Senior RF Engineer II (Hardware)
About The Position
Neros is a defense technology company that designs and manufactures unmanned systems. The Senior RF Engineer II (Hardware) owns technical direction and final sign-off for RF hardware implementation across Neros products involving wireless links. The role ensures link budgets, cascade analysis, spectral performance, subsystem-level requirements, and validation strategies are technically sound before programs move forward. It serves as the company’s deepest RF hardware technical resource for complex connectivity performance issues and guides responsible engineers across platforms as they implement and validate wireless systems. The position models, simulates, and validates RF architectures; drives root cause analysis for complex RF and connectivity issues; and shapes RF architecture, component selection, and implementation trade-offs. It also sets direction for verification, validation, and production testing, and provides technical guidance to responsible engineers and cross-functional teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) required.
- At least 8 years of professional experience in RF hardware design, RF systems engineering, or wireless product development.
- Expert-level ability to build, review, and defend link budgets, cascade analysis, receiver sensitivity analysis, spectral performance analysis, and RF subsystem requirements.
- Proven expertise using RF/system simulation tools such as SystemVue, HFSS, ADS, MATLAB, Simulink, or similar for architecture, PCB, antenna, fixture, and system-level analysis.
- Deep knowledge of RF hardware architecture, radio standards, antennas, component selection, filtering, gain planning, noise, linearity, and system-level trade-offs.
- Demonstrated experience serving as a technical authority or final design reviewer for complex RF hardware implementations.
- Strong understanding of verification, validation, production acceptance testing, DFM, and DFT.
Nice To Haves
- Master of Science or PhD in Electrical Engineering, preferably focused on RF/microwaves, electromagnetics, communications, or a related field.
- Extensive experience using SystemVue, ADS, and HFSS to make product architecture decisions, not just run isolated simulations.
- Experience with antenna integration, embedded wireless products, desense, coexistence, EMI/EMC, and mechanical/RF coupling.
- Experience defining production RF acceptance tests, tuning strategy, yield monitoring, and manufacturing feedback loops.
- Experience acting as final technical reviewer or principal engineer across multiple products, platforms, or programs.
Responsibilities
- Own final technical sign-off for RF hardware implementations across Neros products involving wireless links.
- Review and approve link budgets, cascade analysis, spectral performance, and RF subsystem-level requirements.
- Set technical direction for how responsible engineers implement, verify, validate, and production-test RF hardware systems.
- Use SystemVue, HFSS, ADS, MATLAB, Simulink, and related tools to model, simulate, and validate RF architectures.
- Drive root cause analysis for complex RF and connectivity performance issues, including interference, desense, link margin, spectral compliance, and system-level coexistence.
- Propose, model, and validate RF architectural decisions, component selections, and implementation trade-offs across platforms.
- Provide deep technical guidance to responsible engineers and cross-functional teams so design proposals are technically sound before execution.
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Neros' total compensation package.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
