# RF Hardware Associate (Winter 2027)

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: $1,925-$1,925
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96372482

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## Description

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity's reach into the solar system.

As an RF Hardware Associate, you will design, simulate, implement, and measure passive/active RF sub-systems at microwave frequencies.

Responsibilities:

- Design, simulate, implement, and measure passive/active RF sub-systems at microwave frequencies, including LNAs, power amplifiers, up/down convertors, filters, oscillators, etc.

- Integrate these systems into the spacecraft by working closely with the rest of the team

Requirements:

- Passion for hardware development, including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development

- Hold a four-year degree in electrical engineering, physics, applied physics, or related technical field

- Deep knowledge of basic RF concepts, such as transmission lines, impedance matching, filter design, and active RF circuits

- Hands-on experience in designing, building, and testing RF hardware for microwave frequencies

- Experience with RF simulation tools (ADS or HFSS)

- Experience taking RF measurements with spectrum analyzers, signal generators, network analyzers, etc.

Bonus skills:

- Antennas and Electromagnetics propagation knowledge and background

- Experience with Software Defined Radios (SDR)

- Experience with PCB design using Altium or similar schematic and layout tools

- Experience with Python (or other object-oriented programming language)

- Experience automating RF measurements

The base salary for this position is $1,925 per week.

## Skills

### Required
- RF circuit design
- microwave frequencies
- electrical engineering
- physics
- applied physics
- ADS
- HFSS
- spectrum analyzers
- signal generators
- network analyzers

### Nice to have
- Antennas and Electromagnetics propagation
- Software Defined Radios (SDR)
- PCB design
- Python
- automating RF measurements

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