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RF Engineering Intern (Summer/Fall 2025)

Impulse Space

Impulse Space

Posted on Feb 6, 2025
As an RF Engineering Intern, your core responsibility will be to design, manufacture, and test custom RF systems. You will work with RF engineers, avionics engineers, software engineers, and mechanical engineers. You will have the opportunity to contribute to various aspects of spacecraft RF system development, including component selection, bench testing, system bringup, and manufacturing.

Department
Avionics
Employment Type
Internship
Location
Redondo Beach
Workplace type
Onsite
Compensation
$1,440 / week
Reporting To
Jake Messner, RF Manager

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate and select RF components from various vendors for system integration
  • Run simulations and generate link budgets for early-stage wireless designs
  • Design and execute validation plans for RF system designs
  • Work on RF schematics, layout, and manufacturing for test and/or flight products
  • Utilize simulation software including CST, HFSS, and ADS to design RF front end components


Minimum Qualifications

  • Currently enrolled in a bachelor’s or master's program for Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related area.
  • Experience troubleshooting PCBs at the board or system level
  • Understanding of RF and microwave concepts such as transmission lines, S-parameters, amplifiers, splitters, etc.
  • Familiarity working hands-on in a lab with test equipment

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Python scripting experience
  • Previous usage of simulation tools such as ADS, CST, HFSS, etc.
  • Experience working with test setups for PAs, LNAs, or filters
  • Experience working on a team with a mix of hardware and software engineers
  • Experience with Altium Designer


Additional Requirements:
  • Willing and able to work on-site in Redondo Beach, CA for the duration of the internship

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.


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.

About Impulse Space

Impulse Space, the in-space transportation company founded by Tom Mueller, is opening access beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with its fleet of in-space transportation vehicles. The high-energy Helios vehicle unlocks orbits beyond LEO with its powerful Deneb engine, dropping off payloads in MEO, GEO, heliocentric, lunar, and other planetary orbits. The flight-proven Mira vehicle uses a nontoxic, high-impulse chemical propulsion system to offer orbital transport, constellation deployment, and precision reentry services to customers throughout LEO. Led by a team that delivered the most reliable rockets in history, Impulse provides economical and efficient in-space transportation by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.

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