Nine Fives produces modern radio frequency test equipment and solutions to disrupt the $130B test equipment industry. By combining modern electronics, AI ready test automation, and strategic supply chains, we’re equipping our customers to cut their time to market in half.
## About the role:
This is a full time salaried position. Compensation is $170,000 - $200,000/yr + equity & benefits.
As a Founding RF Engineer you will own products from cradle to grave. You will work with our founding team to develop the next generation of electronic test equipment.
## Responsibilities:
* Define product requirements and synthesize into schematics
* Perform component selection and BOM optimization
* Schematic design and routing for digital and analog PCBs
* Perform bringup and characterization of prototype PCBAs
* Write and maintain a common embedded linux software stack across products
## Basic Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or similar.
* 3+ years experience with Altium, KiCAD, or other industry standard EDA tool sets.
* 2+ years experience performing analysis with ADS or Microwave Office
* 2+ years experience performing analysis with HFSS or CST studio
* 2+ years experience with common RF lab equipment like spectrum analyzers, signal generators, and network analyzers.
## Preferred Skills and Experience:
* Masters degree in electrical engineering with a focus on Radio Frequency Hardware design
* Experience designing PCBAs with high speed interfaces such as DDR and/or ethernet
* Experience designing RF PCBAs (LNAs, Power Amplifiers, couplers, feed networks or similar).
* Experience designing medium-complexity switch mode power supplies (buck, buck-boost, flyback).
* Familiarity with common interfaces for networking test equipment (SCPI, VISA, HiSlip, LXI, RESTful API) and basic knowledge of underlying network stack (IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP).
* 2+ years experience working on embedded Linux based systems (especially buildroot based)
* 2+ years experience with Python, Go, or C/C++ development.
## Additional Requirements:
* Some travel may be required
* Role is in-person, 5 days a week.
* Weekend work is neither required nor expected.
Nine Fives is an equal opportunity employer.
Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
