Chaos Industries
Senior Staff Antenna Engineer
$237K–$264K
El Segundo, California, United States +1 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Location
- El Segundo, California, United States
Los Angeles, California, United States - Experience
- 10+ years of antenna engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- U.S. citizenship is required. Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance; an active clearance is preferred.
About the job
Designs, analyzes, integrates, and tests antennas and RF front ends for radar, electronic warfare, and sensing systems, from architecture through qualification and production.
What you'll do
- Lead antenna and RF front-end development, including phased arrays and AESA systems, from architecture through integration and qualification.
- Model, test, and validate antennas; correlate predictions with measured performance and support prototype builds and field integration.
- Work across engineering disciplines to deliver integrated designs, provide technical guidance, and resolve technical risks.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
- 10+ years of antenna engineering experience in radar, EW, or related RF sensing applications.
- Experience designing phased arrays and RF front ends, including element design, scan performance, mutual coupling, sidelobe control, polarization, calibration, and beamforming.
- Hands-on experience with electromagnetic simulation, antenna measurement, model-to-test correlation, and integration with beamforming electronics, radomes, structures, and thermal systems.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, or a related field.
- Experience with digital or adaptive beamforming, multifunction or conformal arrays, ruggedized antennas, or production test.
Pay
$237k-264k (base salary)
Tools
HFSS, CST, MATLAB, Python, TCDA, Vivaldi
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