Senior Advanced RF Hardware Engineer (RF)

Location: <hirify.globalong>Woburn, MA, United States; U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a Top Secret security clearance.hirify.globalong>

Salary: $134,000–$184,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops advanced research and technology for defense, intelligence, and national security, including cyber, sensors, radar, sonar, communications, electronic warfare, and artificial intelligence.

What you will do

• Develop rapid-prototype RF solutions from free space to bits using COTS components and custom designs.
• Design, analyze, characterize, and debug complex RF, analog, mixed-signal, and electronic systems in a laboratory environment.
• Develop RF Hardware-in-the-Loop systems, surrogate builds, digital twins, and hardware modeling support platforms.
• Lead development of lab-based acquisition and control platforms for hardware testing and characterization.
• Represent the hardware team in interdisciplinary efforts involving system architecture and focused processor implementations.
• Prepare customer and stakeholder test events and contribute to proposals with technical approaches, BOM and cost estimates, and schedules.

Requirements

• <hirify.globalong>U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a Top Secret security clearance are required.hirify.globalong>
• BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 5 years of related experience, or MS with 3 years of related experience.
• Proven electrical circuit design expertise in RF, analog, or digital systems.
• hirify.globalong problem-solving skills and willingness to mentor junior engineering staff.
• Experience preparing and presenting technical material to customers and internal staff.
• Experience leading hardware efforts from concept through implementation while managing cost and scheduling requirements.

Nice to have

• Active Top Secret security clearance and hirify.globalong RF design or implementation experience, including system analysis and component characterization.
• Experience with FPGA forward and reverse engineering, RF electromagnetics, antenna modeling, OTA link-budget analysis, software-defined radios, and RFSOC platforms.
• Experience developing PCB-based designs and FPGA or embedded software for HWIL and surrogate systems.
• Experience with analog and RF simulation and modeling tools such as Spice, MATLAB/Simulink, or Microwave Office.
• DSP or other signal-processing experience and development of RF test software using MATLAB, Python, or C++ on Linux.
• Knowledge of PCB design and fabrication, induhirify.globaly-standard CAD tools, and digital/FPGA HDL tools such as Vivado, Quartus, or Simulink/HDL Coder.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment within a collaborative learning environment focused on deep technical understanding.
• Work supports defense, intelligence, national security, and advanced technology research.
• Employment requires compliance with national security clearance, export control, and other applicable legal requirements.
• Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodation available during the employment process.