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Senior Hardware Engineer, Automotive Radar Division

 

About Metawave:

 

Metawave is a technology company that seeks to revolutionize the future of wireless communications. We are engineering disruptive wireless technologies—by leveraging adaptive metamaterials and artificial intelligence. We are changing the way the automotive industry thinks about radars—we’re building innovative, high-performance automotive radars with true 3D vision and capable of vehicle-to-vehicle communication. Our radars are making autonomous cars safer, smarter, and more connected. Metawave’s headquarters is located on PARC’s campus in Palo Alto, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley.

 

Your Role:

  • Define the system-wide architecture of the M-FAST (Metamaterials-Frequency Adaptive Steering Technology) platform for autonomous driving

  • Communicate requirements and specifications to the hardware and software teams

  • Collaborate with team members to build full-stack automotive radar solutions

  • Perform other duties as necessary for completion of projects and achievement of goals.

 

Qualifications:

  • M.S./Ph.D. in electrical engineering, robotics, or telecommunications, with at least 5 years of working experience in industry

  • Experience designing, fabricating and testing antennas, electronically-steered arrays/ phased array antennas

  • Familiarity with the performance characteristics of passive and active RF components including amplifiers, oscillators, attenuators, mixers and filters

  • Expert at using EM commercial solvers such as CST Studio Suite and NI AWR

  • Hands-on experience carrying experiments in RF anechoic chamber, and using RF test & measurement equipment such as vector network analyzer (VNA), signal and spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, etc.

  • Excellent programming skills, especially in MATLAB, and any scripting languages

Preferred:

  • RF and millimeter-wave integrated circuits design, fabrication, and testing experience

  • Experience with automotive or military radar, and/or working with automotive hardware

 

Perks + Benefits:

  • Competitive salary package

  • Stock options for every employee

  • Healthcare + dental + vision + life & disability insurance (Free for employee/heavily discounted for family)

  • 401k plan

  • Catered lunch + healthy snacks + beverages

  • On-site health & fitness center

  • Generous paid vacation + holidays

  • Relocation assistance + reimbursement

  • Free parking + transportation incentives

  • Social events + happy hours + team parties

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