Sr. Microwave Systems Engineer, Project Kuiper

Overview

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

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Role

As a Sr. Microwave Engineer, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary team to conceive and design innovative product solutions. You will work closely with colleagues throughout Project Kuiper’s inter-disciplinary team, and engage third party suppliers, in order to drive key aspects of product definition, execution and optimization. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within a collaborative and fast-paced environment.

As a member of the team, you will be responsible for developing microwave/RF subsystems for use in space.

Responsibilities

• Decompose system level requirements into radio specs. Design and develop a solution that meets these requirements.
• Design, develop and optimize a Ka/K band radio solution for use in space from antenna to baseband.
• Simulate and optimize RF circuits, perform schematic capture, and oversee PCB layout.
• Build up test bench for design verification.
• Evaluate and optimize design in the lab to demonstrate design meets with system requirements.
• Work with RF system, power, software, mechanical engineering, baseband, and compliance teams to ensure solution integrates with overall objectives.

Export Control Requirement

Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, or related discipline, or 7+ years of equivalent relevant experience
• Experience coordinating amongst diverse disciplines (software, production, reliability) to drive full-lifecycle system development
• Experience with RF/microwave design expertise in Poweramp, Low Noise, frequency converter or oscillator design for commercial or military communications receivers, transmitters and sub-systems up to V-band.
• Experience with analog, digital and mixed mode circuit design and layout.
• Understanding of digital communications theory
• Ability to plan, direct, and manage project work.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in electrical engineering and 10 years of industry experience in RF/microwave circuits or communication theory
• Experience performing analysis and simulation of communication systems including link budgets
• Thorough understanding of RF passive and active components and circuitry Knowledge of digital communication systems, spread spectrum, forward error correcting codes (FEC), single and multi-carrier techniques, modulation types such as PSK, APSK, QAM, OFDM
• Understanding of electromagnetic propagation and antenna systems
• RF/microwave design using ADS, HFSS, AWR Microwave Office
• Experience with the design and integration of RF systems consisting of radio transmitters and receivers, LNAs, PAs, couplers, filters, etc.
• Experience with RF test equipment, such as spectrum analyzers and network analyzers
• Experience mentoring engineers in engineering best-practices and domain-specific technical principles
• Comfortable communicating deeply technical topics to a wide variety of audiences
• Ability to lead projects across departments, create and maintain project schedules, and ensure that projects are completed on time and within budget
• Technical leadership skills and communication skills, ability to create clarity across technical stakeholder and customer teams
• Working knowledge of space environments and the process to space qualify a communication flight unit.
• Familiarity with hybrid microelectronics for space applications and MIL-PRF-38534

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