RF and millimeter-wave components for aerospace, defense, and space systems
Nanowave designs and manufactures microwave and millimeter-wave components for defense, aerospace, and commercial space—with vertically integrated production from RFIC design through final testing. The tech stack (SystemVue, HFSS, MATLAB, Altium, SolidWorks, SAP, Oracle) reflects a hardware-heavy engineering operation managing complex signal integrity and manufacturing workflows. Hiring is heavily skewed toward senior engineers, suggesting either specialized domain knowledge gaps or scaling high-complexity projects; recent openings in manufacturing alongside engineering point to production ramp.
Nanowave Technologies designs and manufactures high-reliability microwave and millimeter-wave components and subsystems for aerospace, defense, and space customers. The company operates a fully vertically integrated manufacturing footprint in Toronto, handling RFIC design, thin-film fabrication, hybrid assembly, CNC machining, and automated testing in-house. Its products are deployed across commercial airliners, business jets, helicopters, broadband satellite constellations, Earth observation platforms, radar systems, and radio astronomy arrays. The company also offers life-extension and platform-modernization services, replacing legacy RF modules across UHF to 50+ GHz frequency ranges for operators seeking to reduce lifecycle costs and extend platform readiness.
SystemVue, HFSS, MATLAB, and SPICE for electromagnetic simulation and circuit design; Altium Designer for PCB layout; SolidWorks and AutoCAD for mechanical design; FPGA tools for digital integration.
Microwave and millimeter-wave RF components, subsystems, and integrated modules for aerospace, defense, and space platforms. The company also designs form-fit-function replacements for legacy RF systems across UHF to 50+ GHz.
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