# Senior Antenna Engineer

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $170,000-$250,000 USD
**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 a Senior Antenna Engineer you will be responsible for the design, qualification, and procurement of antenna system components for ongoing production as well as R&D programs.

## Responsibilities

- Leverage cutting-edge design tools to realize high-performance communications antenna systems with on-orbit flexibility to meet evolving customer demand.

- Work with vendors to design and procure space-qualified antenna and RF components and validate their performance through clean-room and anechoic chamber testing.

- Co-design antenna systems in conjunction with other technical disciplines including Structural/Thermal and Software-Defined Radio to achieve overall system requirements.

- Work with the sales team to propose novel antenna systems that satisfy customer needs.

- Assist in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team.

## Requirements

- Ability to relocate to San Francisco to work onsite as we design, integrate and test mission critical hardware.

- 5 - 15+ years of experience in relevant industry or academic roles.

- Demonstrated ability to implement high performance antenna systems in research or industry settings.

- Strong ability to collaborate with diverse engineering disciplines to collectively design and build performant RF/antenna systems, including mechanical, thermal, systems and software engineering.

- Strong antenna and microwave engineering fundamentals including theory of impedance matching, filters, combiners, amplifiers, etc.

- Experience measuring components using vector network analyzers and antenna measurement ranges, either anechoic or near field scanners.

- Demonstrated ability to solve engineering challenges in innovative and creative ways.

- Capable of using industry-standard design tools such as CST, HFSS, or TICRA and scripting to solve engineering problems using Matlab or Python.

## Bonus

- Experience with digital beamforming, active feed networks, or reconfigurable antennas

- Understanding of co-site interference and antenna siting optimization

- Experience with link budget and system calculations including EIRP, noise figure, and G/T

- Experience designing waveguide components (orthomode transducers, diplexer, filters, polarizers, etc)

- Experience with deployable reflectors

- Familiarity with aerospace antenna design and test principles, including spacecraft charging, passive intermodulation, and multipaction

- Experience testing for EMI/EMC performance and understanding of mitigation practices

- Experience with integrated electronics, inclusive of beamformers, amplifiers, cooling, packaging, and interconnects

- Experience with manufacturing technologies and their impacts on RF/Antenna design, including metal additive manufacturing, CNC machining, split block, composites, electroforming, and plating

## Benefits

- Base pay is just one component of Astranis's total rewards package.

- Your compensation also includes a significant equity package via incentive stock options, high-quality company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance, 401(k) retirement planning, flexible PTO, and free on-site catered meals.

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## Skills

### Required
- antenna design
- RF engineering
- microwave engineering
- impedance matching
- filters
- combiners
- amplifiers
- vector network analyzers
- antenna measurement ranges
- CST
- HFSS
- TICRA
- Matlab
- Python

### Nice to have
- digital beamforming
- active feed networks
- reconfigurable antennas
- co-site interference
- antenna siting optimization
- link budget
- system calculations
- waveguide components
- deployable reflectors
- aerospace antenna design
- EMI/EMC performance
- integrated electronics
- manufacturing technologies

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