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Your day-to-day responsibilities
- Own RF subsystems across the radar chain, including Tx/Rx, front-end, frequency conversion, LO and filtering stages, and interfaces to digital
- Translate mission needs into RF requirements, architecture trades, and implementable hardware designs
- Design, simulate, and validate RF circuits for X-band and above, ensuring performance aligns with system targets
- Execute hands-on lab work, including bring-up, debugging, root-cause analysis, and RF performance tuning
- Run EM and circuit simulations and correlate results with measurements to de-risk designs
- Create and review schematics and PCB layouts with RF-critical considerations such as impedance control, grounding, and isolation
- Define and execute verification strategies, including test plans, validation, and acceptance criteria
- Drive technical decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver flight-ready hardware
What we’re looking forMust haves
- 10+ years of experience delivering RF hardware products end-to-end, including shipped or qualified systems
- Strong hands-on RF lab expertise with measurement, debugging, and correlation using standard RF test equipment
- Proven experience with RF simulation tools such as ADS and 3D EM tools such as HFSS or CST
- Solid PCB design experience with RF layout best practices, using tools such as Altium
- Deep understanding of RF fundamentals including linearity, noise figure, phase noise, spurs, filtering, and stability
- Experience owning RF subsystems across the full lifecycle from requirements through production support
- Ability to lead technically, make trade-offs, and communicate clearly across disciplines
- Working knowledge of Python for analysis, automation, or tooling
Nice to haves
- Experience with radar payloads, spaceborne RF systems, or aerospace or defense hardware
- Familiarity with ECSS, MIL-STD, or similar qualification and environmental testing standards
- Experience with antenna systems, RF packaging, or high-power and low-noise RF design
Application Process
- Recruiter screening
- Hiring manager interview
- Technical task
- Technical panel interview
- Final interview
Working at ICEYEAt ICEYE, you’ll join a diverse and highly engaged team united by the ambition to make the impossible possible. As a global scale-up, we combine speed and ambition with the opportunity to take real ownership from day one. Your growth, wellbeing, and success are a priority, with continuous professional development, training opportunities, and a culture where collaboration is how we win.
How We Work (Our Values)Make the impossible possible: We set ambitious goals and stay calm under pressure. We bring grit, optimism, and ownership when things get hard, and we keep moving until we find a way.
- Be curious: Go deep, ask questions, listen carefully, and think critically. Understand the why behind decisions.
- See the big picture: Stay close to what’s happening across the company so you can make better decisions. Consider how your work affects others.
- Drive effective teamwork: Create psychological safety, invite different perspectives, and build inclusive teams. There are no bad questions.
- Act as one team: We win together. We match tasks to the right owner and stay agile as priorities shift.
- Have fun: What we do matters and it should be enjoyable. Celebrate progress, take pride in results, and share the wins.
