RF Engineer

US - CA, Sunnyvale Until 8/21/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted August 22, 2025 Last posted August 22, 2025
Job description

Job Title: Hardware Design Engineer 

Your Location: Sunnyvale, CA (100% in office work)

 

Ready to apply your engineering skills to innovate and validate cutting-edge GNSS products?

What You Will Do

As a key member of our hardware design team, you will have the opportunity to work in a hands-on environment, collaborating with cross-functional RF, Digital, and mechanical design engineering teams. You will be instrumental in the development and validation of our GNSS products, contributing to various stages from design support to testing and reporting. We are looking for an engineer who is eager to learn and grow with us. Learn more about Trimble GNSS 

  • Support RF design through critical component research and characterization.

  • Read and interpret engineering specification documents to inform your work.

  • Design and verify necessary PCB boards and test fixture assemblies.

  • Learn and execute current test methods and procedures for EVT, DVT, PVT, and RMAs.

  • Utilize your skills to automate design engineering validation tests using Python.

  • Organize and report test results effectively.

  • Manage test validation efforts for multiple products.

What Skills & Experience You Should Bring

We encourage you to apply if you have a passion for hardware engineering and a desire to work with a dynamic team. Your experience from academic projects and internships is highly valued.

  • A Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, with a preferred emphasis on RF, Analog, or Communications.

  • At least one year of experience with RF engineering, which can include school projects and internships.

  • The ability to read and design schematics and experience with PCB CAD layout.

  • Experience with Python or another programming language for test automation and data analysis.

  • Hands-on experience with general lab equipment (e.g., power supplies, oscilloscopes) and RF instruments (e.g., VNA, Spectrum Analyzer), along with circuit theory knowledge. This experience could come from projects, internships, the classroom, labs.

About Trimble

Dedicated to the world’s tomorrow, Trimble is a technology company delivering solutions that enable our customers to work in new ways to measure, build, grow and move goods for a better quality of life. Core technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity and data analytics connect the digital and physical worlds to improve productivity, quality, safety, transparency and sustainability. From purpose-built products and enterprise lifecycle solutions to industry cloud services, Trimble is transforming critical industries such as construction, geospatial, agriculture and transportation to power an interconnected world of work. For more information about Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB), visit: www.trimble.com

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Pay Equity

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Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

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Hiring Range:

82875

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107875

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Bonus Eligible?

No

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Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

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About this role

Summary

Design, validate, and automate testing of GNSS hardware components in a hands-on environment.

Job title

RF Engineer

Experience level

1+ years

Industry

technology

Location requirements

Sunnyvale, CA, on-site work only, no remote allowed

Salary

82875-107875

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

electrical engineeringRFschematic readingPCB CADPythonlab equipmentRF instruments

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

RFhardware designPCBtest automation
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Sunnyvale, CA, USA

On-site City