RF Design Engineer

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

What you’ll do

• Modeling, simulation, analysis, design, test, and optimization of active and passive RF and/or mixed signal circuits.
• Assist with RF system and/or subsystem requirement development and feasibility studies.
• Select and characterize components, generate schematics, and work closely with PCB layout to ensure circuit designs meet requirements while striving for first pass design success.
• Board bring up, test, and circuit optimizations.
• Develop circuit verification test plans and assist with testing.

Required Qualifications

• B.S. Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• 6+ years experience
• Experience with RF cascade analyses, component selection, and component evaluations.
• Experience with RF front end circuit designs like receivers, transmitters, gain control, and power control.
• Experience and expertise with off the shelf discrete RF components like low noise amplifiers, filters, mixers, phase locked loops (PLLs) / synthesizers, oscillators, general purpose amplifiers, variable attenuators, switches, power detectors, and limiters.
• Experience with schematic capture and guiding PCB layout.
• Experience with board bring up, test, and optimization.
• Experience with test plan development and test execution.
• Experience developing circuit models and simulations using tools like Ansys Electronics Desktop (Nexxim, SiWave) and Cadence AWR Microwave Office.
• Significant experience and expertise with test equipment like vector network analyzers (VNAs), spectrum analyzers, signal generators, power meters, oscilloscopes, multimeters, and power supplies.
• Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with 3D electromagnetic modeling and simulation using tools like Ansys HFSS, CST, and Feko.
• Familiar with nonlinear circuit simulation (harmonic balance and envelope simulations) using tools like AWR Microwave Office.
• Familiar with matching circuit and RF filter design.