Antenna Engineer Intern

About Tacit

We are an early-stage, deep tech startup based in San Francisco, developing innovative hardware that rethinks human-computer interaction. We are backed by General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, and Greylock Partners, with a founding team from Stanford, BrainGate, Oculus, and Tesla. While we can't reveal too much just yet, our team is tackling cutting-edge engineering challenges to bring revolutionary products to life.

About the role

We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student for an internship position to help develop and test our wireless sensing hardware. The successful candidate will work closely with our team of engineers and researchers to design, simulate, analyze, tape out, integrate, and validate advanced antenna systems. This role offers hands-on experience across full product lifecycle, with a focus on design optimization and performance reliability. This internship offers a chance to work on hard problems of great impact and a unique opportunity for direct involvement in 0-to-1 product development within a dynamic and collaborative startup environment.

What you'll do

• Design and evaluation of antennas for a given wireless channel link budget starting from first-principles, while considering pros/cons of different solutions and trade-off between KPIs

• Perform computational electromagnetic simulations and develop new simulation models using full-wave EM software tools

• Analyze and interpret simulation results, providing insights and recommendations for design improvements and performance optimization

• Build mock ups for proof-of-concept prototypes and test vehicles, build test fixtures and platforms, and create solutions to automate the antenna system development process, and data analysis of testing workflows