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Front Door Defense lists this Staff RF Engineer opportunity in fremont, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Staff RF Engineer
Lead development of RF metamaterial coatings from concept to prototype for next‑generation sensors
Location: Fremont, California
Compensation: $155,200 - 232,800 USD / year
About The Role
Staff RF Engineer
Lyten is leading an industrial revolution through Lyten 3D Graphene™, a breakthrough supermaterial unlocking a new generation of products — from lithium–sulfur batteries and energy storage systems to concrete admixtures, lightweight composites, and next‑generation sensors that are revolutionizing industries. Together, these innovations are making a massive global improvement and driving real‑world impact across energy, mobility, construction, and defense.
At Lyten, we believe the most meaningful careers begin with purpose — and with people who want to make a difference. We're not just developing advanced supermaterials — we're about to change the world as we know it, reshaping how energy is stored, how products are built, and how progress is made.
We're entering an exciting growth phase, scaling production across the U.S. and Europe and expanding our team of engineers, scientists, and innovators.
Apply now to join our team and be part of something bigger than yourself — where collaboration, creativity, and purpose come together to build the technologies that will define the next century.
Lyten seeks an experienced and motivated Staff RF Engineer to leverage physics and engineering knowledge to innovate solutions to national‑level challenges, driving these solutions from concept to final product utilizing novel meta‑surfaces and meta‑material structures. Requires experience in designing, producing and evaluating cutting‑edge advanced coatings. The selected candidate will invent new concepts, create theoretical models, perform cutting‑edge research to fabricate and characterize material needed to shape coating technologies, develop prototypes, and collect and present data to support proofs of concept.
This Staff RF Engineer will join a team of experimental staff members who are passionate about developing innovative solutions that can impact the future development and application of electromagnetic devices involving novel meta‑surface designs. With these teams, the selected candidate will leverage commercial computational tools to build simulations and develop numerical solutions for problems pertaining to the interaction of electromagnetic fields with novel meta‑surfaces and metamaterial structures with applications ranging from radio‑wave through optical frequencies; extend established design principles and optimization procedures into application domains with poorly defined behaviors or with extreme parameters that challenge the state of the art; lead research efforts through the establishment of collaborative and diverse teams, present results in an effective and timely fashion, and mentor early career staff; and work closely with Lyten team members to engage potential sponsors for the purpose of incubating new programs. Lyten is committed to scientific excellence and continuous improvement in an agile environment.
You are a good fit for this job if:
You understand and can describe electromagnetic concepts and theories
You understand RF measurements
You can work in a multi‑disciplinary team
You have worked with electronic materials
You have ever collected diverse sets of material property data to tailor a product for a specific purpose
You are a great fit for this job if:
You have ever worked in an anechoic chamber or measured the RF characteristics of materials
You have experience with meta materials and/or graphene
You understand Maxwell's equations and can explain their importance and relevance to others
You have any professional experience in RCS, LO technology, RF, Computational Electromagnetics (CEM) simulations, or electromagnetics. We will ask you about all of these in your interview
Required Qualifications:
Doctorate degree in a relevant field (e.g., business, engineering, sciences) AND 3+ years of experience in a relevant field leading or making significant contributions to multidisciplinary projects where scope requires reliance on the technical experience of other team members OR Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., business, engineering, sciences) AND 5+ years of experience in a relevant field leading or making significant contributions to multidisciplinary projects where scope requires reliance on the technical experience of other team members OR Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., business, engineering, sciences) AND 7+ years of experience in a relevant field leading or making significant contributions to multidisciplinary projects where scope requires reliance on the technical experience of other team members
Have 1+ years' experience building numerical models for solving electromagnetic problems using commercial tools such as COMSOL or HFSS
Have a record of creative application of electromagnetics or physics knowledge and numerical methods to solve complex problems in electromagnetic field applications.
Write scientific programs in at least one high‑level language (such as C, C++, or JAVA), in addition to MATLAB and/or PYTHON
Ability to explain complex technical concepts through verbal and written communications to internal and external customers
Ability to obtain and maintain a DOD Secret Clearance
Preferred Qualifications:
Professional experience in RCS, LO technology, RF, Computational Electromagnetics (CEM) simulations, or electromagnetics
Experience in modeling multi‑physics problems, for example using HFSS, Matlab, VBROP, Xpatch, etc.
Experience in the research, design, computational electromagnetic modeling, fabrication, and testing of advanced electromagnetic metamaterials
Familiarity with tailoring EM fields to control reflection, transmission, and absorption by way of patterning surfaces and designing their effective material properties.
Experience in low observable RF and IR coatings material & processes procedures and requirements, be able to author and release updates and original documents and possess extensive experience with strategic coating materials' application in a research or production environment.
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance; applicants must be a U.S. Citizens for consideration. Applicants must either have a current SECRET security clearance or be able to obtain an Interim Secret security clearance by the work start date and be qualified to obtain a full clearance upon formal investigation. If selected and if required, the candidate will be subject to a government security clearance investigation and must meet requirements for handling classified information.
Physical Work Requirements:
Able to lift 25 lbs. and stand for many hours per day.
Compensations Range:
The expected base salary range for this position is between
$155,200.00 - $232,800.00
The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job‑related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise.
In addition to base pay this position is eligible for tier based bonus and equity, healthcare, dental, vision, corporate discounts, paid holidays, PTO and sick time, 401K, employee relocation plan (if applicable)
Lyten is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with a disability. EEO Employer/Vet/Disabled.
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Worksite address
fremont, CA, 94537, US
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