ABOUT HEAVISIDE INDUSTRIES

Heaviside Industries builds multi-domain autonomous precision munitions for U.S. and allied special operations and conventional forces. While modern warfare has rapidly evolved with the proliferation of unmanned systems, hyper-precise munitions in contested environments are the future of the battlefield. Economical precision strike capabilities are critical to U.S. and allied war efforts, enabling successful defeat of enemy military assets and infrastructure. Heaviside builds precision munitions designed to operate in GPS-denied and spectrum-jammed battlefields—where traditional systems degrade or fail—without inflated prices or sacrifice to performance. All engineering and manufacturing is conducted in-house in Heaviside's Los Angeles, CA headquarters and Oslo, Norway office. Heaviside is backed by Interlagos, Menlo Ventures, Flume Ventures, Cantos, Anorak Ventures, and Ravelin Ventures.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Own the antenna and aperture layer of our products end to end: element and array design, conformal and electrically small antennas on tightly constrained airframes, radome design and integration, and anti-jam/CRPA apertures for navigation and datalinks in GPS-denied, spectrum-contested environments
• Own RF integration on the vehicle: antenna placement studies, cable and interconnect design, EMI/EMC, co-site interference, and co-existence between navigation, sensing, and communications apertures inside a small airframe
• Take apertures from first-principles concept through full-wave EM simulation (HFSS or CST), prototype fabrication, anechoic and near-field measurement, environmental qualification, and transition to rate production
• Own aperture-to-system accountability: link budgets, gain and noise budgets, and frequency planning at the platform level, defining clean interfaces to the receive and transmit chains
• Work across the RF chain as the mission demands: contribute to front end, converter, and board-level RF design, debug, and test alongside our RF front end engineer—at a 50-person company building complete weapons, everyone ships hardware outside their specialty
• Stand up Heaviside's antenna and OTA measurement infrastructure—near-field/anechoic capability, calibration discipline, and production test methods that hold up under volume
• Support production and fielded systems across the RF layer: root-cause antenna, radome, and RF hardware failures, protect design intent through supplier and component transitions, and drive yield on shipping hardware
• Grow with the team: as Heaviside's RF group expands, this role carries a defined path toward broader technical leadership of the RF discipline

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• BS in Electrical Engineering or related field; MS or PhD in electromagnetics preferred
• 8+ years of hands-on RF/microwave hardware experience with deep antenna/aperture specialization, and antennas that reached production and fielding
• Demonstrated design ownership across the aperture layer: element and array design, conformal and electrically small antennas, and radome effects on real platforms
• Anti-jam/CRPA or GNSS antenna experience strongly preferred, including multi-element apertures for interference-contested environments
• Expert full-wave EM simulation in HFSS or CST, backed by the measurement skills to correlate model to reality—anechoic chamber, near-field scanning, VNA, and multi-port S-parameter debugging
• Genuine hands-on ability across the wider RF chain—LNAs, filters, mixers, power amplifiers, frequency conversion, and board-level RF design and debug—you can carry a design or a bring-up outside the aperture when the schedule needs it
• Experience integrating multiple RF apertures on a constrained platform—placement trades, co-site interference analysis, and EMI/EMC to military standards (MIL-STD-461/464 or equivalent) preferred
• Ability to define and defend link budgets, gain/noise budgets, and frequency plans at the platform level
• Experience with qualification of RF hardware to military or aerospace environmental standards preferred
• Experience standing up or operating antenna measurement ranges is a strong plus
• Comfortable in a fast-moving, build-first environment where you split time between the design tools, the bench, and the chamber
• U.S. Person as defined by ITAR (22 CFR §120.62)

Additional Information:

Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of stock options, access to medical, vision & dental coverage, and access to a 401(k) retirement plan.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/?id=ddtc_kb_article_page&sys_id=24d528fddbfc930044f9ff621f961987.

Heaviside is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Heaviside is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, physical disability or any other legally protected status.