About the role
Guardian RF is a YC company building passive RF drone detection and attribution. Our sensors listen for drone control and video links, detect and classify them on the node, and stream detections to DroneView, our cloud platform for alerts and detecting drone activity. Our sensors run at utilities, ports, law enforcement agencies, universities and airports. Guardian RF is deployed across installations with the DoW. We are hiring a RF engineer.
What you will work on
- 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 we are 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.
- Helpful extras include an RF internship, a ham license, SDR projects using HackRF, USRP or GNU Radio, drone experience, antenna or PCB design, or the ability to obtain a US security clearance.
About Guardian RF
Drone detection for US defense and national security
Required skills
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Job details
Salary
$105,000 - $130,000
Location
Washington, DC
Experience
1+ years
Funding
Total raised
$2M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.