Sr. Microwave Hardware Design Engineer

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DESCRIPTION:

Amazon Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

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As a Sr. Microwave Hardware Design Engineer, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary team to design innovative product solutions. You will work closely with colleagues throughout Leo's inter-disciplinary team in order to drive key aspects of product definition, execution and optimization. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within a collaborative and fast-paced environment.

As a member of the team, you will be responsible for designing microwave/RF subsystems for use in space. Must be able to work effectively cross-functionally with multiple disciplines.
In this role you will:

• Decompose system level requirements into realizable hardware requirements.

• Design and develop a solution that meets these requirements.

• Design, develop, and optimize a Ka/V band radio hardware for use in space.

• Simulate and optimize RF circuits, perform schematic capture, and oversee PCB layout.

• Build up test bench for design verification.

• Evaluate and optimize design in the lab to demonstrate solution meets all requirements.

• Work with RF system, power, software, mechanical thermal, reliability and compliance teams to ensure solution integrates with overall platform requirements.

Export Control Requirement:
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Key job responsibilities

• Will work cross-functionally on collaboration to fluently engage with diverse engineering disciplines, effectively advocate for RF system requirements, and ensure alignment for overall system success.

• Design of high-performance Ka-Band and V-band frequency converters, LNAs and SSPAs.

• Develop Microwave and millimeter wave RF hardware requirements.

• Works closely with the production test team to define DVT, Qualification and production test requirements

• Develop, designs, and test of high-power RF/microwave components, subsystems and systems.

• Derive RF HW specifications for the RF system and RF blocks/circuits

• Performs root cause analysis on products, technical problems, processes and documentation.

• Assess feasibility of various designs in support of architectural definition

• Participate in subsystem design and prototyping, schematic capture, prototype bring-up and debugging, hardware bug tracking, functional verification, and signal characterization

• Evaluate and characterize new technology, prototypes and RF components

• Support manufacturing engineers on production testing of RF avionics components and systems

• Evaluates systems and directs design modifications.

• Troubleshoots and repairs circuits and fixtures.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

- Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
- Experience working in a fast-paced, team environment

- • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering specializing in RF/Microwave design

- • 7+ years of experience in RF / microwave hardware design to component level, such as power amps, LNAs, mixers, and block down-converters, block up-converters, and etc. for commercial or military communication receivers, transmitters and subsystems up to 50 GHz.

- • In depth knowledge of radio architectures.

- • Experience with RF/ microwave design expertise in Power, Low Noise and Driver Amplifier design for commercial or military communications receivers, transmitters and sub-systems up to 50 GHz.

- • Experience with RF lab equipment, including power meters, signal analyzers, vector signal generators, vector network analyzers.

- • Experience with RF and EM simulation software.

- • Experience with analog, digital and mixed mode circuit design and…