Sr. Manager, Engineering

At Skyworks, you will find a fast-paced environment with a strong focus on global collaboration, minimal layers of management, and the freedom to make meaningful contributions in a setting that encourages creative thinking. We are excited about the opportunity to work with you and glad you want to be part of a team of talented individuals who together are changing the way the world communicates.

Requisition

Your focus will be to drive our PA and Front-End Module developments by leading multiple design teams (including design engineers, techs, and validation engineers) locally. You will be responsible for quickly defining architectures, driving rapid feasibility studies, and driving out cost, all while meeting aggressive customer development schedules to ensure we are first to sample, first to production, first in performance and best in cost.

This combination of goals requires exceptional technical, business, interpersonal, developmental and inspirational leadership skills, combined with a natural desire to win through innovation, teamwork and best practice product development execution at all phases.

This position requires strong cross-functional team building skills, including Marketing, System Engineering, Program Management, Product Engineering, Test Engineering, Wafer Fabrication Engineering, Design Enablement, Component Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Operations, Finance and Human Resources. Our culture is designed to promote fast decision making, uninhibited sharing of best practices, and a sense of individual ownership, so we can create unparalleled products and respond quickly to customer needs.

You will have the opportunity to really make a difference at the company and BU level in this role.

You must have an excellent understanding of high efficiency, low-cost power amplifiers and integrated RF front-end modules (PAs, filters/duplexers, antenna RF switches, couplers, LNAs and all associated impedance matching) for the cellular mobile communications market. You must possess cross-functional leadership and customer interface skills. You must have demonstrated excellent communication skills and a passion for technical team leadership and development. #LI-DB1

• Overall leadership of multiple module designs currently in development for our largest customers. You will need to serve as the customer interface to the customer as well ensure multiple key program development is on track and performance is leading
• Detailed architecture, floor planning, cost estimation, schedule estimation, specification negotiation, resource estimation and risk assessment for identified new product development program
• Resource allocation and tracking to help identify when additional projects can be initiated as well as the capabilities and limitations of available resources to execute any given program
• Drive design methodology improvements, best practice adherence and overall compliance to Skyworks MSB Product Realization Process
• Ensure new team members are properly trained and mentored, and all team members are developing to their full potential
• Work closely with the product leads to ensure they have the necessary resources to meet critical goals, and set appropriate priority when resource conflicts occur
• Participate in the recruiting, interviewing, hiring and on-boarding activities of top-notch talent
• Provide regular updates to Senior Management on progress toward meeting our goals
• Facilitate and lead detailed technical discussions with different customers to define architectures, drive rapid feasibility studies, and support system studies.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering;
  Master’s preferred
• 15 years’ relevant experience (BS+15 or MS +12 or PhD +
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• 4+ years’ leadership experience
• Excellent presentation skills
• Experience in Front End or Module level development
• Experience leading multidiscipline teams and working across boundaries
• Experience in team management

• Front-End Module Design and leadership experience in Mobile Products
• Deep Technical Experience in either Power Amplifier/ Low Noise Amplifier/ Cellular RF System

The typical base…