Principal RFIC Engineer

Principal RFIC EngineerFull Time/Direct Hire

• Responsible for specifying, designing and productizing RF transceivers
• Involved in early stages for the design concept, working close with other teams to narrow down optimum specification and best system performance
• Design with various sub-micron technology nodes
• Leadership for block design, macro design and top-level integration

• Minimum of 8 years of experience with PhD or 12 yrs of experience with MS
• Analog circuit design, experience of RF transceiver design is required - TX building IP blocks (power amplifiers, mixers, amplifiers, other RF building blocks etc.)
• Good knowledge of analog and mixed-signal to design
• Data converters experience/knowledge is a plus
• RF and Wireless Systems Designs is highly desirable – especially related to calibration of RF impairments
• Experience with S-parameters, matching networks, passive EM designs
• Using Industry-standard design, simulation, and verification tools such as Cadence Suite (Composer, Virtuoso), Calibre (DRC, LVS, PEX)
• Layout proficiency and general floor planning
• Able to drive physical designers that develop our full custom high-speed layout
• Able to understand all process effects on designs and layout
• Apply industry-standard best practices and methodology to minimize design risk
• Debugging post-silicon circuit issues
• RF performance tuning and impairment tradeoffs is a plus
• Systems level analysis of designs Signal Integrity/RF performance/Noise budget/throughput/ Thermal/etc. is a plus