Senior MMIC Design Engineer

🕒 September 17

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $170k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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K2 Space Corporation

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2022

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Defense • Logistics • Manufacturing

K2 Space Corporation is a California-based aerospace manufacturer that designs and produces large, high-power satellite buses intended to deliver significantly more power, mass and payload volume at lower cost than traditional large satellites. The company emphasizes production-line style builds and commercial supply chains to shorten lead times and reduce per-unit cost, enabling multi-manifest launches and multi-orbit missions across LEO, MEO, GEO and cislunar space. K2 serves commercial, scientific and government/defense customers, and focuses on enabling missions that require high throughput, high-power payloads.

📋 Description

• Develop high-performance RF and millimeter-wave integrated circuits for next-generation satellite communication systems • Own MMIC designs from architecture and technology selection through tapeout, characterization, and product integration • Design and develop power amplifiers, low-noise amplifiers, and RF switches in GaAs and GaN technologies • Manage schematic design, layout, electromagnetic simulation, tapeout, and silicon/MMIC characterization • Optimize circuits for output power, efficiency, linearity, noise figure, bandwidth, gain, and robustness • Perform RF and electromagnetic simulations of passive structures, matching networks, interconnects, and package/interface effects • Develop test plans and characterize MMICs using RF and millimeter-wave laboratory equipment • Correlate measured performance with simulation and drive design improvements • Collaborate with RF systems, antenna, packaging, and transceiver IC teams on interfaces and system-level integration • Contribute to technology evaluation, architecture trades, design methodology, and development of MMIC capabilities from the ground up

🎯 Requirements

• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering or a related field • 5+ years of experience designing RF/millimeter-wave MMICs in GaAs and/or GaN technologies • Demonstrated design experience with PAs, LNAs, and/or RF switches, with deep expertise in at least one area • Strong understanding of RF fundamentals, including impedance matching, stability, noise, linearity, power handling, and nonlinear behavior • Experience with Cadence, Keysight ADS, EM simulation tools, or equivalent RF/MMIC design environments • Hands-on experience with RF/mmWave characterization equipment, including VNAs, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, power meters, and load-pull systems • Experience taking designs through tapeout and measured hardware validation • Must be a U.S. person as defined by ITAR or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license • Preferred: experience with wideband RF/mmWave circuit design techniques • Preferred: PA experience spanning high efficiency, high linearity, and broadband operation • Preferred: experience designing circuits into the Ka-band and higher millimeter-wave frequency ranges • Preferred: familiarity with MMIC packaging, RF module integration, thermal considerations, and antenna/array interfaces • Preferred: experience developing MMICs for phased arrays, satellite communications, aerospace, or other high-reliability applications • Preferred: experience working in a fast-paced environment and building new RF/MMIC capabilities from the ground up

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity in the company • Comprehensive benefits package • Paid time off • Medical coverage • Dental coverage • Vision coverage • Life insurance • Paid parental leave • Other perks • Reasonable accommodation during employment applications or interviews