RF Hardware Engineer

Location

Torrance, CA

Employment Type

Full time

Department

RF

Compensation

• $120K – $170K • Offers Equity

Compensation at Northwood Space is based on role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary depending on job-related skills, education, experience, and technical expertise. In addition to base salary, Northwood Space offers long-term incentives such as company stock options and discretionary performance bonuses. Benefits include equity, comprehensive health care, flexible vacation, retirement savings plans, and opportunities for professional development.

About Northwood Space

Northwood is on a mission to build a data highway between earth and space and bring the benefits of space to the masses through innovations in space communications technologies. If you like building quickly and seeing your work deployed in locations around the globe with real impact, we want you at Northwood.

Role

As an RF Hardware Engineer you will be responsible for RF electronics design and performance. You will influence the overall ground network and portal design based on RF performance trades, and you will collaborate with many disciplines including electrical, RF, mechanical, manufacturing, and software engineers to create the best product from concept to production.

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.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or related engineering discipline.
• 0-4+ years of RF design experience, across circuits, filters, or antennas.

Preferred Experience and Skills

• RF line-up design, considering non-linearity, noise, output power, and blocker/jammer tolerance.
• Power amplifier, LNA, and filter design.
• Experience with design and bring-up of point of load converters and common digital interfaces such as I2C/SPI.
• Theory and testing related to EVM, Noise Figure, power handling metrics (IIP2, IMD), impedance matching, amplifier stability, and cascaded network analysis.
• Use of Python (or other language) for data analysis and test automation.

Additional Information

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Northwood Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Northwood Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Compensation Range: $120K - $170K