RF/Analog/Mixed Signal IC Design Engineer

Summary

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.

Description

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!

Responsibilities

• As an RF IC design engineer, you will be responsible for providing RF solutions for cellular transceiver chips. Responsibilities include:
• Working with platform architects, system, and digital design groups to define the requirements for RF and baseband blocks based on the system requirements.
• Collaborating with the technology team on process selection for the target device.
• Driving transistor-level feasibility studies of RF/mixed-signal circuit blocks and architectures.
• Designing various component blocks inside the RF transceiver, including LNA, upconverters/downconverters, baseband filters, VGAs, LO/PLL circuits, driver amplifiers/power amplifiers, linear RF switches, attenuators, low noise regulators, amplifiers, and biasing circuits.
• Working closely with the mask design team to implement layout views of designs.

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.