Senior RF Engineer

Company Overview

Fortastra designs and delivers resilient, high-performance spacecraft that safeguard critical orbital assets and ensure freedom of action in space. We integrate advanced autonomy, sensing, and control into systems engineered for reliability, speed, and scale.
Our culture values simplicity, accountability, and disciplined execution. We expect leaders to think systemically, act decisively, and take ownership of mission outcomes.  Aggressive innovation. Disciplined execution. Strength among the stars.

Our Engineering Team

You’ll join Fortastra’s Engineering Division. The RF and communications function is responsible for getting data to and from our vehicles and between them in orbit. This includes spacecraft TT&C links to the ground, crosslinks between vehicles, and RF payloads that enable resilient operations in contested environments.

The Role

Fortastra is seeking a Senior RF Engineer to own the end to end design and implementation of RF communications systems for our spacecraft. You will be responsible for TT&C links to the ground as well as RF crosslinks between vehicles, including architecture, link budgets, radio selection or design, and antenna integration.

This is a hands-on, system-level role that spans analysis