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RF, Communications & Payloads
Measured from 144 distinct posted rates, across 17 employers, each as a year's pay (an hourly rate × 2,080 hours). 93 of the 237 open roles here state no pay.
Live RF & payloads roles
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Senior Product Engineer, Modem SOC — TeraWave (opens the job details)
Blue Origin · Hutto, TX, United States· today
RF Hardware Engineer III - Lunar Permanence (opens the job details)
Blue Origin · Greater Seattle Area· today
Senior Manager - TeraWave Optical Engineering (opens the job details)
Blue Origin · Greater Seattle Area· today
Sr. COMSEC Systems Engineer (opens the job details)
Blue Origin · Denver, CO, United States· today
Make spacecraft talk and sense: RF and antenna design, phased arrays, signal processing and modems, optical and laser communication terminals, and the payloads a satellite carries, from broadband and direct-to-phone links to radar and imaging instruments.
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In short
RF, Communications & Payloads. Make spacecraft talk and sense: RF and antenna design, phased arrays, signal processing and modems, optical and laser communication terminals, and the payloads a satellite carries, from broadband and direct-to-phone links to radar and imaging instruments. It typically pays $135k–$269k/yr, with a live median of $160k/yr, measured from the rates its open roles publish today. 10 employers hire for it, including Hubble Network, Xona Space Systems, Northwood Space.
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