Founding RF Engineer

Nine Fives produces modern radio frequency test equipment and solutions to disrupt the $130B test equipment industry. By combining modern electronics, AI ready test automation, and strategic supply chains, we’re equipping our customers to cut their time to market in half. ##

About the role:

This is a full time salaried position. Compensation is $170,000 - $200,000/yr + equity & benefits. As a Founding RF Engineer you will own products from cradle to grave. You will work with our founding team to develop the next generation of electronic test equipment. ##

Responsibilities:

* Define product requirements and synthesize into schematics * Perform component selection and BOM optimization * Schematic design and routing for digital and analog PCBs * Perform bringup and characterization of prototype PCBAs * Write and maintain a common embedded linux software stack across products ##

Basic Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or similar. * 3+ years experience with Altium, KiCAD, or other industry standard EDA tool sets. * 2+ years experience performing analysis with ADS or Microwave Office * 2+ years experience performing analysis with HFSS or CST studio * 2+ years experience with common RF lab equipment like spectrum analyzers, signal generators, and network analyzers. ## Preferred

Skills and Experience:

* Masters degree in electrical engineering with a focus on Radio Frequency Hardware design * Experience designing PCBAs with high speed interfaces such as DDR and/or ethernet * Experience designing RF PCBAs (LNAs, Power Amplifiers, couplers, feed networks or similar). * Experience designing medium-complexity switch mode power supplies (buck, buck-boost, flyback). * Familiarity with common interfaces for networking test equipment (SCPI, VISA, HiSlip, LXI, RESTful API) and basic knowledge of underlying network stack (IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP). * 2+ years experience working on embedded Linux based systems (especially buildroot based) * 2+ years experience with Python, Go, or C/C++ development. ## Additional

Requirements:

* Some travel may be required * Role is in-person, 5 days a week. * Weekend work is neither required nor expected. Nine Fives is an equal opportunity employer.