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Mid-Level Spacecraft RF Payload Engineer - Millennium Space Systems
BoeingEl Segundo, CA · full time · Mid
$98,600 – $176,250
Listed on Boeing’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
Design and develop RF communication payloads for small satellites used in national security missions, working across multiple engineering disciplines to deliver flight-ready systems on aggressive timelines. This role suits mid-career electrical engineers with hands-on experience in space RF systems who want to move quickly from concept to orbit.
Our summary, not Boeing’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
What they ask for
Required
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
- 2+ years of space or aviation RF and communications system design experience
- Link budget calculation including atmospheric and environmental effects
- Antenna design and analysis experience
- RF component evaluation and selection experience
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain security clearance
Nice to have
- Software defined radio design, implementation and testing
- Legacy and emerging satellite communications modulation and coding experience
- Antenna design, implementation and testing
- Radio design from component level
- Optical communications links experience
- Networking and networked RF communication links experience
- CCSDS standards knowledge
- Master's degree or higher
- Current SSBI or TS/SCI clearance