RF/Electrical Engineer

Job Summary

Core Responsibilities

• Because Elveo is a small company, the RF/Electrical Engineer will be responsible for straddling engineering work in the domains of RF, electrical, mechanical, and software engineering.
• Support design of spacecraft payload hardware, including single-board computers, SDRs, FPGAs, SoCs, processors, LNAs, filters, amplifiers, etc., and software design and development.
• Support selection and design of nanosatellite antenna technologies
• Develop link budget analyses, simulations, traffic/capacity analysis, RF system design and dimensioning, coverage and frequency planning, etc.
• Support spacecraft payload integration, testing, delivery to launch and spacecraft bus partners/vendors.
• Designing and planning payload testing configurations on the ground when testing payload communications performance both in-lab and in-orbit.
• Interface with Systems Engineering team to inform constellation/network architecture and design based on RF communications payload performance.
• Bench level mechatronics work including testing, integration, assembly, programming and prototyping of electronics hardware and software.
• Some software-based Systems Engineering analysis.
• Supporting developing and maintaining technical documentation for payload design and development.
• Must be able to work independently and in a team environment.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree or better in RF or Electrical Engineering.
• Experience working on projects developing space payload hardware and software, preferably communications systems.
• Hands-on experience with software-defined radios, antennas, FPGAs, GPUs, CPUs, SoCs, single-board computers, microcontrollers is highly desired.
• Programming Proficiency in one or more programming languages is highly desired, such as, C++, C, Python, MATLAB, etc.
• Should have experience working with Linux based systems.
• Familiarity with VHDL or Verilog and Altera or Xilinx FPGAs is desired.
• Proficiency with electrical design software, such as Altium is a plus.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of RF air interfaces and their use of multiple access schemes such as TDMA, FDMA, OFDMA, CDMA, etc. is highly desired.
• Hands-on experience with integrating hardware and software systems is desired.
• Must be good with computers. Fluent in Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX, very capable with Microsoft Office... Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Word.
• Hands-on experience with programming microcontrollers and SDRs is desired.
• Knowledge of some communications/networking protocols, for instance, IP, TCP/IP, SNMP, SDH/SONET, Ethernet, Carrier Grade Ethernet, DSL, SS7, ISDN, Q2931, B-ISDN, X.25, 802.11, 802.16, SIP, TDMA, FDMA, CDMA, LTE, EDGE, GPRS, HSPA, GSM, etc.

ITAR Requirements

• To comply with U.S. Government export control regulations (ITAR), applicants must be one of the following: (i) a U.S. citizen or national, (ii) a lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) a refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) an asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158. Individuals who do not meet these criteria must be eligible to obtain the necessary authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. For more information, please refer to the ITAR guidelines.
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Job Location

• Chantilly, VA