# RF Hardware Intern (Winter 2027)

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco
**Job type**: internship
**Salary**: $29-$29
**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 Intern (Winter 2027) at Astranis, you will have the opportunity to work on challenging projects, designing, simulating, implementing, and measuring 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:

- Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's Degree program in electrical engineering, physics, applied physics, or related technical field

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

- 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 pay for this position is $29.00 per hour.

## Skills

### Required
- RF circuit design
- microwave frequencies
- RF simulation tools
- PCB design
- Python

### Nice to have
- Antennas and Electromagnetics
- Software Defined Radios
- Altium
- automating RF measurements

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