Principal Rfic Design Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Principal Engineer, RFIC Design :

In this role, you will be partnering with a team of cross functional engineers to develop novel SoC products for connectivity and communications. This position has high visibility and impact on the success of the project and may also oversee a team of RFIC design engineers.

This role offers flexibility with multiple office locations in California and a hybrid remote / office work environment, creating a balanced workplace for a results-oriented individual committed to continuous improvement, learning, and collaboration. The position can be based either in San Diego (preferred) or San Jose.

Key Responsibilities :

• Technical leadership and hands-on contributions on all aspects of the design of high-performance custom RF, analog, and mixed signal IPs.
• Supervising layout activities and performing post-layout LPE simulations and analysis.
• Working closely with RF, analog, digital, test, and firmware design engineers.
• Presenting to peers and management.
• Working with the System Engineers to derive block level specifications based on target product requirements.
• Run behavioral model simulations to study system performance and drive block-level specifications (Matlab, VerilogA).
• Partnering with the System and Digital Engineers to design and validate methods and algorithms to alleviate circuit impairments by calibration, compensation, pre-distortion, and various other techniques.
• Assisting Test Engineers on the design of comprehensive test plan, including defining, developing, and ramping up production ATE solutions.
• Participating in post-silicon bring-up, detailed performance characterization, optimization, and debug including the use of lab instruments.

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