RF Systems Engineer
Design the radios, antennas, and link budgets that keep drones commanded and connected under jamming, GPS denial, and contested spectrum.
Every airborne autonomy stack assumes a radio that just works. RF engineers who understand mesh networking, LPI/LPD links, and anti-jam are paid accordingly.
RF + comms foundations
Signals, propagation, and the DSP math behind modern radios.
Link budgets, path loss, antenna patterns — the everyday vocabulary of the job.
Bridges textbook DSP to the intuition you need for radio design.
SDR gives you a full radio in software — the fastest way to learn protocols.
The reference for every antenna question you’ll ever field.
Link design + anti-jam
Designing a radio that survives adversarial conditions.
EPFL’s DSP course — the math behind modern waveforms.
Cheap, teaches you spectrum discipline, signals you care to recruiters.
Mesh + contested ops
Multi-vehicle, GPS-denied, ECM-heavy environments — where modern drones actually operate.
Every defense customer will ask about spoofing resilience.
Minimum for many cleared RF roles.