Staff RF Engineer
Anduril Industries
· Costa Mesa, California, United States
· Oct 22, 2026
Anduril’s Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, we provide mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of UAS threats. Working across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air Defense team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains our Family of Systems (FoS) in challenging operational environments worldwide.
Responsibilities:
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Architect, design, integrate and test communications networks across a variety of platforms and systems with a focus on C2 (Command and Control) Systems
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Design, configure, simulate and evaluate wireless tactical networking equipment, topologies, systems and datalinks
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Architect waveforms and systems to connect autonomous and human-operated systems
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Lead electrical integration of communications systems along with avionics modules and payloads into UAVs, ground vehicles, weapons systems, and C2 systems
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Support other functional engineering teams’ development effort with an understanding of wireless networks/communications, system impacts and trades
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Represent the communications and networking sub-systems in vehicle-level cross-disciplinary trade-off studies that define and optimize the design of various vehicles and systems and the environments in which they operate
Requirements:
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Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Master’s preferred
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10+ years of experience with communication systems architecture and design for high reliability, resiliency, redundancy and/or fault tolerance, along with the ability to work collaboratively with other teams to define product requirements, develop specifications and conduct system level test
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Understanding of RF circuit design; including noise figure analysis, frequency synthesis, modulation, AGC, antenna matching, power amplifier biasing, and filtering
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Strong grasp of RF propagation, link budgets, and digital comms (modulation, FEC, spread spectrum, multiple access)
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Hands-on experience integrating and troubleshooting radios on vehicles or platforms
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Working knowledge of EMI/EMC and system-level integration issues (MIL-STD-461/464)
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Proficiency with RF test equipment (VNA, spectrum analyzer, signal generator, oscilloscope) and test automation
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Understanding of hardware evaluation methodologies, including development of test cases/suites, performance monitoring, test automation, and data analysis.
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Understanding of RF propagation and link budget design
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Understanding of EMI and common system level integration issues
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Competence with test equipment such as vector network analyzers, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, thermal chambers, and current-probes.
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Must be able to travel 25% of the time.
Clearance Required: Secret
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- Company
- Anduril Industries
- Location
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Costa Mesa, California, United States
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- Category
- RF / Microwave
- Posted
- Oct 22, 2026
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