2026 Graduate - RF Engineer - Spaceflight Missions

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory•Laurel, MD

7d•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking an RF Engineer ready to take on new challenges with us as we develop RF systems and components for spaceflight missions. You will join a team of multi-disciplinary staff who develop, integrate, test, launch, and operate complex RF systems and the electronic building blocks that enable them. We provide our sponsors with world class performance, cost-effective and often first-of-their-kind RF systems operating reliably in extremely harsh space environments.

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical and/or Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
A passion for RF design, signal processing, communications, and wireless systems.
Willing and able to travel occasionally to sponsor and contractor sites.
Able to obtain an interim top secret security clearance by the start date and ultimately obtain a final top secret clearance.
Eligibility requirements include U.S. citizenship.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with RF design software and test equipment.
An active Secret or Top Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, integrate and test flight RF hardware operating at UHF through Ka-band, including software defined radios, antennas, solid-state power amplifiers and ultra-stable oscillators.
Perform analysis of electromagnetic wave propagation, scattering, multipactor and corona effects.
Support a wide set of terrestrial and space-based communications, radio-navigation, radio-metric, and remote sensing applications with novel and computationally efficient digital signal processing algorithms and environmentally robust hardware.
Work with mission-level systems engineers to establish communications requirements for a mission, design and build a telecommunications subsystems that meets these requirements, integrate the subsystem onto the spacecraft, and help launch and operate the mission.