Micah Cliffe
Manager, RF Engineering at SpaceX
La Mesa, California, United States
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Top SchoolMicah Cliffe is an RF engineering manager with nine years of hands-on experience designing and delivering radio and signal-processing systems for crewed spaceflight at SpaceX. He has progressed from avionics intern to Manager, RF Engineering, leading Starship RF efforts across baseband-to-passband systems, antennas, DSP, and FPGA development. Micah played a direct role in multiple high-profile missions (Crew Demo-2 through Crew-3, Inspiration4) and led UCLA’s ELFIN earth station for a CubeSat launch, blending academic rigor with operational mission support. He holds an MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from UCLA and applies deep-learning and signal-processing techniques to challenging RF problems. An amateur radio operator (KK6SLK), he brings practical RF skills, field experience in noise hunting and antenna arrays, and a penchant for building end-to-end communication chains that bridge research and flight hardware.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Stackoverflow
259reputation
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19answers
2questions
Github Skills (31)
minecraft8
ubuntu7
chroot6
tkinter6
python6
loops6
jinja26
numpy6
debian6
rotor6
seaborn6
matplotlib6
satellite5
shell5
chromeos5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
minterm/Tracking
Aug 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 9 months
pythoncontrollerbash-scriptssatelliterotor
minterm/assassin
Feb 2017 - May 2019
Final Project CS m117
Contributions:1 PR, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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