Nathaniel Tan

RF Hardware Design Engineer and MS Student at Johns Hopkins

Stoughton, Massachusetts, United States

About

Electrical and Computer engineer with leadership skills and experience in RF and mmWave circuit design, embedded system design, diverse programming languages such as Python, Java, C, C++, and Rust. Working as an RF Hardware Design Engineer at Cohu, Inc

Experience

  • RF Signal Processing and Machine Learning Engineer at VectorWave Corporation
    Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos

  • RF Hardware Design Engineer at Cohu, Inc.
    Mar 2022 - Jul 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Associate Engineer at Systems & Technology Research
    Jun 2020 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Engineer in the Signal Processing and Algorithms group at STR.

  • Electrical and Firmware Design Lead at Pfizer/Olin College
    Sep 2019 - May 2020 · 9 mos

    • Electrical/Firmware lead on 4-person cross-functional team for year long project. Architect mesh network for IoT solution. • Biweekly presentation and cross-functional design review with subject matter experts. • Developing and integrating system of devices, sensors and interfaces to monitor environmental conditions in Pfizer’s supply chain, including designing calibration methods. • Designing schematic for wireless sensors. Designing RF PCB layout, including coplanar waveguide, inverted-F antenna, and 2.4GHz matching pi network circuit.

  • Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering (1 yr 4 mos)
    • Teaching Assistant
      Feb 2019 - May 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Teaching assistant for the Microelectronic Circuits course at Olin college. Covered linear and translinear devices such as resistors, capacitors, BJTs and MOSFET transistors.

    • Teaching Assistant
      Sep 2019 - Dec 2019 · 4 mos

      Teaching assistant for Computer Architecture course.