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# Senior Communications Payload Avionics Engineer for Fastwater Staffing at HIKINEX

**Location**
: Long Beach, California

**Type**
: Contract

**Level**
: senior

**Posted**
: Dec 4, 2025

## Description

The role is responsible for designing and developing the end-to-end satellite communication payload avionics for the Meridian Space constellation, including RF front-ends, transceivers, modems, antenna interfaces, hardware schematics, PCB layouts, embedded control architectures, integration, testing, qualification, failure analysis, and link-budget and system modeling. The position requires an electrical engineering graduate degree, at least four years of RF/analog circuit and board-layout experience, hardware design experience, radio-subsystem testing experience, proficiency with hardware and RF simulation tools, and bench-level analog and digital troubleshooting skills.

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