CX2
RF Hardware Engineer
$160K–$200K
El Segundo, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Feb 3, 2026
- Experience
- No minimum years specified; 5+ years’ experience with EW subsystems and payloads is listed as a bonus.
- Education
- BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. Person. For ITAR compliance, applicants must be a U.S. Citizen, Green Card holder, or eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.
About the job
Designs, integrates, tests, and delivers RF payload subsystems and validates their performance.
What you'll do
- Design, integrate, test, and validate antennas, RF front ends, and SDRs; analyze RF performance metrics.
- Own requirements, ICDs, and verification from concept through delivery.
- Track and incorporate advances in SDRs, RF systems, RF machine learning, and PNT.
What they ask for
- BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Antenna and receiver design across analog/RF/mixed-signal domains, including mixers, PLLs/LOs, and gain/linearity/noise trades.
- Knowledge of channelizers and wideband architectures, including filter banks, conversion, sample-rate planning, and synchronization.
- Must be a U.S. Person and able to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
Nice to have
- PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years’ experience with EW subsystems and payloads.
Pay
USD 160,000–200,000 per year base salary
Tools
SDRs, MATLAB, Python, C++, ADS/AWR/SystemVue, MATLAB/Simulink, GNU Radio/SDR (USRP/RFSoC), VITA-49
AI focus
The role tracks advances in RF machine learning; bonus work includes RF machine learning for emitter identification, modulation/classification, anomaly detection, and PDW creation.
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