Principal RF and Microwave Engineer

Echodyne Corp•Kirkland, WA

1d•$164,594 - $246,788

About The Position

Echodyne is seeking a Principal RF and Microwave Engineer to join its Advanced Technology Development team and lead forward-looking RF architecture, circuit development, rapid prototyping, and technology transition for future radar products. The role involves developing prototypes for sensing, internal RF calibration, modular RF hardware, and higher-power subsystems. The engineer will bring deep RF and microwave design experience, hands-on laboratory skills, sound judgment in uncertain development environments, and the ability to use measured evidence to guide product decisions. The position works with a cross-disciplinary team and has technical ownership over work that can transition into future radar products.

Requirements

Strong technical ownership of complex RF or microwave systems, subsystems, receiver chains, transmitter chains, or components.
Strong knowledge of RF and digital electronics, with hands-on experience across architecture, design, prototype bring-up, characterization, verification, and product transition.
Experience with advanced RF technologies such as receivers, analog-to-digital converters, downconverters, mixers, frequency synthesizers, clock distribution, or high-power amplifiers.
Experience defining RF requirements, interfaces, link or performance budgets, gain, noise figure, linearity, dynamic range, phase noise, stability, filtering, and impedance matching.
Hands-on experience with network and spectrum analyzers, signal sources, oscilloscopes, noise and phase-noise measurements, automated testing, and prototype troubleshooting.
Experience planning and executing fast-cycle investigations, trade studies, experiments, and prototype iterations that connect models to measured results.
Ability to communicate findings, risks, design limits, and recommendations clearly.
Competence with MATLAB and RF or electromagnetic simulation tools such as Ansys Electronics Desktop, HFSS, Keysight ADS, CST, or equivalent.
BS in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field and at least 8 years of relevant RF and microwave hardware development experience, or equivalent experience.
Eligibility to handle export-controlled technical data, including ITAR- and EAR-controlled information.

Nice To Haves

Experience developing RF or microwave hardware for radar, phased arrays, aerospace, defense, autonomous systems, or other high-reliability and mission-critical products.
Experience with dual-monopulse architectures, sub-aperture processing, tiled apertures, internal calibration, or radar-level calibration.
Experience evaluating emerging commercial technologies, suppliers, manufacturing processes, design-for-manufacturing constraints, or externally developed intellectual property.

Responsibilities

Lead RF and microwave architecture and development for advanced technology prototypes, critical technology investigations, and future Echodyne radar capabilities.
Design, model, build, and characterize receivers, transmitter and receiver modules, frequency-conversion chains, synthesizers, filters, amplifiers, and related microwave circuits.
Develop calibration architectures, measurement methods, and channel-correction approaches that improve radar performance and support efficient integration and test.
Use analysis, simulation, rapid prototyping, and testing to retire critical risk, establish design limits, and select credible paths to product adoption.
Collaborate with antenna, analog and mixed-signal, digital, FPGA, PCB, systems, mechanical, manufacturing, and other key stakeholders to deliver mission-critical solutions within challenging constraints.
Establish characterized RF baselines, reusable design guidance, interface definitions, test methods, and transition packages for product-development teams.