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Job ID: CO-3001
Job Title: Electrical Engineer - RF SMD PCB design
Location: Evergreen, CO
Clearance: Must be able to obtain a SECRET
Travel: Minimal
Description:

The TapHere! Radio Business Unit in Evergreen, CO is developing Software Defined Radio products (SDR). Our mission is to create small, versatile, next generation SDR products for the mobile and government/first-responder markets.

We're looking for a hardware engineer (BSEE) with a n RF concentration, and optionally some Xilinx FPGA and VHDL/Verilog gateware design experience, and C/C++ experience.

The ideal candidate will be someone ready for a small-company culture where not everything will be strictly regimented, is comfortable in roles that can sometimes be a bit broadly defined, and isn't expecting a formal environment. You should be OK with not disappearing into a crowd; you'll be working independently and in small teams.

Experience Required:

Background in:
-- RF Circuit board layout, floor planning, RF-friendly signal routing, impedance matching, loss calculation.
-- Circuit board production: Stack-up, via management, substrate selection;
-- RF circuit design: Link budgeting, filtering, signal up/down conversion.

Experience working with:
-- Exposure to both analog and digital circuits.
-- RF analog front ends; filtering and signal routing.
-- Digital acquisition and data back ends (USB preferred)

Great things to have:
-- FPGA platforms (Xilinx) on the gateware design level (Vivado, ISE, etc). Verilog/VHDL
-- Experience with MicroBlaze and Xilinx Vitis
-- Experience with USB controllers such as FTDI 3xx and Cypress
-- Microcontroller experience in general.

Skills Required:

Skills desired:
-- Proficiency in CAD packages like ORCAD or Altium.
-- Proficiency with Matlab, Simulink and/or Octave.
-- Firmware development in Embedded C/C++ or similar.
-- RF-level test and troubleshooting; impedance matching, loss calculations.

Compensation package includes base salary and benefits. Base salary depends on requirements for education/degree, skills, and professional experience. Annualized base salary range for this position is: $100K and up

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