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RF Engineer

Red Oak Technologies
Englewood, CO Full Time
POSTED ON 1/20/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/20/2025

Red Oak Technologies is a leading provider of comprehensive resourcing solutions across a variety of industries and sectors including IT, Marketing, Finance, Business Operations, Manufacturing and Engineering.

Our client is a large aerospace company. They are looking for a RF ENGINEER to join their team. This role is a DIRECT HIRE / FULL TIME position. Position will be ONSITE . Position will be working onsite at Englewood, CO.

  • Onsite
  • Direct Hire / Full Time Employment / Permanent
  • Senior and Principal roles open
  • Relocation Available

Job Description :

We are looking for a talented RF Engineer with 4 years of experience.

RF Engineers work closely with our technology partners for detailed assessment of link budgets, coverage capabilities, and target satellite capabilities. The ideal candidate looks for opportunities to support satellite manufacturing at scale through detailed and automated analyses of RF performance that enable proliferation and reuse of RF systems.

As an RF engineer, you will experience the full RF system life cycle from proposal to on-orbit commissioning, with a mixture of hands-on hardware activities and at the desk analysis activities.

RESPONSIBILITIES :

  • Act as an organization-wide resource for low-level RF physics & communications theory expertise.
  • Ensure, through analysis, that core RF system products meet customer requirements and objectives.
  • Perform RF analysis to define vendor requirements for RF system hardware.
  • Support company manufacturing-at-scale objectives by means of enabling cost-effective and robust RF systems.
  • Verify and support RF link compatibility.
  • Support of on-orbit RF link anomaly resolution & commissioning activities
  • Verification / characterization of on-orbit RF link performance
  • Support RF vendor milestone reviews & non-conformance disposition
  • Support customer PDR, CDR, etc. milestone presentations.
  • Improve fidelity of existing RF analysis tools and implement new ones.
  • Perform antenna co-interference simulations using 3D EM software tools.
  • Support incremental improvement of core RF system products, balancing between manufacturability, low-cost, and next-generation market requirements.
  • Support RF AIT through non-conformance disposition, as-run review, and master test procedure / plan reviews.
  • Support and shape RF system CONOPs to enable the mission.
  • Support proposal work, estimate data throughputs, and support trades (cost / schedule / performance) at various levels of proposal maturities.
  • Support team peer-reviews and ensure team deliverables are held to a high standard.
  • May require some travel to support testing and launch.
  • MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS :

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, RF Engineering, or Wireless Communications related disciplines
  • Industry experience in RF Systems design & analysis, preferably for spacecraft applications
  • Ability to do a point-to-point space to ground link budget.
  • Understand space-to-ground and space-to-space communications architectures, with a firm understanding of analog (antenna, amplifiers, filters, etc.) and digital (SDR, modulation, coding) domains.
  • Familiarity with commonly used satellite modulation and coding standards, (CCSDS, DVB-S2, etc.)
  • Moderate familiarity with common RF test equipment (VNA, Spectrum Analyzer, etc.)
  • Moderate ability to script (Python, MATLAB, Shell, etc.) in both Windows & Linux environments
  • Desire to work in a fast-paced team environment and to mentor more junior engineers.
  • Ability to perform under deadline : accountable and self-driven.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Organized and a decent multitasker across multiple projects.
  • Detail-orientated and data- driven.
  • Must have, or a willingness to obtain, a DoD Security Clearance
  • Red Oak Technologies is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. See what it’s like to be at the top; connect with one of our recruiters and apply today.

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