Principal RF Design Engineer

Echodyne Corp • Kirkland, WA

75d • $159,800 - $239,600

About The Position

Echodyne is seeking a Principal RF Design Engineer to join our fast-growing team. In this role, you will lead the maturation and sustainment of RF subsystems for advanced radar systems, ensuring technical excellence and fostering strong cross-functional collaboration. You will own design, verification, transition to manufacturing, and long-term sustainment of RF subsystems, serving as the primary technical point of contact for all related engineering activities. This includes driving design-shaping discussions and technical reviews with multidisciplinary teams—such as Systems, Software, Mechanical, and Manufacturing—to develop robust radar architectures, resolve complex technical challenges, and align work with program objectives and Design for Excellence (DFX) principles. You will provide deep technical expertise in RF circuit design, simulation, and analysis to guide design execution, verification planning, and risk mitigation. Additionally, you will define and architect production test strategies and supporting infrastructure to enable efficient, reliable manufacturing and quality assurance. Throughout the product lifecycle, you will lead root-cause investigations, trade studies, and continuous improvement initiatives to sustain and enhance subsystem performance. Other related tasks required to fulfill the needs of the business.

Requirements

• Demonstrated Technical Leadership and Ownership of Area of Responsibility (AOR).
• Ability to act as the primary technical authority for RF systems, subsystems, or components.
• Experience developing solutions, driving trade studies, and delivering designs across the full product lifecycle.
• Experience coordinating and facilitating multidisciplinary technical reviews.
• Experience defining, prioritizing, and communicating technical objectives and work plans.
• Experience implementing designs with design-for-test (DFT), design-for-manufacturing (DFM), and design-for-assembly (DFA) principles.
• Capable of leading process improvement initiatives, such as root-cause analyses.
• Background in the engineering of RF Printed Circuit Assemblies.
• Experience with RF transmitter and receiver module design and analysis.
• Experience designing High-Reliability commercial or consumer RF hardware.
• Experience developing RF hardware architectures for fielded products.
• Experience with the development of detailed RF transceiver designs.
• Expert in RF Chain/Cascade Development & Analysis for heterodyne receivers.

Nice To Haves

• Understanding of the significance of low phase noise synthesizer design, clock synthesis & distribution.
• Experience creating designs using components such as power amplifiers, driver amplifiers, digitally controlled phase-shifters & attenuators.
• Experience with design and analysis of RF circuits in a full-wave simulation suite such as HFSS/CST.

Responsibilities

• Lead the maturation and sustainment of RF subsystems for advanced radar systems.
• Own design, verification, transition to manufacturing, and long-term sustainment of RF subsystems.
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for all related engineering activities.
• Drive design-shaping discussions and technical reviews with multidisciplinary teams.
• Develop robust radar architectures and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Align work with program objectives and Design for Excellence (DFX) principles.
• Provide deep technical expertise in RF circuit design, simulation, and analysis.
• Define and architect production test strategies and supporting infrastructure.
• Lead root-cause investigations, trade studies, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Benefits

• Incentive stock options
• Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage benefits for employee and family members
• Unlimited vacation, 12 paid sick days, and 9 paid holidays
• Company paid disability, life insurance, employee assistance program and travel insurance
• 401k Plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees