About the role
About Cascade Space
Cascade Space is building ground-based physical infrastructure and software tools to support customer spacecraft exploring the moon and beyond. We recently raised a seed round and are excited to make our first RF engineering hire!
For our planned global network of ground stations, instead of building single large dishes, we are building arrays of dishes that are combined with a digital beamformer into one large aperture, comparable to a Deep Space Network 34 meter dish. Each array requires dozens of coherent downconverter and upconverter channels, RF-over-fiber, and extremely low noise front ends that make the beamforming possible.
Role description
We are looking for a teammate who is excited to be on the ground floor of a tiny startup, who wants to ship great product, and work on cool space stuff. You will have the opportunity to help build out the team, shape the cultural and engineering norms, help set product direction, and own a large part of our early success. The ideal candidate will be very competent working at a bench, hands on. We’re building toward the future of spaceflight and human expansion into the solar system; wouldn’t it be cool to help get that off the ground?
You will lead RF hardware development for the Cascade Array. In this role you will own the hardware design, schematics, layouts, production, and test. You will work alongside our software and systems engineers to determine what hardware needs to be built. You will do make-vs-buy analyses, and then manage the procurement of components that we buy while designing the ones that are best made in-house. We will buy components as needed to accelerate progress, however our bias is toward full vertical integration.
If you are an RF wizard who knows the Smith Chart inside and out, loves building highly sensitive receivers, has a practical hands-on approach to design, and thrives having full ownership of an entire system, this is the job for you!
