University of California, San Diego

San Diego State University

University of California, Davis

Sr. RF Design Engineer at Lab126

San Francisco, California, United States

Amazon Lab126

Senior RF Design Engineer

Electromagnetics subject matter expert with an emphasis on phased array technology. Fungible across wireless systems, RF systems and antenna engineering roles. High performance antenna design, mm-Wave test infrastructure design, link budgeting, first principles EM modeling, system block diagram development, design documentation, test plan development. Demonstrated industry leading mm-Wave radio performance for both fixed beam and phased array architectures.

Google

Antenna Design Engineer

End-to-end antenna system development for communications in contested battlefield environments. Developed highly integrated antenna modules, calibration/test infrastructure and algorithms for digital beamformer new technology initiative. Performed detailed link budgeting, propagation modeling and full-wave electromagnetic simulations from UHF to mm-Wave. Developed custom code for analysis and synthesis of massive phased arrays. Recommended new antenna technologies. Authored white papers and RFI responses.

Cubic Defense Applications

Principal Antenna Engineer

Successfully delivered S-band transponder radio flight hardware for NASA LADEE and IRIS satellite missions. Performed RF circuit design, prototyping and characterization. Design engineer on several Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) projects including high performance conformal antenna design and reconfigurable filter technology.

Space Micro Inc.

RF Engineering Intern

Performed system level MATLAB and Microwave Office analysis of a single channel direction finding system. Measured the S-parameter characteristics of the current prototype system. Produced trade study results to guide the selection of microwave components for a miniaturized second prototype direction finding system.

Northrop Grumman Information Systems

Systems Engineering Intern

Lectured in upper division electromagnetics course for electrical engineering students. Assisted graduate students of Prof. Sharma in a variety of advanced antenna and microwave related research projects as part of a graduate level course. Performed advanced reconfigurable aperture antenna research using metamaterial structures for performance enhancement.

Research Assistant in Antenna and Microwave Lab

12-week internship under the supervision of a staff scientist specializing in electromagnetic analysis and simulation of time domain reflectometry problems. Generated a library of fault signatures for coaxial and twisted shielded pair wires using CST's Microwave Studio.

NASA Ames Research Center

Engineering Intern

Performed data analysis on PCM, Wafer Sort, and Final Test data using DataPower and Excel. Generated weekly/monthly wafer sort and final test reports linking wafer map and parametric signatures to changes in yield. Continually learned wafer processing technologies especially as they relate to yield issues.

Nathan Labadie

Nathan Labadie