Required Skills & Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, physics, or equivalent. Graduate’s degree is desirable
5+ years' experience with RF circuit and/or antenna design
5+ years' experience with RF circuit simulation tools (ADS, Microwave Office etc.) and PCB layout tools (Altium, Cadence etc.)
Proficient in basic RF circuits concepts such as impedance matching, smith chart, network analysis, active and passive microwave components and systems (mixers, amplifiers, transistors at RF frequencies) and their figures of merit (P1dB, Psat, IIP3, noise figure, etc.), RF filter design
Familiarity with RF radio architectures and components
Competence with basic electrical PCB design (power distribution, analog circuits, basic sequencing, etc.)
Comfortable making RF measurements using standard RF test equipment: spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzers, noise and power measurements
Key Responsibilities:
Take spacecraft and ground terminal RF Hardware from conception to design, manufacturing, test, and on-orbit operations
Design and simulate RF subsystems (filters, amplifiers, transitions etc.)
Perform component selection for frontend circuits
Perform schematic capture, layout and fabrication support of RF frontend PCBAs and antennas
Contribute to trade studies and designs of radio systems from a hardware perspective
Bonus Points
Experience working closely with PA MMIC’s: matching, tuning, testing etc. is desirable
Knowledge/familiarity with modulation, DSP, or digital radio concepts is desirable
Experience with Altium Designer is desirable
Experience with antenna design in CST or equivalent is desirable
Familiarity with ADCs/DACs/RFSoC/SDR desirable
Actual total compensation will be determined at the Company’s discretion and is based on a variety of job-related factors, which may include, but are not limited to, relevant knowledge, skills, experience, performance, and education and/or training. The Company encourages all qualified applicants to apply, even if the posted salary range does not align with their expectations, as it does not reflect our total compensation package.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, physics, or equivalent
- Graduate degree (desirable)
- 5+ years experience with RF circuit and/or antenna design
- 5+ years experience with RF circuit simulation tools (ADS, Microwave Office etc.) and PCB layout tools (Altium, Cadence etc.)
- Proficiency in RF circuit concepts: impedance matching, Smith chart, network analysis, mixers, amplifiers, transistors at RF, P1dB, Psat, IIP3, noise figure, RF filter design
- Familiarity with RF radio architectures and components
- Competence with basic electrical PCB design (power distribution, analog circuits, sequencing)
- Comfortable making RF measurements with standard RF test equipment (spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzers, noise and power measurements)
- Experience working with PA MMICs: matching, tuning, testing
- Knowledge/familiarity with modulation, DSP, or digital radio concepts
- Experience with Altium Designer
- Experience with antenna design in CST or equivalent
- Familiarity with ADCs, DACs, RFSoC, or SDR
What We Do
Kepler designs, builds, launches, and operates an advanced network of low earth orbit satellites with the ultimate goal of bringing internet to outer space. Today, Kepler serves the needs of earth by connecting machines all around the world using its satellites on orbit and other complementary networks. Through a host of compatible partner equipment we make it easy to use satellite communications in your solution and route data over the best networks.
