Leidos Holdings

Space Payload RF Design Lead Engineer

Huntsville, AL US
USD 126k - 227k
Description

The RF Payload Design Lead will serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) and design lead for RF payloads to fly onboard small satellites for a variety of missions for DoD, NASA, and commercial customers. The job entails full lifecycle including concept development, system architecture, trade studies, performance analysis, system design, production, integration, test, and on-orbit support. You will use your experience designing and optimizing RF circuits and provide recommendations on part selections maximizing reliability while considering cost and schedule constraints.

Primary Responsibilities

As a lead engineer, you will have a role consisting of:

  • Participate in development phases including concept of operations development, new product definition, detailed requirements flow down, trade studies, prototyping and development of proof-of-concept engineering models, architecture design, hardware selection, firmware and software development, radio and payload integration and test, spacecraft integration and test, and on-orbit support.
  • Actively work with multi-domain team of engineers including software, firmware, electrical, mechanical, and test engineers to coordinate activity across multiple programs, including ground support, test equipment, software-in-the-loop (SWIL), and hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) simulators.
  • Analyze user requirements to derive design and performance requirements.
  • Assist with developing and executing test procedures for components.
  • Interface with system engineers and hardware engineers to derive software requirements and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements, and interfaces.
  • Mentor Junior software engineers in good engineering practices.

Basic Qualifications

We’re looking for an RF Engineer possessing the basic foundational skills such as:

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent from an accredited university.
  • 12+ years direct experience in related role.
  • Experience in RF system performance and link analysis.
  • Experience with software defined radios, transceivers, antennas, and steerable arrays.
  • Experience in multiple spectral bands, waveforms, and modulations.
  • Experience in signal processing and communications software.
  • Strong skills with PCB design, schematic capture, circuit simulation, electromagnetic (EM) simulation, signal/power integrity, and Atlassian Tools (Confluence & Jira).
  • Experience with space qualified design, development, integration, and test for radiation environments, thermal and power constraints, etc.
  • Experience in laboratories and cleanrooms using test equipment, including oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, Signal Generators, RF Probe Stations, Noise Figure Analyzers, Load-pull Tuners, and other electronic test hardware, in bring-up, integration, test and troubleshooting of electronic boards/systems and components.
  • Demonstrate technical expertise and application of engineering principles with the ability to organize, plan, schedule, and coordinate workloads to meet established milestones.
  • Candidate must be a resident of the North Alabama area or willing to relocate to the Huntsville - North Alabama, AL area.
  • U.S. Citizenship and an active Security Clearance and eligibility for Final Top Secret with SCI is required.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s Degree or better in a related field.
  • Experience developing DoD or NASA satellite payloads.
  • Experience in electronic warfare, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and/or communications payloads.

Original Posting Date:

2025-01-17

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $126,100.00 - $227,950.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Leidos Holdings
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