Lynk (lynk.world)

Senior RF/Electrical Engineer

Chantilly, VA · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 382 days ago

PythonC++MATLABLinuxExcelAltiumVHDLVerilogSystems EngineeringElectrical EngineeringTCP/IPNetwork Monitoring5G/LTEVoIPCommunicationMicrosoft Office

About the role

As a Senior RF/Electrical Engineer at Lynk, you will be responsible for wearing many hats in the world of radio frequencies, electronics, hardware, and software.
While playing with all this hardware on a bench, you'll probably need to pick up a soldering gun, use a spectrum analyzer, assemble circuits on a breadboard, and/or configure an RF channel simulator.
If you enjoy the challenge of wearing many hats and have a track record of creative thinking to solve unconventional problems, then we look forward to meeting you!

You will be responsible for the analysis, design, implementation, optimization and enhancement of our nanosatellite communications payload, and, ultimately, the future constellation network.
This engineer will also be responsible for supporting the iterative design and test of our nanosatellite payload hardware/electronics and software.
This will include working with software defined radios, single-board computers, FPGAs, SoCs, processors, LNAs, and filters - you will also be involved in our payload antenna selection and design.
Support design of spacecraft payload hardware, including single-board computers, SDRs, FPGAs, SoCs, processors, LNAs, filters, amplifiers, etc., and software design and development.
Support spacecraft payload integration, testing, delivery to launch and spacecraft bus partners/vendors.
Interface with Systems Engineering team to inform constellation/network architecture and design based on RF communications payload performance.
Supporting developing and maintaining technical documentation for payload design and development.

Familiarity with VHDL or Verilog and Altera or Xilinx FPGAs is desired.
Hands-on experience with integrating hardware and software systems is desired.
Must be good with computers.
Hands-on experience with programming microcontrollers and SDRs is desired.
Experience working on projects developing space payload hardware and software, preferably communications systems.
Proficiency with electrical design software, such as Altium is a plus.
Strong knowledge and understanding of RF air interfaces and their use of multiple access schemes such as TDMA, FDMA, OFDMA, CDMA, etc. is highly desired.
Must be good with computers. Fluent in Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX, very capable with Microsoft Office... Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Word.
Knowledge of some communications/networking protocols, for instance, IP, TCP/IP, SNMP, SDH/SONET, Ethernet, Carrier Grade Ethernet, DSL, SS7, ISDN, Q2931, B-ISDN, X.25, 802.11, 802.16, SIP, TDMA, FDMA, CDMA, LTE, EDGE, GPRS, HSPA, GSM, etc.
ITAR Requirements

8+ years of RF/EE experience.
Designing and planning payload testing configurations on the ground when testing payload communications performance both in-lab and in-orbit.
Bench level mechatronics work including testing, integration, assembly, programming and prototyping of electronics hardware and software.
Some software-based Systems Engineering analysis.
Must be able to work independently and in a team environment.
A Bachelor's degree or better in RF or Electrical Engineering.
7+ years of experience working on projects doing design, integration, or test of space hardware.
Hands-on experience with software-defined radios, antennas, FPGAs, GPUs, CPUs, SoCs, single-board computers, microcontrollers is highly desired.

Develop link budget analyses, simulations, traffic/capacity analysis, RF system design and dimensioning, coverage and frequency planning, etc.

Because Lynk is a small company, the RF/Electrical Engineer will be responsible for straddling engineering work in the domains of RF, electrical, mechanical, and software engineering.

Government export control regulations (ITAR), applicants must be one of the following: (i) a U

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