As a Senior Electronics RF Engineer, you will play a key role in our hardware engineering core team, designing and delivering state-of-the-art electronics that power our next-generation drone platforms. In this position, you will take full ownership of our radio transceiver systems, developing the PCBs and antenna solutions that enable robust, long-range communication and video links to our drones. Working closely with our radio firmware team, you'll bring cutting-edge transceivers and SDR technologies to life, optimizing signal-to-noise ratio, boosting output power, and troubleshooting and improving existing solutions. This is a hands-on role in a fast-paced, agile environment, offering the opportunity to design creative solutions for radio transceivers from concept to mass production.
Beyond RF, you'll contribute your expertise to the broader hardware team, supporting the development of drone-specific PCBs and enhancing the electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) of our designs. Your experience in EMC and RF will be a valuable asset in guiding the team toward more robust and compliant hardware solutions.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Design powerful long-range radio transceivers, spanning from Sub-GHz to 5.8GHz, providing reliable communication and wideband video links for drone operation
- Implement next-generation SDR into our products, including architecture definition, design implementation, verification and validation in the field
- Provide technical direction for RF design decisions, ensuring systems meet stringent requirements for high-throughput, ultra-low latency, and exceptional immunity against environmental interference
- Define and execute the verification and validation of our transceivers, including EMC, thermal optimization and certification (e.g., FCC, RED).
- Provide technical guidance and hands-on support to the broader engineering team for the design, prototyping, and testing of state-of-the-art avionics PCBs and modular systems
- Create supporting documents (concepts, CAD drawings, BOM, assembly instructions etc.)
- Act as the Subject Matter Expert (SME), providing advanced radio and antenna integration expertise to support our customer integration teams and resolve complex field issues.
Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field
- 5+ years in RF system design and/or SDR development, including practical experience with antenna integration, verification and validation
- Skilled in using RF test equipment (spectrum analyzers, signal generators, network analyzers) and interpreting results.
- Experienced in designing complex mixed-signal circuit boards, including layouting high-speed interfaces like USB3.1, GbE or MIPI-CSI
- Pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset
- Good verbal and written English communication skills
- Proficiency with Altium is desirable
Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Stock Options
- Generous holiday allowance
- Company pension plan
- Car parking
- Enhanced maternity & paternity leave
- Mental health and wellbeing support
- Learning and development opportunities
About Auterion
We are building the leading software and electronics platform for AI-powered autonomous systems for enterprise and government customers. Our team is supporting the most important missions and solving the most challenging problems.
At Auterion, we bring together the sharpest minds who love to solve the hardest problems. Join a vibrant team built on innovation, openness, and excellence, where you’ll be empowered to develop ideas, collaborate across all levels, and make an impact that matters.
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What We Do
At Auterion we care about providing enterprise with an ecosystem of software-defined drones, payloads, and third party applications within a single easy to use platform based on open-source standards.
We’re leaders in an open-source movement bigger than ourselves and we’ve been on the same mission for over a decade, since our co-founder Lorenz Meier created Pixhawk, MAVLink, QGC, and PX4 (the world’s most widely used open-source drone autopilot operating system).
Our mission is to be the drone platform of choice for enterprise, government, and drone manufacturers while accelerating the drone industry by driving forward open standards to create a common, future-proof roadmap in a thriving, open ecosystem of buyers and vendors.
At Auterion, we bring together the sharpest minds who love to solve the hardest problems. Join a vibrant team built on innovation, openness, and excellence, where you’ll be empowered to develop ideas, collaborate across all levels, and make an impact that matters.
