Principal RF Engineer

Heaviside Industries, Inc.•Marina del Rey, CA

2d•$185,000 - $225,000

About The Position

Heaviside Industries builds multi-domain autonomous precision munitions for U.S. and allied special operations and conventional forces. While modern warfare has rapidly evolved with the proliferation of unmanned systems, hyper-precise munitions in contested environments are the future of the battlefield. Economical precision strike capabilities are critical to U.S. and allied war efforts, enabling successful defeat of enemy military assets and infrastructure. Heaviside builds precision munitions designed to operate in GPS-denied and spectrum-jammed battlefields—where traditional systems degrade or fail—without inflated prices or sacrifice to performance. All engineering and manufacturing is conducted in-house in Heaviside’s Los Angeles, CA headquarters and Oslo, Norway office. Heaviside is backed by Interlagos, Menlo Ventures, Flume Ventures, Cantos, Anorak Ventures, and Ravelin Ventures.

Requirements

10+ year’s experience designing complex RF systems
Background in Electrical Engineering with a strong emphasis on electromagnetic, and/or RF theory or equivalent project work
Hands on experience designing, prototyping, bench-top bring-up and probe analysis of RF circuits
Deep experience working with debugging and RF analysis equipment
Demonstrable experience designing low size, weight and power RF circuit end products
Experience designing and bringing a new RF product from concept to market release as an individual contributor engineer
Must be an expert in multi-stage conversion chains including Local Oscillators (LO) synthesis and mixer optimization
Demonstrable experience designing RF products with Low Noise Amplifiers (LNA)and doing multistage cascade analysis
Hands on experience working simulation tools such as ADS, and other common industry software
Ability to engage technically with firmware, DSP and other software engineers to optimize the front-end interface
Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills to author technical proposals for customers
History of working with cross discipline engineering teams (mechanical, electrical, software).
Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Nice To Haves

Experience designing PCBs and PCB material sciences with Altium
Able to discuss in depth any at-home hardware projects current or past.
Proven ability to mentor more junior RF engineers.

Responsibilities

Design complex RF circuits for passive and active devices
Work with electrical engineering to prototype new RF product PCBs
Platform integration
Benchtop bring-up with RF and EMI/EMC test equipment
Field testing and results analysis
Create and execute verification and validation plans for complete product field testing
Plan new product and feature development plans and present them to stakeholders.
Assist with the transition from development to manufacturing
Work with customers to understand how to technically improve RF sub-system performance
Work with cross discipline engineering teams (mechanical, electrical, software)