Senior RF Systems Engineer

Senior RF Systems Engineer Who We Are

Kymeta revolutionizes satellite communications through Intelligent Communications Platforms (ICPs). Our electronically steered flat panel antennas enable seamless communications on-the-move. Kymeta solutions serve government, military, maritime, transport, and public safety clients worldwide, providing uninterrupted connectivity and spatial intelligence anywhere, anytime. With over 150 patents, Kymeta is shaping the future of global communications. For more information, visit

Kymeta is seeking a Senior RF Systems Engineer to develop and integrate advanced RF sensing, radar, satellite communications, and spectrum awareness capabilities leveraging Kymeta's electronically steered antenna technology. This role will serve as a key technical contributor in the design, integration, characterization, and deployment of RF systems that extend Kymeta's technology into new operational domains.

The ideal candidate possesses a strong background in RF systems, signal processing architectures, software-defined radios, and digital receiver technologies. Working closely with systems engineers, software engineers, FPGA developers, product teams, customers, and external partners, this individual will develop and integrate RF solutions that transform customer mission requirements into deployable capabilities.

This position supportsadvancedapplications programs focused on RF sensing, radar, passive sensing, satellite communications, geolocation, spectrum awareness, and research and development efforts. The successful candidate will be comfortable working in a fast-paced prototyping environment, moving rapidly from concept development through laboratory testing, field demonstrations, customer evaluations, and operational deployments.

• Serve as the RF technical lead for advanced applications involving RF sensing, radar, satellite communications, spectrum awareness, and related technologies

• Develop RF architectures and signal chains supporting sensing, communications, and radar applications

• Support integration of electronically steered antennas, software-defined radio platforms, digitizers, FPGA-based processing systems, timing sources, and networking equipment into operational systems

• Define RF performance requirements including sensitivity, dynamic range, noise figure, interference mitigation, signal quality, and system calibration

• Develop approaches for IF digitization, digital receiver architectures, and RF data transport within distributed sensing systems

• Collaborate with FPGA and software engineers to implement digital signal transport and processing architectures utilizing standards such as VITA 49 and related RF over IP frameworks

• Support development and integrationofmodem-centric and sensor-centric processing architectures

• Evaluate, select, and integrate commercial and government RF technologies including SDRs, digitizers, timing systems, RF sensors, converters, and signal processing platforms

• Develop and execute laboratory characterization, integration testing, calibration activities, and field demonstrations

• Analyze collected RF and system performance data to identify deficiencies, troubleshoot issues, and improve operational effectiveness

• Lead RF measurement activities utilizing spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzers, signal generators, digitizers, and other laboratory instrumentation

• Support integration of geolocation, interference detection,spectrum monitoring, and RF situational awareness capabilities

• Collaborate with systems, software,and customer teams to transform operational requirements into deployable RF solutions

• Support proposal development, customer engagements, technical briefings, and technology roadmap activities

• Ability to travel
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• 8+ yearsof RF engineering experience in communications, radar, sensing, defense, aerospace, or related technical discipline

• Strong understanding ofRF receiver and transmitter architectures, frequency conversion, filtering, digitization, timing, synchronization, and calibration

• Experience with SDRplatforms and digital receiver architectures

• Experience integrating RF systems with…