• Develop and execute laboratory characterization, integration testing, calibration activities, and field demonstrations
• Analyze collected RF and system performance data to identify deficiencies, troubleshoot issues, and improve operational effectiveness
• Lead RF measurement activities utilizing spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzers, signal generators, digitizers, and other laboratory instrumentation
• Support integration of geolocation, interference detection, spectrum monitoring, and RF situational awareness capabilities
• Collaborate with systems, software, and customer teams to transform operational requirements into deployable RF solutions
• Support proposal development, customer engagements, technical briefings, and technology roadmap activities
• Ability to travel10%

Skills

RF engineering

SDR platforms

FPGA integration

MATLAB

Python

Linux

RF test equipment

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering / physics

Tools

Spectrum analyzers

Vector network analyzers

Oscilloscopes

Digitizers

Job description

Kymeta is seeking a Senior RF Systems Engineer in the Redmond, WA area to lead RF sensing, radar, satellite communications, and spectrum awareness initiatives. You will collaborate with systems, software, FPGA, and customer teams to turn operational requirements into deployable RF capabilities through fast prototyping and field demonstrations.

You will analyze RF data, define performance specs, and integrate RF, FPGA, and software platforms, including SDROIP transport and VITA 49 standards.