Lead RF PCB Layout Engineer (RF)

Location: Redwood City, California, United States; hybrid workplace. ITAR eligibility is required: U.S. citizenship, U.S. lawful permanent residence, protected individual status, or eligibility to obtain the necessary U.S. Department of State authorizations.

Salary: $160,000–$200,000 per year, with flexibility between salary and equity-based compensation.

Company

hirify.global designs and builds radar satellite systems that create high-resolution, real-time 3D maps of Earth for disaster response, infrastructure resilience, and mission-critical intelligence.

What you will do

• Own RF PCB layout from component placement through manufacturing release in Altium Designer.
• Define PCB stack-ups, controlled-impedance routing, grounding, shielding, and isolation strategies.
• Translate schematics and RF performance requirements into layouts covering connector launches, transitions, filtering, and protection circuitry.
• Collaborate with RF, electrical, antenna, mixed-signal, mechanical, and test engineers on constraints, design reviews, and first-pass risk reduction.
• Drive DFM/DFT requirements, documentation, and manufacturing release artifacts with fabrication and assembly partners.
• Support lab bring-up, RF characterization, qualification, and environmental testing from prototype through final hardware.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field with 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with PCB layout, fabrication, and release for RF or high-performance electronics.
• Experience with RF and microwave layouts, controlled-impedance routing, launches, transitions, grounding, shielding, and isolation.
• Strong understanding of coupling, return paths, leakage, spurious paths, and stability risks in layout-driven RF behavior.
• Experience with manufacturing release, DFM/DFT, and collaboration with fabrication and assembly partners.
• Strong teamwork, communication, self-direction, accountability, and ability to work under significant time constraints.

Nice to have

• Experience with Allegro or OrCAD.
• Experience with EM and RF analysis workflows such as HFSS, CST, or ADS Momentum.
• Experience troubleshooting VNA, spectrum analyzer, and system-test results.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work in Redwood City, California.
• Competitive compensation with flexibility between salary and equity-based compensation.
• Opportunity to build end-to-end satellite hardware for real-time Earth observation.
• Work spanning applications including autonomy, telecommunications, disaster relief, climate science, defense, construction, and gaming.

Hiring process

• Interviews are conducted via Google Meet.
• The typical process takes approximately 2–4 weeks from start to finish.