RF and DSP Engineer

Guardian RF is a company building passive RF drone detection and attribution systems for deployments at utilities, ports, law enforcement agencies, universities, airports, and Department of War installations. The RF and DSP Engineer will develop and tune DSP-based detection and classification, configure RF hardware for deployments, and validate system performance through laboratory and field testing.

What you'll do:

• Build and tune DSP detection and classification for drone RF links, improve track quality, and validate results against recorded field data
• Configure antennas, filtering, LNAs and amplifiers for individual deployments, including filtered frontends that improve track fidelity at noisy urban sites
• Develop link budgets and cascade analyses, measure hardware with VNAs and spectrum analyzers, and validate performance with real drones at deployment sites

What they're looking for:

• A college senior or recent graduate in electrical engineering or a related field, with coursework in signals and systems, DSP, communications, electromagnetics or microwave engineering
• Experience using a VNA, spectrum analyzer or SDR in a lab or internship
• Programming experience in Python and/or C/C++
• MATLAB experience is also welcome
• Someone who learns by building and testing and wants ownership on a small engineering team
• An RF internship
• A ham license
• SDR projects using HackRF, USRP or GNU Radio
• Drone experience
• Antenna or PCB design
• The ability to obtain a US security clearance