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If you’re looking to begin your career in a high-tech company or ascend to a global stage, the future of satellite and space communications is here. We attract professionals from around the world who are challenging space through new product performance and innovation.
Rewarding Careers
We show commitment to our people in many ways, including benefits and programs to improve the lives of our employees and their families. A company wide 9/80 work schedule enables employees to have every other Friday off.
The best of all worlds
Nestled between the Santa Monica Mountain range and the Mediterranean coast line of Santa Barbara, is the city of Camarillo. A charming little town with good schools and affordable housing and real estate, Camarillo offers residents an ideal blend of small town sensibilities surrounded by a wide variety of cultural and recreational amenities. Pretty waterfront parks, sandy beaches, farm to table dining and a wonderful blend of urban, suburban or rural lifestyles.
Just offshore, the Channel Islands National Park provides a serene escape to uninhabited islands with unique plants and animal species.
A short drive down the Pacific Coast Highway leads to, Malibu. Offering a world renown stretch of sun-kissed Southern California with its own touch of celebrity. Continuing South are the cities of Santa Monica and Venice, with their thriving arts scene, world class dinning and diverse nightlife. To the north are the coastal communities of Ventura and Santa Barbara each attracting their share of sea-side resort living and year-round outdoor activities.
The Santa Monica Mountains and its Recreational Areas stand between Los Angeles and Camarillo helping the city to maintain its small-town identity within reach of the second-largest metropolis in the United States.
Our total rewards are out of this world
We invest in our employees to help them develop and grow, stay healthy and whole, and provide a balanced work-life approach to meet their needs and the needs of the business.
Our people deserve to have fun, stay healthy, enjoy rewarding careers, and be prepared for their future!
Our comprehensive benefit package includes:
Staying Healthy
Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance.
LUCIX offers a competitive benefit package, including HMO & PPO medical and dental plans, an HSA and vision plan.
Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability
Automatic enrollment at no cost to the employee.
Voluntary Insurance
LUCIX employees are eligible to enroll in a variety of other Voluntary Insurance options such as disability, accident, critical illness insurance, etc.
Free Time (or Work/Life Balance)
Paid Time Off. Employees receive 120 hours of paid time off upon hire; additional PTO will be accrued with years of service.
Flexible Work Schedule
We have a 9/80 workweek that provides employees with every other Friday off.
Holiday Pay
We offer holiday pay and additional time off at the end of the year.
Development and Growth
Tuition Reimbursement. We believe in continuous learning and will provide $10,000 per year to an employee to encourage the advancement of their education and their career.
Promotional Opportunities.
As LUCIX continues to grow, so do the advancement opportunities for our high performers.
Retirement Planning
401(K). LUCIX offers a 401(k) with a broad range of investment options to help employees meet their retirement goals.
Rewards and Recognition
Competitive Compensation. We offer a competitive salary package. Employees are included in an annual merit review process.
Achievement Rewards
Lucix offers year-end performance bonuses. High performance is rewarded.
Service Rewards
Lucix acknowledges years of service with a service award program.
Community and Fun.
Culture. We have the backbone and support of a larger corporation with a small company culture.
Recreation Committee
LUCIX has an active recreation committee that plans events and activities for employee FUN!
Current Openings
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Job Description
Lucix Corporation, a subsidiary of HEICO’s Electronic Technologies Group has steadily evolved to become the world leader in RF Active and Passive Units, Subsystems, and Assemblies, for Commercial, Civil and Defense Satellite Payloads. Lucix also provides RF hardware for Airborne and Ground Systems. All hardware is designed, qualified, manufactured, tested, and shipped from Lucix facilities in California, USA.
