Senior RF Test Engineer

Our team combines seasoned aerospace engineering talent and Special Operations combat veterans to address 21st century threats. We embrace the best practices from Silicon Valley innovation, such as agile development. We also deliver breakthroughs in high-power microwave technology for offensive and defensive EMP, and artificial intelligence for enhanced targeting capabilities. 

Job Objective: This is an exciting role in a growing company. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and performing test solutions for RF products from concept through manufacturing release. The ideal candidate for this role has experience supporting product development evaluations and final product characterization testing. As well as, working with RF designers and system engineers in developing test requirements, test design reviews, and test plans. 

• Work cross-functional engineering teams such as RF engineering, power engineering, FPGA, and Manufacturing to support product development and manufacturing 
• Identify and recommend RF test assets, capabilities, and technology 
• Design, rapid prototype, build, troubleshoot, and maintain RF test sets to measure RF power out, phase, gain, drain efficiency, and power consumption for high power amplifiers 
• Develop maintainability and calibration plans for RF test sets 
• Support Manufacturing in high-rate production and testing of RF components, provide guidance on RF-related issues during production test 
• Perform RF analysis using simple statistical principles, recommend data-driven improvements for RF test sets, methodology, and processes 

• BS degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent 
• 5+ years of experience across all aspects of RF device/system testing including test planning, conduct, and reporting 
• Strong knowledge of common RF components such as splitters, attenuators, amplifiers and frequency converters and their general RF performance characteristics.  
• Solid theoretical understanding of RF test and measurement principles 
• Highly proficient in using RF test and measurement equipment such as Vector Network Analyzers (VNA), spectrum analyzer, power meter, High-Speed Oscilloscopes, Waveform & Signal Generator, Power Meters, AutoCal Modules, SOLT Calibration Modules 
• Working knowledge of RF design tools such as HFSS and ADS 
• US Citizen or Permanent Resident (future security clearance may be required) 
• Experience with designing automated test systems for various types of hardware 
• Comfortable with object-orientated programming such as C++, C, Python, Ruby 
• Strong documentation skills to track and root cause non-conforming hardware  
• Good written and oral communication skills  
• Collaborative; capable of working across all levels of the organization  
• Organized; comfortable working in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment  
• Ability to cover the entire test system lifecycle independently 
• Leadership skills to guide and instruct junior test engineers 

• Prior RF design experience, proficient with using ADS and HFSS 
• Prior PCB design experience, comfortable with using Altium 
• Leadership skills to lead investigation efforts for RF failures 

Epirus was the magical bow with infinite arrows wielded by the Greek hero Theseus. Like our namesake, we strive to be fast, efficient, and limitless in our approach. This agility, combined with a culture of innovation in systems development, allows us to move quickly without losing the decades of lessons learned. We have developed technologies that leverage new breakthroughs in sensors and high-power microwaves, combined with computer vision and advanced software control. Our first broad-market application is a comprehensive defense system to defeat offensive drones at scale.