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Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is seeking a Senior RF Design Engineer to join its Electronic Warfare (EW) division. The EW team builds next-generation electronic warfare platforms—hardware-enabled, software-defined systems that are fielded, operational, and scaling rapidly. The division operates at an accelerated tempo, delivering novel system configurations into active operations in days rather than months, and iterating based on direct operator feedback from the field.
In this role, you will design and develop complete RF radio architectures (receivers, transmitters, transceivers) from requirements through production. You will architect and design RF up-conversion and down-conversion signal chains, optimizing trade-offs between noise, distortion, and dynamic range. Your responsibilities include modeling, simulation, analysis, design, test, and optimization of active and passive RF and mixed-signal circuits.
You will select, characterize, and integrate high-speed data converters (ADCs and DACs) along with associated baseband driving, filtering, and interface circuits. You will design and optimize clock trees, reference oscillators, and LO/synthesizer architectures (DDS, PLL, VCO-based) with emphasis on phase noise, spurious content, and settling time. System-level spur analysis—including mixer spurs, synthesizer harmonics, clock coupling, and image rejection—will be a key focus, with you developing mitigation strategies.
You will own radio PCBA design and test through the full lifecycle: analysis (harmonic, spur, etc.), component selection (ADC/DAC, mixer, filters, etc.), technical data package (schematic/layout), board bring-up, test, DVT/ATP, and new product introduction to manufacturing. You will also assist with feasibility studies, requirements definition, and system integration as needed.
Required qualifications include a B.S. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, 7+ years of experience, and demonstrated expertise designing complete RF receiver and/or transmitter signal chains using common architectures (direct conversion, zero-IF, single-IF, dual-IF, clock-chains). You must have hands-on experience with off-the-shelf discrete RF components (LNAs, filters, mixers, PLLs/synthesizers, oscillators, amplifiers, variable attenuators, switches, power detectors, limiters), high-speed data converters (ADC/DAC), and synthesizer/LO design including PLL loop filter optimization, phase noise analysis, and spur management.
