Lead electromagnetic environmental effects engineering across complex aerospace systems and programs, providing technical leadership, system integration, verification, and analysis.
Develop, interpret, allocate, tailor, and flow down E3 requirements to all design levels; ensure requirements are clear, testable, and traceable.
Engage across all phases of the program lifecycle; communicate complex E3 concepts clearly and concisely to audiences that may be unfamiliar with E3 topics.
Prepare and deliver E3 content at internal and external design reviews, including discussion of issues, risks, mitigations, and compliance status.
Develop E3 design guidelines and best practices; create models and perform analyses on components, subsystems, and systems using EMI/EMC principles.
Lead the design of grounding schemes, chassis and harness shielding, EMI filters, and interface circuitry required to achieve EMC.
Develop, interpret, allocate, tailor, and flow down E3 requirements to all design levels; ensure requirements are clear, testable, and traceable.
Engage across all phases of the program lifecycle; communicate complex E3 concepts clearly and concisely to audiences that may be unfamiliar with E3 topics.
Prepare and deliver E3 content at internal and external design reviews, including discussion of issues, risks, mitigations, and compliance status.
Develop E3 design guidelines and best practices; create models and perform analyses on components, subsystems, and systems using EMI/EMC principles.
Lead the design of grounding schemes, chassis and harness shielding, EMI filters, and interface circuitry required to achieve EMC.
Requirements
Bachelor's in STEM
Master's in STEM
PhD in STEM
Nice to have: Electrical Engineering focus
Nice to have: defense and aerospace industry practices
Minimum Rate
$100,000 Annually
Maximum Rate
$245,000 Annually
Responsibilities
Perform RF, microwave, and/or high-speed analog and digital circuit and component design, simulation, development, and test.
Layout of RF/microwave/high-frequency lumped and distributed element circuits and printed circuit boards.
Conduct circuit-level analysis to determine performance.
Develop and document schematic drawings, test plans, test procedures and test reports.
Work with mission and spacecraft systems engineers, subsystem engineers, and project management in overall mission development and execution from concept to launch, including technical concept design, requirements definition, development phases, technical reviews, budget, and schedule development.
Requirements
BS or MS in Electrical Engineering or relevant technical field
In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in New Jersey is $70,500 - $129,500.
Responsibilities
Determine design approaches and parameters
Perform system analysis to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints
Utilize modeling tools and equipment to establish operating data, conduct experimental tests, and evaluate results
Select components and equipment based on analysis of specifications and reliability
Perform simulations and present design reviews to peer engineers
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Materials Engineering, Materials Science Engineering or related field
RF/Wireless design engineer focused on high power amplifier design for advanced wireless digital communication systems and electronic warfare systems.
Compensation
the salary range for this role in California is $111,500 - $207,500
Responsibilities
Develop high-power RF power amplifiers for fast-hopping military communications applications across L-band through C-band, with RF output power ranging from 8 W to 200 W.
Evaluate, select, characterize, and model RF transistor and amplifier technologies, including GaAs HBT, GaN HEMT, CMOS, and SiGe.
Design and simulate nonlinear, high-power RF systems using Keysight ADS and HFSS, including PCB parasitic extraction and electromagnetic analysis.
Design and deliver compact, high-performance RF modules for airborne and ground systems.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
Design RF and microwave modules from requirements and architecture through schematic capture, component selection, layout, bring-up, verification, qualification, and production release
Design active and passive RF circuits such as low-noise amplifiers, power amplifiers, filters and multiplexers, RF switches, limiters, couplers, attenuators, power detectors, and frequency-conversion stages
Develop RF front-end assemblies that meet gain, noise figure, output power, linearity, compression, efficiency, harmonic and spurious-emission, stability, isolation, and out-of-band rejection requirements
Perform circuit and electromagnetic analysis using tools such as Keysight ADS, Cadence AWR, HFSS, or CST, and correlate models with measured hardware performance
Create and review RF and mixed-signal PCB designs, including controlled-impedance routing, grounding, shielding, stack-up definition, power distribution, and placement of sensitive or high-power components
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Nice to have: Experience with RF front ends for airborne, defense, space, robotics, or other high-reliability systems
RF Engineer I - New Grad (R6108)
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Assist in RF hardware testing and qualification for autonomous aircraft systems.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
Execute documented RF test plans and procedures
Characterize RF modules and assemblies for S-parameters, gain and loss, output power, compression, harmonics and spurious emissions, isolation, rejection, noise figure, and receiver sensitivity
Set up and operate vector network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, power meters, oscilloscopes, noise-figure equipment, programmable power supplies, and related laboratory instruments
Calibrate measurement setups and characterize cables, adapters, attenuators, fixtures, and other sources of measurement error
Develop simple test fixtures, harnesses, interface adapters, and monitoring circuits; perform basic soldering and hardware rework when appropriate
Requirements
Bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, or a related technical field
Nice to have: Experience integrating GaN or GaAs power amplifiers, MMICs, LNAs, switches, limiters, frequency converters, or high-selectivity filter technologies
Nice to have: Experience designing for simultaneous transmit and receive operation, high-power RF, intermodulation control, adjacent-band rejection, or co-site interference and desense
Nice to have: Experience with Altium Designer and one or more RF or electromagnetic simulation environments such as ADS, AWR, HFSS, or CST
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