We are seeking an experienced RF Engineer III to join our Engineering team. The RF Engineer III is a technical expert that will lead as a project engineer for RF products including Oscillators, Central Power Supply Units (CPSUs), Frequency Converters, and Amplifiers for our commercial space customers.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead design and development of complex RF products with emphasis on oscillator products
- Analyze customer requirements and constraints
- Generate detailed design proposals for customers and provide expert-level advice on trade-off discussions for design concepts
- Estimate total costs, including material, labor, test and development costs as well as lead time for new products to be quoted
- Independently complete RF system and circuit design
- Support analog control circuitry designs for features including voltage regulation, gain control, automatic level control, and temperature compensation
- Perform detailed analysis of compliance for electrical, mechanical, environmental and regulatory requirements (compliance matrix) for all new products being quoted
- Determines methods and procedures on new assignments
- Tune, Test, and Report on prototypes / engineering models
- Support Operations by creating test data sheets, supporting Integration and Test
- Provide clear, consistent technical judgment
- Invent new technologies
- Mentor junior engineers in areas of RF design and analysis
- Performs other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent related experience
- Minimum 5 years experience in the RF/Microwave industry
- Demonstrated RF/MW oscillator design knowledge and competence working in several oscillator topologies with emphasis on ultra-low phase noise
- Command of RF principles and theories (RF signal cascade, impedance matching, amplifier topologies, multipaction, NF, stability, distortion, etc.)
- Extensive experience with the simulation, design, test, and realization of RF components
- Expertise in commercial RF / Microwave 2.5D, 3D simulation software (ADS or Microwave Office/AWR preferred)
- Expert understanding of RF board-level design (component selection/placement, shielding, microstrip, lumped element matching, distributed matching, etc.)
- Experience with RF laboratory equipment and RF test methods
- Experience in all phases of RF product development from proposal phase through production
- Experience with InP VCO design preferred
- Experience with Microwave circuit design through Ka-band frequencies preferred
- Experience leading multiple projects in different phases of completion
- Experience reviewing and creating design documentation (schematics, assembly drawings, BOMs, test procedures, etc.)
- Familiar with schematic capture (OrCAD preferred)
- Experience reviewing work of junior engineers and providing technical guidance (technical mentoring)
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Able to evaluate Lucix processes and industry best practices to identify areas for improvement
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Camarillo, California
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Career Level
Job Description
Lucix Corporation, a subsidiary of HEICO’s Electronic Technologies Group has steadily evolved to become the world leader in RF Active and Passive Units, Subsystems, and Assemblies, for Commercial, Civil and Defense Satellite Payloads. Lucix also provides RF hardware for Airborne and Ground Systems. All hardware is designed, qualified, manufactured, tested, and shipped from Lucix facilities in California, USA.
We are seeking an experienced Senior Embedded Software Engineer to join our team. You will be developing and verifying complex digital designs for use in spaceborne products across our commercial and defense programs. Must be a self-starter & team player who can take ownership of a project from design to deployment under a rapid pace.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the design, implementation, and verification of embedded software and related digital designs in system-on-chip (SOC) devices as part of Lucix products
- Interface with senior engineers to implement communication protocols, data handling, and system management in an embedded ARM CORTEX processor environment
- Perform trade studies to identify functions that can be purchased as third-party intellectual property (IP) versus internal development
- Assist in creating embedded architecture, performing trade studies to determine which functions should be executed within the embedded processor, which should be implemented in programmable logic fabric, and how to interface between the two domains
- Maintain code base in the company’s version control system
- Develop software and hardware test fixtures to verify the functionality of the embedded code and the overall system
- Perform bench-level verification of the implemented code in the final system, and assist with test of the overall product
Benefits: We offer a comprehensive benefits package to full time employees which includes:
- Healthcare (Medical, Dental, Vision)
- Paid Time Off and Holidays
- HSA and FSA
- Traditional 401(k) with company match
- Company Sponsored Basic Life Insurance, AD&D and LTD
- Voluntary Coverages (Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity, Supplemental Life Insurance
- Tuition Assistance Program
- Employee Assistance Program
- We have a 9/80 workweek that provides employees with every other Friday off
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Lucix Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, pregnancy, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, military status, sexual orientation, genetic predisposition or carrier status or any other legally protected characteristic.
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer science
- Expertise with embedded software design for ARM CORTEX or similar systems
- Expertise in Python and C language
- Experience with embedded Linux development
- Strong knowledge of implementing UDP/IP networking over Ethernet interface
- Experience with the AMD/Xilinx family of devices and tools, including Vivado and Vitis software.
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Windows OS, Microsoft Excel
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills
- Strong analytical and excellent problem-solving skills
Desired:
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience
- Experience designing high-sample-rate communication and/or signal processing systems in embedded devices
- Experience with revision control tools such as Git, Mercurial
- Knowledge of digital design using the VHDL language
- Knowledge of sampling theory, digital signal processing, and spectral analysis
- Proficiency with MATLAB software
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