Senior RF Engineer

Hughes Network Systems (Hughes), an EchoStar Company, is the world’s leading provider of satellite broadband for home and office, delivering innovative network technologies, managed services, and solutions for enterprises and governments globally. HughesNet is the #1 high-speed satellite Internet service in the marketplace, with offerings to suit every budget. To date, Hughes has shipped more than 4 million systems to customers in over 100 countries.

We are seeking a Senior RF Engineer in product design, integration and test. This position will be located in our San Diego, California office. The candidate will closely with a team of hardware, software and systems engineers in the design of satellite terminals.

• RF and system design, including low level circuit design at the component level.
• The day-to-day interactions will be with team members, program management, purchasing, manufacturing groups, external suppliers and sub-contractors.
• Interactions amongst functional areas, other company divisions, outside customers, and functional peer groups of various management levels.

• BSEE and 8 years experience or a MSEE and 5 years of experience
• Experience in some of the following areas: receiver/transmitter hardware block level and/or chain level design and spreadsheet analysis, PLL/synthesizer design, GPS receiver design and PA design
• Experience in RF lab equipment, such as spectrum analyzer, vector network analyzer, vector signal generator, oscilloscope, power meter, signal source analyzer, etc. is desirable
• Experience with RF analysis tools (MathCAD, Matlab, Agilent)
• Experience using Cadence PCB tools
• Excel based tools
• Knowledge in some of the following: electromagnetics (fading, antenna theory, and propagation), Fourier analysis, and RF theory (S parameters, matching, noise figure, IIP3, stability, noise temperature, etc.)