Digital Baseband Hardware Engineer
Impulse Space
Other Engineering
USD 120k-160k / year + Equity
Posted on Feb 26, 2026
As a Digital Baseband Hardware Engineer, your core responsibility will be to own architecture, design, and bring up of custom digital circuit boards for radio basebands. You will work with RF engineers, RF software engineers, mechanical engineers, and others to meet test needs across a wide range of capabilities. You will work on uplink and downlink SDRs utilizing FPGAs, high speed digital peripherals, DACs, ADCs, and interfaces to other systems. You will have the opportunity to contribute to all aspects of spacecraft electronics development, from architecting new systems to building and operating them.
- Department
- Avionics
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- Redondo Beach
- Workplace type
- Onsite
- Compensation
- $120,000 - $160,000 / year
- Reporting To
- Jake Messner
Responsibilities
- Design and bring up high speed digital baseband systems supporting software defined radios
- Contribute to new spacecraft RF architecture trades
- Develop circuit boards (schematic and layout) for spacecraft, with an emphasis on digital electronics
- Perform rigorous analyses and simulations of digital devices and systems
- Perform development testing of hardware in the lab, from single digital designs to entire RF systems
- Derive baseband hardware design requirements from system-level specifications
- Evaluate and design for mitigation of desense, EMI, EMC, and co-existence issues.
- Own hardware through qualification and flight operations
- Establish and maintain high technical standards and mentor less experienced engineers
- Improve existing RF products throughout their lifecycle by troubleshooting issues, performing failure analysis of parts and systems, and implementing improvements
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
- 2+ years professional experience designing digital electronics
- Proficiency with electronics component selection, analysis, simulation, schematics, and layout
- Knowledge of digital circuit design concepts including signal integrity, timing, etc.
- Strong electrical engineering fundamentals
- Experience troubleshooting electronics problems at the board level or system level
- Ability to communicate technical challenges, explain rationale, and resolve concerns
- Familiarity with high-speed digital simulation software, such as Hyperlynx, Sigrity, SiWave, ADS, or similar
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Experience with Altium Designer
- Familiarity with electromagnetic sim tools such as ADS, HFSS, CST, Genesys, or similar
- Layout experience with large BGA ICs
- Experience with radiation-tolerant digital design including component selection, derating, SEU mitigation, and fault-tolerant architecture
- Familiarity with common RF protocols like SRS4, DVBS-II, and CCSDS
- Experience with multi-gigabit SERDES design, simulation, and testing
- Experience designing high speed digital interfaces such as DDR4/5, PCIe, RGMII/SGMII, Ethernet
- Experience in a startup or agile development environment
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. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
Impulse Space’s spacecraft manufacturing business is subject to U.S. export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This position requires applicants to be either U.S. Persons (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent U.S. resident (green card holder), an individual granted asylum in the U.S., or an individual admitted in U.S. refugee status) or persons eligible to obtain an export license from the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, or other applicable U.S. government agencies. 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.
Our Hiring Process
Stage 1:
Application Received
Stage 2:
Resume Review
Stage 3:
Intro Phone Interview
Stage 4:
Technical Phone Interview(s)
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