RF Engineer
Posted 8 Apr 2026
Advertised as “Senior RF Engineer, Radar Payload Team”
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- Expected experience
- 10+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Hybrid
- Contract
- Full-time
No salary listed for this role.
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Title: Senior RF Engineer, Radar Payload Team
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Location: Espoo, Finland
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Department: Spacecraft Hardware
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Reports to: Radar Payload Team Lead
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Employment type: Permanent
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Workplace model: Hybrid
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Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO)
Why this role matters:
As a Senior RF Engineer, you’ll own end-to-end RF hardware development for ICEYE’s radar payloads, enabling high-performance SAR capabilities that deliver actionable intelligence from space in near real time.
Who We Are
ICEYE delivers space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities to governments and allied nations. This includes sovereign and turnkey ISR missions leveraging ICEYE’s world-leading synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite technology, as well as access to data from the world’s largest SAR satellite constellation. These capabilities enable partners to detect and respond to critical changes anywhere on Earth with unprecedented speed and accuracy, day or night and in any weather, supported by ultra high-resolution imagery and high-frequency revisits.
As a trusted partner for defense, intelligence, security, and maritime domain awareness, ICEYE’s near real-time data creates a tactical advantage for mission-critical operations. Designed for dual use, the platform also serves civil protection and commercial users for natural-catastrophe intelligence, insurance, maritime monitoring including oil-spill detection, and finance, contributing to global security and community resilience.
ICEYE is headquartered in Finland and operates globally across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. We have more than 900 employees, united by a shared vision: improving life on Earth by becoming the global source of truth in Earth Observation.
Your day-to-day responsibilities
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Own RF subsystems across the radar chain, including Tx/Rx, front-end, frequency conversion, LO and filtering stages, and interfaces to digital
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Translate mission needs into RF requirements, architecture trades, and implementable hardware designs
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Design, simulate, and validate RF circuits for X-band and above, ensuring performance aligns with system targets