Astranis
Senior RF/Communication Systems Engineer
$170K–$280K
San Francisco +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 11, 2024
- Location
- San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 7+ years of experience.
- Education
- Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.
- Visa sponsorship
- U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent residency, or refugee/asylee status required.
About the job
Architect, design, and model satellite communication payloads and radio systems, including system trade studies, radio technology development, and communications signal-processing design and testing.
What you'll do
- Own architectural trade studies and establish system- and unit-level requirements analytically or via simulation.
- Lead R&D for radio features, technologies, and custom components; design and test communications signal-processing algorithms.
- Collaborate with design teams and assist with recruiting, interviewing, and hiring.
What they ask for
- Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.
- Strong fundamentals in signals and systems and digital communications; familiarity with hardware components and their impairments or limitations.
- Comfort testing radio hardware in a lab and triaging and debugging testing issues.
- Comfortable developing software in Python and some C/C++; RF system design and budgeting.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with satellite radio systems, satellite waveforms and modems, or radio characterization testing.
- Experience with GNU Radio, git, fixed-point or multi-rate signal processing, multi-antenna systems, or DSSS modem design.
Pay
$170,000 — $280,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, C/C++, git, GNU Radio, DVB-S2/x, DVB-RCS2
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