Principal Radio Systems Engineer Verified today

The Opportunity

At LeoLabs, the Hardware Engineering Team designs, builds, manufactures, and deploys advanced radar systems that provide persistent orbital intelligence. LeoLabs is a recognised space-domain awareness leader and disruptor in conventional radar systems.

As a Principal Radio Systems Engineer, you will lead the design and architecture of the electronics powering next-generation radar systems. You will own complex system-level hardware designs across multiple programs, guiding hardware from concept through validation, manufacturing, and deployment. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for an experienced engineer who enjoys solving difficult problems, mentoring other engineers, working in dynamic teams, interfacing with external partners and customers, and building reliable hardware that performs in demanding environments.

You will work closely with partners supporting end-use customers through regular on-site visits in the Denver, Colorado region. Work location would dictate either living in this region or the ability to frequently travel to it. Occasional travel to our headquarters in Menlo Park, California is also expected.

You will work closely with RF, mechanical, embedded software, manufacturing, and systems engineers to develop both requirements and high-performance radar hardware from concept through deployment.

You will be responsible for

• Negotiate with end-use customers and own the RF system architecture and specifications across multiple programs
• Evaluate technical tradeoffs and guide architectural decisions across multiple hardware programs
• Own radar sensor performance analysis and subsequent hardware requirements
• Lead the architecture and development of novel RF, mixed-signal, power, control, timing, and high-performance digital circuitry
• Define system-level, sub-system components, and board-level architectures, working alongside RF, EE, ME, Software and other systems engineers to arrive at functional designs
• Drive design optimization in simulations and drive hardware development to achieve it in the laboratory
• Conduct technical design reviews and mentor engineers across the Hardware Engineering Team