Senior RF Engineer II (Hardware)

Location: Torrance, California, United States

Salary: $225,000–$315,000 USD annually; base salary only, with equity grants considered part of total compensation.

Company

hirify.global is a defense technology company designing and manufacturing high-performance unmanned systems to rebuild the American drone industrial base.

What you will do

• Own final technical sign-off for RF hardware implementations across products involving wireless links.
• Review and approve link budgets, cascade analysis, spectral performance, and RF subsystem requirements.
• Set technical direction for RF hardware implementation, verification, validation, and production testing.
• Model, simulate, and validate RF architectures using SystemVue, HFSS, ADS, MATLAB, Simulink, and related tools.
• Lead root cause analysis for interference, desense, link margin, spectral compliance, and system-level coexistence issues.
• Guide component selection, RF architectural trade-offs, and cross-functional design reviews across platforms.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering required; 8+ years of professional experience in RF hardware design, RF systems engineering, or wireless product development.
• Expert ability to build, review, and defend link budgets, cascade analysis, receiver sensitivity analysis, spectral performance analysis, and RF subsystem requirements.
• Proven expertise with RF and system simulation tools such as SystemVue, HFSS, ADS, MATLAB, Simulink, or similar.
• Deep knowledge of RF hardware architecture, radio standards, antennas, component selection, filtering, gain planning, noise, linearity, and system-level trade-offs.
• Experience serving as a technical authority or final design reviewer for complex RF hardware implementations.
• Strong understanding of verification, validation, production acceptance testing, DFM, and DFT.

Nice to have

• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering focused on RF/microwaves, electromagnetics, communications, or a related field.
• Extensive SystemVue, ADS, or HFSS experience used for product architecture decisions.
• Experience with antenna and platform integration, embedded wireless products, desense, coexistence, EMI/EMC, and mechanical/RF coupling.
• Production RF experience covering acceptance tests, tuning strategy, yield monitoring, and manufacturing feedback loops.
• Technical leadership as a final reviewer or principal engineer across multiple products, platforms, or programs.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, hands-on startup environment focused on moving capabilities from design to deployment.
• Work on unmanned systems tested in combat and produced at scale for defense applications.
• Highly competitive equity grants are part of the total compensation package.
• Equal opportunity employment is provided without regard to protected characteristics.