# Senior Staff RF Engineer (R5991)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Seattle, Washington
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full Time Employee
**Salary**: USD 216,000-325,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a highly motivated Senior Staff RF Engineer to support the design, development, integration, and fielding of a next-generation autonomous aircraft system. This position requires a balance of technical rigor, rapid decision-making, and hands-on engineering to efficiently transition concepts into operational capability.

## Responsibilities

- Provide technical leadership to the RF team for the next-gen aircraft.

- Quantify and optimize RF link performance, resolve desense/interference problems.

- Define system-level and unit-level design requirements and features for all RF systems.

- Improve design, test, and compliance processes for the engineering organization as it relates to RF.

- Define test procedures, requirements, and train operators/technicians to execute accordingly.

- Help grow the team, provide hiring input, and mentor teammates.

- Establish and enforce team processes around design, test, review, cross-functional support, and regulatory compliance.

- Regularly communicate with the cross-functional team regarding RF status, risks, needs, plans, etc.

- Provide technical design input/review to your team and other engineering teams.

## Required Qualifications

- B.S. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.

- 15+ years of industry experience as an Electrical Engineer in RF systems.

- Strong technical fundamentals.

- Experience working on cross-functional teams involving EE, ME, SW, manufacturing, production, etc.

- Technical mentoring/guidance experience for other engineers.

- Leadership experience in design work at the unit level and system level.

- Experience with quantifying and improving RF sensitivity performance.

## Additional Information

- Salary: USD 216,000-325,000 per-year-salary.

- Full-time regular employee offer package: Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity.

- Temporary employee offer package: Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment).

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- RF systems
- cross-functional teams
- technical mentoring
- RF sensitivity performance

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