LAT Aerospace Private
RF System Design Engineer
- Location
- Bangalore, Karnataka, IN
- Arrangement
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Posted
- 20 July 2026 (about 2 months ago)
Checked about a month agoApplications go to the employer, never to RoleSprint
About this role
We're Hiring: RF System Design Engineer
Full-Time | Core Team
LAT Aerospace | Defence
LAT Aerospace is developing next-generation aerospace systems from first principles. This includes a hybrid electric aircraft that takes off and lands within a space of a parking lot, Defence systems built from ground up and scalable Gas Turbine Engines.
Under the Defence program - we're building next-generation RF sensing - persistent, all-weather detection and tracking, fielded in months, not years. The challenge belongs to the RF chain: getting clean, wide-dynamic-range signal off the array so small, slow targets can be pulled out of clutter on deployable hardware. You'll own the chain from antenna to digitized samples, prototyping on SDRs so an idea goes from model to over-the-air in days. Because our architecture is software-defined, every improvement you make ships as capability.
What you'll do
- Own the end-to-end RF architecture: frequency planning, link/power budgets, cascade, dynamic range, and spurious analysis
- Design the waveform and receive chain - chirp synthesis, LO generation, receiver lineup - driving phase-noise, linearity, and isolation to component level
- Architect a software-defined approach: reconfigurable waveforms, sampling-friendly front-ends, clean RF-digital partitioning
- Design and bring up T/R modules, RF front-ends, and antennas at element and array level - sidelobe control, pattern measurement
- Define and execute multi-channel amplitude/phase calibration, from factory alignment to field
- Simulate, fabricate, measure, correlate, iterate - validate against hardware relentlessly
- Plan and run lab and field test campaigns through live target-tracking trials
- Harden for thermal, vibration, EMI/EMC, and document to production-grade standards
What we're looking for
- Hands-on RF system design in radar/defence electronics - firm requirement; telecom/5G-only will not qualify
- At least one complete RF system taken from architecture through hardware to field testing
- FMCW chain, phased-array/AESA design, and software-defined radar concepts
- Antenna design at element and array level; microwave design at X, Ku, or Ka band
- RF architecture analysis: link budget, cascade, frequency planning, spur charts, phase-noise budgeting
- EM simulation (HFSS, CST, FEKO, AWR) and circuit/system simulation (ADS, Microwave Office, SystemVue)
- Hands-on RF lab: VNA, spectrum analyzer, signal generators, phase-noise, power meters
- Scripting for analysis and automation: MATLAB or Python
- Eager to learn - treats "I haven't done this before" as a starting point, not a boundary
Why LAT?
- Core team opportunity at a high-conviction deep-tech startup
- Real hardware, real field tests, real impact
- Build sovereign defence technology from the ground up in India
Work location
- Bangalore, Karnataka, IN
Related jobs
Ready to make a decision?
This role is either worth your time or it isn’t.
Analyze the posting against your experience, see the gaps clearly, and build the right materials only if the opportunity makes sense.
Nothing is submitted automatically. You choose what happens next.
About this listing
Published on Ashby under the board identifier Lat, which is the name the employer’s own job board carries. RoleSprint has not verified the company’s registered or trading name, so it is shown exactly as published rather than tidied up.
RoleSprint is not the employer and not a recruiter. Applications are made on the employer’s own site and never reach us; what RoleSprint does is help you decide whether a role is worth your time and prepare for it if it is.
Published 20 July 2026, last checked about a month ago. A posting stops being advertised here 90 days after the employer published it, and one the employer takes down is marked closed rather than quietly removed.