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Senior Electrical Engineer - SDR Hardware Design
You will be responsible for the design, qualification, and test of custom software defined radios for Astranis satellites. You will work closely with RTL, Comms, and RF design teams to help design the best possible radio systems for our payload and TTC systems.
Your responsibilities
- Work with state of the art FPGAs
- Design and test high speed digital SERDES interface
- Characterize and optimize wide bandwidth data converter performance
- Identify devices that satisfy performance requirements
- Design and layout highspeed digital PCBs
- Test and validate full radio signal chain
- Work cross-functionally to integrate systems into different spacecrafts
What you need
- 5-10+ years of experience
- B.S. or M.S. in electrical or computer engineering, or equivalent technical degree
- Experience with digital communications theory and measurement
- Comfortable working with full RF signal chain
- Experience with RF test equipment (VNA, Spectrum analyzer, Signal generator)
- Demonstrated ability to personally design, build, and test hardware from scratch
- Experience with Altium or similar EDA tools
- Experience with PCB design
- Strong analog/mixed-signal circuit design skills
- A passion for hardware development, including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development
Nice to have
- Experience using state of the art wideband programmable data converters
- Experience designing high speed clock trees
- Experience designing systems for high reliability (Aerospace/defense or automotive)
- Familiarity with radio nonidealities (HD, IMD, IQ imbalance, gain ripple, group delay distortion)
- Experience with Python for measurement automation and data analysis
Compensation
Base salary: $175,000 to $240,000 USD. Your compensation also includes equity via incentive stock options, company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance, 401(k) retirement planning, flexible PTO, and free on-site catered meals.
Requirements
U.S. Citizenship, Lawful Permanent Residency, or Refugee/Asylee Status Required. To comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States, or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).