# RF Validation Associate (Winter 2027)

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco
**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 Validation Associate, you will measure and validate the performance of various RF components, write automation code to speed up measurements, and document test plans and data.

Responsibilities:

- Measure and validate performance of LNAs, power amplifiers, up/down converters, filters, oscillators, etc.

- Write automation code to automate and speed up the above measurements

- Document test plans, measurement methodologies, and data for review

Requirements:

- Hold a Bachelor's Degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, 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, S-parameters, RF building blocks (amps/mixers/attenuators)

- Experience with Python and object-oriented programming concepts

- 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 automating RF measurements

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

## Skills

### Required
- RF concepts
- Python
- object-oriented programming
- RF measurements
- electrical engineering

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

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