Senior Principal AE-RF Design Engineer

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Experienced Millimeter-Wave (mmWave) IC Designer Specialize In Engineering High-frequency (30 GHz+) Transceivers And Components For 5G/6G Communications, Aerospace Radar, And Automotive Sensors. Will Drive The Full Product Lifecycle, Tackling Challenges Like Parasitic Extraction, Thermal Management, And High-frequency Electromagnetic Modeling. High Level Of Customer Engagement At a Fast Pace On State Of The Art Design. Requires a Deep, Specialized Skill Set

• Building Blocks:
  Deep expertise in designing custom blocks such as Power Amplifiers (PAs), Low Noise Amplifiers (LNAs), mixers, and Voltage-Controlled Oscillators (VCOs).
• RF Subsystem:
  Deep expertise in designing Tx and Rx signal chains for noise, figure, linearity dynamic range and power efficiency. Deep experience in RF PLL design including Sigma delta, FRAC-N PLL. Phase noise and spurius signal, settling time. Experience with PLL buildng blocks such as PFD, charge pumps, dividers, multipliers.
• Architecture:
  Proficiency in RF transceiver architectures, direct-conversion topologies, and phased-array systems. Signal chain analysis and system figures of merit such as ACPR, EVM and BER.
• Process Technologies:
  Hands-on experience on advanced nodes using RF SOI process and deep knowledge of the required trade offs.
• Software Tools:
  Mastery of standard EDA software environments, including:
  • System Simulation: VSS -
  • Schematic & Simulation:
    Cadence Virtuoso and VRF flows
  • Electromagnetic (EM) Simulation: EMX, and Clarity
  • Layout & Verification:
    Layout MXL, QRC and Pegasus

• Education:
  
  Usually an M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (or a closely related discipline).
• Experience:
  
  10+ years of industrial experience taking designs from conception through tape-out to final lab validation.
• Validation:
  Extensive lab characterization experience utilizing high-frequency equipment like spectrum analyzers, VNAs, and probe stations.