ALTEN Technology
RF Electrical Engineer
$140K–$160K
Mountain View, California +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, California
Irvine, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of hands-on RF hardware design and integration on production products.
- Education
- BS in Electrical Engineering or related field.
About the job
Own and improve wireless links across unmanned aircraft, docks, and portals, from RF architecture and hardware design through testing, certification, and field support.
What you'll do
- Define RF architecture and requirements, including radio selection, antenna placement, and link budgets; design and review RF front-end circuitry and PCB layout.
- Integrate antennas and resolve coexistence, interference, and desense issues across radios, compute, and power electronics.
- Characterize RF performance, define production testing, support certifications, and troubleshoot field connectivity issues.
What they ask for
- BS in Electrical Engineering or related field.
- 5+ years of hands-on RF hardware design and integration on production products.
- Strong RF fundamentals, including link budgets, matching, noise figure, antennas, and propagation; experience integrating cellular, GNSS, and/or ISM-band radios and mitigating coexistence.
- Proficiency with VNAs, spectrum analyzers, and RF simulation tools.
Nice to have
- UAV, aviation, or robotics experience; familiarity with C2 link and Remote ID/ADS-B requirements.
- MS in EE with RF/microwave focus; FCC/PTCRB and OTA chamber experience; Python or MATLAB for test automation and data analysis.
Pay
$140,000 - 160,000 USD base salary
Tools
LTE/5G, GNSS, ISM, Wi-Fi/BLE, ADS-B, Radar, ADS, HFSS
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