RF Compliance Engineer

As an RF Compliance Engineer, your core responsibility will be to own Impulse Space’s strategy for EMC testing and regulatory compliance across all missions. You will work with RF hardware and software engineers, test engineers, and mission managers to ensure compliance with customer and industry standards, design EMI and EMS test setups, and perform pre-compliance lab testing of RF systems.

· Work with cross-disciplinary teams at Impulse to drive our RF compliance test needs, including but not limited to EMI, EMC, and PFD testing.

· Contribute to design of fixtures for radiated and conducted EMI, EMS, mask, and power testing

· Publish EMI environments to customers

· Analyze data from radiated vehicle and subsystem tests

· Provide RF inputs for regulatory license filings via analysis and test, including but not limited to PFD, PSD, mask, OWB, and power.

· Work with ground segment engineers to incorporate ground performance specifications to EMC analysis and link budgets

· Simulate vehicle and subsystem desense and EMI cases

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related technical field

· Familiarity working with RF device emissions requirements, licensing laws and agencies, and test standards
· RF hardware development or testing experience
· Hands-on experience solving EMI, EMS, SEM, stability, spurious, or harmonics issues
· Familiarity with lab equipment such as Spectrum Analyzers, Network Analyzers, Power Meters, and Signal Generators.
· Experience developing and presenting test plans and/or test reports
· Experience with some form of radiated testing
· Strong understanding of RF system parameters such as channel power, EVM, modulation, and bandwidth
· Experience writing and documenting RF test procedures for use by other engineers and technicians

· Familiarity with agencies and standards specifically related to satellite communications

· Experience writing scripts for wireless systems or hardware testing infrastructure

· Familiarity with testing for compliance with MIL-STD-461G and SMC-S-016

· Experience with common RF protocols like SRS4, DVBS-II, and CCSDS

· Experience in a startup or agile development environment

· Familiarity with RF simulation tools such as HFSS, CST, COMSOL, or other

Additional Information:

Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.


To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.  

Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.