Senior RF Test Engineer
Full Time $135,000 - $175,000 / yearJob Overview
As a Senior RF Test Engineer, your core responsibility will be to own RF test strategy for all wireless products at Impulse, define the roadmap for future test needs, and drive cross-team alignment. You will work with RF engineers, RF software engineers, mechanical engineers, and others to meet test needs across a wide range of capabilities. You will work on uplink and downlink radios up to 32GHz, GNSS receivers, desense testing, antennas, and coexistence testing.
Responsibilities
- Work with a cross-disciplinary team to define and implement RF test requirements, implement RF test software architecture, and design and build RF test hardware fixtures.
- Design RF acceptance criteria for flight readiness
- Implement scripts to control RF test equipment including spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, antenna test infrastructure, power meters, power supplies, and other devices.
- Design and implement fixtures to test design compatibility with GNSS constellations and ground station infrastructure
- Work with hardware and software engineers to prepare testing for radiation and ground station test programs
- Generate key performance indicator matrices to plan testing for RF products
- Work with ground software teams to develop and test satellite to ground data pipelines
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related technical field
- Experience writing automation scripts for RF hardware test
- Ability to work in the lab with RF equipment including spectrum analyzers, signal generators, network analyzers, GNSS simulators, and software defined radios
- Proficient in testing and troubleshooting RF devices
- 5+ years writing Python, LabView, TILE, or other test software
- Strong understanding of RF system parameters such as channel power, EVM, modulation, Es/N0, C/N0, and bandwidth
- Experience writing and documenting RF test procedures for use by other engineers and technicians
- Familiarity working with embedded Linux
- Strong software debugging skills
- RF Hardware debugging skills