Elveo
Senior RF/Electrical Engineer
Chantilly, VA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 5, 2025
- Experience
- 8+ years of RF/EE experience; 7+ years working on projects doing design, integration, or test of space hardware.
- Education
- A Bachelor’s degree or better in RF or Electrical Engineering.
- Visa sponsorship
- To comply with ITAR, applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or be eligible to obtain the necessary authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
About the job
Designs, analyzes, tests, and integrates RF and electrical communications payloads for nanosatellites and supports constellation network design.
What you'll do
- Design and support development of spacecraft payload hardware, software, and antenna technologies.
- Perform link budget, traffic and capacity analyses, RF system dimensioning, coverage and frequency planning, and interference analysis.
- Plan and support payload integration and testing, including ground and in-orbit communications performance testing.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or better in RF or Electrical Engineering.
- 8+ years of RF/EE experience.
- 7+ years of experience on projects involving design, integration, or test of space hardware.
- Experience working with Linux-based systems.
Nice to have
- Experience developing space payload hardware and software, preferably communications systems; hands-on experience with SDRs, antennas, FPGAs, GPUs, CPUs, SoCs, single-board computers, or microcontrollers.
- Programming proficiency in one or more languages such as C++, C, Python, or MATLAB; familiarity with VHDL or Verilog and Altera or Xilinx FPGAs.
Tools
software-defined radios, FPGAs, SoCs, Linux, C++, C, Python, MATLAB
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