Senior Electrical Engineer, RF & Wireless Hardware; Chip-Down Design Remote Eligible

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We are seeking a founding Senior Electrical Engineer specializing in radio hardware and chip-down design to own the architecture, integration, development, and validation of sophisticated multi-radio systems for mission-critical connected hardware.

As a founding member of our hardware team, you will help define how multiple wireless technologies coexist within highly integrated, battery-powered devices. You will own critical radio hardware decisions from chipset and component selection through schematic design, PCB implementation, bring-up, RF validation, certification, and mass production.

You will solve complex challenges across Land Mobile Radio (LMR), LTE/cellular, broadband wireless, RF coexistence, interference, isolation, EMI/EMC, power, and antenna integration, working closely with RF, Systems, Mechanical, Firmware, and Manufacturing teams.

• Radio & Chip-Down Design: Own board-level implementation and integration of radio chipsets and associated circuitry across LMR, LTE/cellular, and broadband wireless technologies.
• Radio Architecture: Translate system and product requirements into radio hardware architectures, evaluating chipsets, transceivers, front-end components, interfaces, power requirements, and system-level tradeoffs.
• Schematic & PCB Implementation: Develop and review schematics and PCB implementations for RF transceivers, modems, front-end components, power circuitry, control interfaces, and supporting digital electronics.
• RF Integration & Coexistence: Design and validate multi-radio systems, addressing coexistence, desense, interference, isolation, harmonics, spurious emissions, grounding, shielding, and EMI/EMC.
• LMR & Cellular Integration: Solve hardware challenges associated with integrating regulated LMR frequencies alongside cellular and other wireless technologies within compact devices.
• Antenna & Mechanical Integration: Partner with RF, Antenna, Mechanical, and Industrial Design teams on antenna placement, RF routing, shielding, grounding, board layout, and enclosure-related RF performance.
• Bring-Up & Debugging: Lead radio hardware bring-up, characterization, and root-cause analysis using spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, network analyzers, signal generators, power meters, and related RF test equipment.
• Certification & Production: Drive radio hardware through verification, regulatory and carrier certification, EVT/DVT/PVT, manufacturing ramp, and mass production.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical direction on radio hardware architecture and design while working with chipset vendors, external design partners, ODMs/JDMs, and internal engineering teams.

• 7+ years of electrical, radio hardware, or RF electronics design experience and a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience with chip-down radio design or board-level integration of wireless transceivers/modems, rather than solely integrating pre-certified modules.
• Strong experience with one or more relevant radio technologies, including LMR, LTE/cellular, broadband wireless, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GNSS, or similar wireless systems.
• Experience designing and debugging RF-related circuitry, including transceivers, RF front ends, filtering, matching, switching, amplification, clocks, power delivery, and digital control…