Antenna Design Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: On-site in Redwood City, California, United States. U.S. citizenship or permanent residency is required for ITAR-related work.

Salary: $150,000–$300,000 per year, with flexibility between salary and equity-based compensation.

Company

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

What you will do

• Design, simulate, and optimize patch antennas, microstrip arrays, and phased arrays for spaceborne radar payloads.
• Define antenna requirements and coordinate interfaces with spacecraft and payload subsystems.
• Perform electromagnetic simulations using HFSS, CST, ADS, and related tools.
• Prototype, measure, and validate antenna systems in laboratories, range environments, and anechoic chambers.
• Support antenna bring-up, integration, verification, and flight-environment testing.
• Evaluate link budgets and system performance, and develop manufacturing and test procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of industry or research experience in antenna or RF systems engineering.
• Experience with antenna design, simulation, and measurement tools such as HFSS, CST, ADS, and MATLAB.
• Knowledge of transmission line theory, impedance matching, and RF system design.
• Proficiency with laboratory equipment including vector network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and signal generators.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, or otherwise eligible for required ITAR authorizations.

Nice to have

• Master’s or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• Experience with LEO satellite or aerospace antenna systems.
• Hands-on experience with phased arrays, beamforming networks, RF calibration, or over-the-air testing.
• Familiarity with mechanical packaging, thermal constraints, EMC/EMI, RF materials, and space manufacturing constraints.
• Exposure to software-defined radios and digital beamforming.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, iterative engineering environment.
• Close collaboration with RF, mechanical, thermal, systems, and production engineers.
• Competitive compensation with high flexibility between salary and equity.
• Work focused on building a real-time, high-resolution Earth-observation satellite constellation.

Hiring process

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