Senior RF Hardware Engineer

AnySignal•Los Angeles, CA

About The Position

AnySignal is developing the next generation of RF products and services for some of the most demanding space and defense missions. We’re building a flexible, high-performance platform that’s easy to deploy, monitor, and scale — enabling customers to bring advanced radio technologies to life faster than ever before. As a Senior RF Hardware Engineer on the hardware team, you will be responsible for owning the design, manufacture, test, and deployment of highly integrated RF devices used by a surging wave of space customers. You will work with a small team of software, hardware, and FPGA engineers to shepherd the product from initial design to vehicle integration, taking a full-stack approach to building robust space communications systems.

Requirements

5+ years of robust experience designing circuitry in RF bands across frontend and conversion chains
End-to-end PCB design experience, including schematic capture, layout, fabrication and assembly
Experience with electronic design and analysis tools such as Keysight ADS, Ansys HFSS, and Altium Designer
Excellent understanding of RF metrics such as S-parameters, P1dB, noise figure, channel power, and EVM
Excellent understanding of RF cascades, link budgets, and noise analysis
Experience with test instruments (oscilloscopes, power supplies, VNAs, spectrum analyzers)
Experience with low noise amplifiers, power amplifiers, mixers, ADCs/DACs, phased locked loops, oscillators, and filters

Nice To Haves

Experience building complex PCBs in Altium Designer
Experience selecting components for radiation-susceptible environments
Experience working with AD9361, Xilinx RFSoC, and similar digital-analog conversion interfaces
Solid experience soldering and reworking boards (0402 SMP components, QFN packages)
Experience performing communications link modeling and solid understanding of DSP fundamentals
Knowledge of antenna design, simulation, and measurement in near-field/far-field regimes
Experience working with high-PAPR signals and knowledge of DPD concepts

Responsibilities

Develop and own RF products across PCB, box, and integration levels
Own trades and analyses on new designs and question requirements
Bring up, troubleshoot, and qualify new designs
Collaborate with Supply Chain and Manufacturing teams to enable large-scale manufacture of products