RF/Analog/Mixed Signal IC Design Engineer
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We are seeking a highly skilled RF, Analog, and Mixed Signal Engineer to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical abilities, a passion for innovation, and extensive experience in designing and implementing RF/mmW and/or analog/mixed-signal circuits.
Our team is responsible for all aspects of silicon development for cellular transceivers, with a particular emphasis on highly integrated and efficient designs and technologies that transform the user experience at the product level. This highly visible role puts you at the center of a silicon design group with a critical impact on getting functional products to hundreds of millions of customers quickly!
Minimum Qualifications
- BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Direct experience designing and bringing into mass production highly integrated cellular RF transceivers in deep sub-micron RF CMOS technology.
- Ability to innovate and implement novel solutions for sophisticated engineering problems.
- Ability to collaborate with multi-functional teams to define system architecture and requirements.
- Familiarity with various RF transceiver architectures and their trade-offs; capability to collaborate with the digital design group for an optimum partition between the digital and analog domains.
- Deep understanding of RF CMOS implementation fundamentals and basic building blocks, including LNAs, mixers, VCOs and DCOs, PLLs, LO, and PAs.
- Design experience with digital TX or analog/digital/sampling PLL circuits is a bonus.
- Solid understanding of bandgaps, bias, opamps, LDOs, feedback, and compensation techniques.
- RF device modeling experience, including device noise parameters and inductor modeling. Insights into packaging effects, supply isolations, high-frequency ESD structures, and circuit layout for optimum RF performance.
- Very good knowledge of one or more of the following tools: Cadence/Virtuoso, Spectre, AMS, GoldenGate, AFS, ADS, EMX, layout parasitic extraction tools, SimVision, RelExpert.
- Bring-up and debugging skills, and experience in working with production test engineers to build test plans and design for testability.
- Ability to stay up to date with industry trends and new technologies to drive continuous improvement.