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We help fill an important gap in the market, providing resilient, high-performance satellite-based connectivity services to enterprise and government customers worldwide. Business customers have contracts with agreed-upon performance standards for their broadband, and Logos will build these capabilities into the system from the beginning. Speed and reliability are the foundation of the system. Logos is designed to extend cloud and data center network connectivity anywhere in the world to fixed, seaborne, and airborne terminals.\nLogos is led by a team of highly experienced engineers with proven track records in the networking and satellite industries, including companies such as Google, SpaceX, and Amazon.\nPosition Summary\nLogos is building state-of-the-art radiofrequency (RF) payload hardware and ground antennas, which include cutting-edge mechanically gimbaled reflector antennas. You will be the team lead, responsible engineer, and extreme owner of mechanically steered antennas that will provide resilient satellite-based connectivity. This is an early, high-impact role that demands technical expertise in RF systems for high gain antennas along with an ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional engineering team. At the end of three years, hundreds to thousands of your reflector antennas will be flying in and operating in space.\nResponsibilities\nYou will be responsible for the hardware implementation of and successful spaceflight of RF payload mechanically gimbaled high gain antenna systems.\nCradle-to-grave ownership of space hardware: perform trade studies, select and manage vendors, design RF and antenna hardware, perform validation tests, and guide your system through production readiness\n\nDrive development of system-level requirements for mechanically gimbaled reflector antenna systems\n\nManage cost and schedule of RF hardware\n\nManage vendors and partners, including domestic and international travel as necessary\n\nPerform trade studies and define RF system architecture\n\nCollaborate with, provide technical leadership, and guide a multi-disciplinary team including antenna, RF, mechanical, thermal, electrical, power, digital, modem, manufacturing, test, and supply chain engineers\n\nEstablish and manage qualification and acceptance test campaigns for space environments (vibration, thermal, TVAC, radiation) per standards such as MIL-STD-461 and SMC-S-016\n\nBasic Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math)\n\n5+ years of industry experience in RF, microwave, and/or antenna engineering for satellite communications or similar applications\n\nStrong theoretical and practical understanding of reflector antennas, large aperture high gain antennas, and waveguide\n\nFamiliarity with the full RF system including: digital, baseband, analog RF/microwave components (amplifiers, mixers, filters, oscillators, etc.), feed antennas, and reflectors\n\nDemonstrated experience collaborating in a multi-disciplinary team\n\nExperience carrying RF hardware through its product life cycle, including requirements definition, design reviews, prototyping, test, and production\n\nSelf-motivated with strong organizational, written, and oral communication skills; we are looking for a leader\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nMaster’s or PhD in Electrical Engineering\n\nExperience with design and over-the-air measurement of mechanically steered high gain antennas\n\nExperience with orthomode transducers (OMTs), diplexers, polarizers, feed antennas, traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWTAs), and other waveguide components\n\nExperience with high frequency approximation computational electromagnetics tools such as TICRA GRASP\n\nExperience with RF test & measurement tools such as vector network analyzers (VNAs), spectrum analyzers, signal generators, and software defined radios (SDRs)\n\nExperience with the full space hardware product life cycle, including requirements definition, design reviews, prototyping, test, and mass production\n\nExperience designing and testing hardware for space environments or similar per standards such as SMC-S-016 or MIL-STD-461, including considerations for thermal management, vibration, radiation effects, and reliability\n\nExperience leading cross-functional engineering teams and managing technical projects\n\nExperience managing subcontractors and suppliers for space hardware\n\nFamiliarity with LEO satellite communications systems and high-throughput payloads\n\nFamiliarity with RF propagation, link budgets, and system-level RF architecture\n\nFamiliarity with RF or millimeter wave analog hardware development at Ku- through V-band frequencies\n\nFamiliarity with CNC machining and additive manufacturing for millimeter wave components\n\nLogos Space Services is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering creativity, curiosity and diverse perspectives among employees. We seek to create an environment where everyone can reach their full potential and drive outstanding results. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law. This policy applies with regard to all aspects of one's employment, including hiring, transfer, promotion, compensation, eligibility for benefits, and termination. 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