Senior MMIC Design Engineer

Company Overview

MACOM designs and manufactures semiconductor products for Data Center, Telecommunication and Industrial and Defense applications. Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, MACOM has design centers and sales offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. MACOM is certified to theISO
9001 international quality standard and ISO
14001 environmental management standard.

MACOM has more than 65 years of application expertise with multiple design centers, Si, GaAs and InP fabrication, manufacturing, assemblyand test, and operational facilities throughout North America, Europe, andAsia.  to view our facilities. In addition, MACOM offers foundry services that represents a key core competency within our business.

MACOM sells and distributes products globally via a sales channel comprised of a direct field sales force, authorized sales representatives and leading industry distributors. Our sales team is trained across all of our products to give our customers insights into our entire portfolio.

Job Description:

In MACOM’s Diode Business Line, we design control functioncircuits for aerospace and defense, test and measurement, cellular/5G, medical,space/hi-rel, automotive and other wireless applications. We are looking for an experienced microwave and millimeter-wave electronic design engineer. You will:

• Be responsible for the design, layout, test, and release of new controlcircuits for microwave and millimeter-wave applications based on Si andGaAs technologies.
• Designproducts such as switches, limiters, digital and analog phase shifters,digital and analog attenuators, detectors, frequency multipliers, mixers,modulators/demodulators, CMOS drivers & sequencers and multi-function RFICs,MMICs and Hybrids.
• Be responsible for all design activities and related product development activities from kickoff through engineering evaluation to product release.
• Workwith our test engineering team and write test and assembly plans and procedures.
• Workwith our package and assembly teams to come up with new and morecost-effective packaging and assembly methods.
• Initiate prototype builds and manage product characterization. You will designevaluation boards and characterization fixtures, direct or performmeasurements, and process and present evaluation data against the product development goals.
• Workwith our Product Engineering group to transfer the product to production.
• Followa formal stage-gate new product introduction process.

Job Requirements:

• Degree (BS, MS, or PhD) in Electrical Engineering.
• More than 5 years of experience in microwave design of RFIC,MMIC and/or Hybrid products.
• Fluent with modern microwave simulation tools such as ADS or AWR.
• Familiar with integration and experience designing for high yield and low cost.
• Experience with EM simulations (Momentum, EmPro, HFSS, etc). Thermal simulationexperience is a plus (Ansys Icepak or equivalent).
• Understanding and practical knowledge of working with the Smith Chart for impedancematching and tuning.
• Operationand calibration of s-parameter and nonlinear measurements using industrystandard test equipment (spectrum analyzer, network analyzer, power meter,thermal imaging, etc.).
• Understanding of a variety of microwave measurements which include but are not limitedto S-Parameters, IP3/TOI, compression/limiting, harmonics, DC and/or RFcontinuous and pulse power, noise figure, switching speed, conversionloss/gain, etc.
• Experience with the design of microwave evaluation boards including both electrical and thermal aspects.
• Deviceor process modeling experience is a plus (ADS, AWR, TCAD, Silvaco, etc).
• Familiarity with AutoCAD or other drawing packages is a plus.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build long lasting partnerships.
• Due to ITAR regulations, only candidates who are U.S. Persons(U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents, or individualsgranted asylum or refugee status) will be considered for this position.

EEO: MACOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse workforce. MACOM will not discriminate against any worker or job applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex,g​ender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military service, marital status, or any other category protected under applicable law.

Reasonable Accommodation:

MACOM is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you have a disability and are in need of a reasonable accommodation with respect to any part of the application process please call or email  Provide your name, phone number and the position title and location in which you are interested, andnature of accommodation needed, and we will get back to you.

We also workwith current employees who request or need reasonable accommodation in order toperform the essential functions of their jobs.