Sr. RF Engineer (Starlink)Active

The opportunity

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

What you'll do

  • Design, fabricate and characterize prototypes of antennas, feed systems and: RF front ends for next-generation phased arrays, gateways, and consumer wireless products

  • Create electromagnetic simulation models of hardware (antennas, filters, PCB: layout) to design and evaluate performance

  • Work in close collaboration with EE, ME, DSP and software engineers to design and validate RF systems

  • Create and test phased array alignment solutions

  • Rapidly develop design validation and production test solutions for our high-volume consumer products

  • Write automation software in python to interact with units under test, test: equipment, instrumentation, and documentation systems

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline
  • + years of professional RF experience with antennas or communication systems: (internship and extracurricular experience is applicable)
  • + years professional experience with radio test equipment such as spectrum: analyzers, vector signal analyzers, vector signal generators, and network analyzers
  • + years of professional programming experience in Python, C#, C++, or MATLAB
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