Principal RF Engineer

About Heaviside Industries

Heaviside Industries builds multi-domain autonomous precision munitions for U.S. and allied special operations and conventional forces. While modern warfare has rapidly evolved with the proliferation of unmanned systems, hyper-precise munitions in contested environments are the future of the battlefield. Economical precision strike capabilities are critical to U.S. and allied war efforts, enabling successful defeat of enemy military assets and infrastructure. Heaviside builds precision munitions designed to operate in GPS-denied and spectrum-jammed battlefields—where traditional systems degrade or fail—without inflated prices or sacrifice to performance.

Heaviside Industries builds multi-domain autonomous precision munitions for U.S. and allied special operations and conventional forces. While modern warfare has rapidly evolved with the proliferation of unmanned systems, hyper-precise munitions in contested environments are the future of the battlefield. Economical precision strike capabilities are critical to U.S. and allied war efforts, enabling successful defeat of enemy military assets and infrastructure. Heaviside builds precision munitions designed to operate in GPS-denied and spectrum-jammed battlefields—where traditional systems degrade or fail—without inflated prices or sacrifice to performance.

All engineering and manufacturing is conducted in-house in Heaviside’s Los Angeles, CA headquarters and Oslo, Norway office.

Heaviside is backed by Interlagos, Menlo Ventures, Flume Ventures, Cantos, Anorak Ventures, and Ravelin Ventures.

• Design complex RF circuits for passive and active devices
• Work with electrical engineering to prototype new RF product PCBs
• Platform integration
• Benchtop bring-up with RF and EMI/EMC test equipment
• Field testing and results analysis
• Create and execute verification and validation plans for complete product field testing
• Plan new product and feature development plans and present them to stakeholders.
• Assist with the transition from development to manufacturing
• Work with customers to understand how to technically improve RF sub‑system performance
• Work with cross discipline engineering teams (mechanical, electrical, software)

• 10+ year’s experience designing complex RF systems
• Background in Electrical Engineering with a strong emphasis on electromagnetic, and/or RF theory or equivalent project work
• Hands on experience designing, prototyping, bench‑top bring‑up and probe analysis of RF circuits
• Deep experience working with debugging and RF analysis equipment
• Demonstrable experience designing low size, weight and power RF circuit end products
• Experience designing and bringing a new RF product from concept to market release as an individual contributor engineer
• Must be an expert in multi-stage conversion chains including Local Oscillators (LO) synthesis and mixer optimization
• Demonstrable experience designing RF products with Low Noise Amplifiers (LNA) and doing multistage cascade analysis
• Hands on experience working simulation tools such as ADS, and other common industry software
• Ability to engage technically with firmware, DSP and other software engineers to optimize the front‑end interface
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills to author technical proposals for customers
• History of working with cross discipline engineering teams (mechanical, electrical, software).
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
• [BONUS] Experience designing PCBs and PCB material sciences with Altium
• [BONUS] Able to discuss in depth any at‑home hardware projects current or past.
• [BONUS] Proven ability to mentor more junior RF engineers.

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