Senior RF Communications Engineer, Space
Anduril Industries · Costa Mesa, California, United States
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 80 days Anduril Industries's roles stay open a median of 80 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 1% of Anduril Industries's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Anduril Industries
- high 2216 stale, 67 reposted of 2,263 open
- Hiring momentum
- 3233 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-22
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About this role
As a Senior RF Communications Engineer on Anduril's Space team, you will design satellite communications subsystems, focusing on RF and optical systems, including link budgets and encryption integration. You will collaborate with various teams to enhance spacecraft communications capabilities and ensure successful operations during testing and on-orbit missions. This role involves authoring interface control documents and coordinating with end-users to translate needs into features while maintaining system reliability.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Anduril Industries as an employer.
What you need
- Strong engineering background in Electrical Engineering, RF Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- Experience conducting spacecraft operations and satellite command and control
- Flexible and agile problem-solving skills
- Working knowledge of MATLAB
- Experience with RF subsystem design for space-space and space-ground
- Experience with optical inter-satellite and optical space-ground systems
Nice to have
- Experience with Python, Go, C++ and/or Linux systems
- Desire to work on critical software and hardware designs in the space domain
- Experience testing comms subsystems in laboratory environments that mimic space constraints
- Experience with testing/validation leveraging FlatSats, Hardware-in-the-Loop testbeds
- Exposure to ground station operations and providers
What you get
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees
- Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of the technology stack beyond MATLAB and RF systems
- Salary range provided but may vary based on multiple factors
- Role involves working with legacy systems alongside modern capabilities
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Listed by Anduril Industries on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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