RF Payload Systems Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Tempe, Arizona, United States; position is based in Tempe, AZ

Salary: $141,500.00–$224,000.00 annually. Specific locations in San Jose, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the New York City metropolitan area have a separate range of $176,000.00–$264,000.00 annually.

Company

hirify.global develops communications and space technologies for consumer, business, government, military, commercial, and defense applications.

What you will do

• Develop multi-function RF and space systems from concept through implementation in collaboration with customers and cross-functional hirify.global teams.
• Define requirements, develop architectures, establish interfaces, and support hardware implementation.
• Lead RF payload integration and test activities from unit level through spacecraft and system-level integration and testing.
• Design, troubleshoot, integrate, and verify RF hardware across PWA, module, unit, and system levels.
• Identify, pursue, capture, and complete high-priority opportunities supporting strategic growth goals.
• Serve as the technical RF interface to customers and mentor engineers on hardware integration and test practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, RF/Microwave Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience as an RF or Systems Engineer, including hands-on RF hardware design, troubleshooting, integration, and testing.
• Experience taking RF hardware through design, fabrication, assembly, integration, bring-up, debugging, ATP, qualification testing, and verification.
• Experience with RF payload integration and test campaigns from unit level through spacecraft/system-level integration and testing.
• Bench-level RF testing experience with network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, and noise figure/power meters.
• Working knowledge of RF circuit design and construction, including amplifiers, filters, mixers, switches, and interconnects.
• Experience diagnosing RF hardware failures through failure analysis and root-cause corrective-action processes.
• Familiarity with space-qualified RF hardware build standards, space payload and electronics design, EEE parts, reliability, materials and processes, and EMI/EMC requirements.
• Experience with system modeling, simulation, analysis, power and communication link budgets, requirements definition and flow-down, interface definition, system test design and execution, and risk tracking and burn-down.
• Proficiency with MATLAB, ADS, HFSS, and Genesys.
• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams across business development, systems, software, RF circuit design, FPGA/digital design, mechanical engineering, and manufacturing/production.
• Experience working directly with Government customers to develop system-level requirements and solutions, plus strong technical leadership and mentoring ability.
• Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain a United States Top Secret/SCI Clearance.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree.
• Understanding of model-based systems engineering and proficiency with MBSE software such as Cameo.
• Experience with satellite mission operations, including launch, in-orbit testing, and anomaly resolution.
• Experience with mission design and analysis tools such as STK.
• Experience taking products from concept through prototyping, launch, and operation.
• Leadership experience with space systems engineering teams and trade studies involving difficult technical problems.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a small group of cross-domain engineers on strategic space systems and critical defense programs.
• Collaborate with customers and engineering partners across a broad range of technical disciplines.
• Medical, financial, stock, and other benefits may be provided depending on the position.
• hirify.global promotes an inclusive, equal-opportunity workplace.