• The engineer will develop high-efficiency, electronically steerable metasurface antennas optimized for small satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO)
• The role emphasizes achieving low cost, size, weight, and power (CSWAP) characteristics, high performance beamforming, and seamless integration with RF and SAR subsystems
• Design electronically steered metasurface antenna designs for X band SAR
• Simulate full antenna and subsystems to predict SAR payload performance
• Create printed circuit board (PCB) fabrication drawings and specifications for antenna test structures, subsystems, and overall antenna tiles
• Lead antenna testing in anechoic environment, including antenna pattern and gain

Assist with integrating antenna controls, satellite subsystems, RF subsystems, calibration routines, and SAR imaging modes/tasking

• Experience leading the design of designing and testing microwave antennas
• Strong understanding of electromagnetics, beamforming, and antenna array theory
• Experience with radio frequency (RF) and antenna components, vector network analyzers, gain measurements, and S-parameter characterization
• Software experience: CST/HFSS, Altium/ADS
• Spectrum experience: microwave (S band, C band, or X band)
• Experience with reconfigurable, electronically steerable, or metasurface antennas
• Prior work on satellite systems, SAR payloads, or remote sensing missions
• Familiarity with deployable antenna structures
• Multi-physics simulation experience coupling RF, thermal, and mechanical effects
• Background in aerospace qualification testing (thermal-vacuum, vibration, etc.)
• Knowledge of link budget and system-level RF performance optimization
• Experience with high-power systems (>1 kW)

X band radar systems (8 – 12 GHz)

BS, MS, or PhD in in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, or related field