Senior Manager of Design Engineering

Mini-Circuits designs, manufactures and distributes integrated circuits, modules, and sub-systems for high-performance radio frequency (RF) and microwave applications. With design, sales and manufacturing locations in over 30 countries, Mini-Circuits’ products are used in a range of wired and wireless communications applications. Our products are also used in detection, measurement and imaging applications, including military communication, guidance and electronic countermeasure systems, commercial, scientific, military land, sea and aircraft;

automotive systems, medical systems, and industrial test equipment.

Mini-Circuits’ sells its products to over 20,000 customers globally through our direct sales force, applications engineering staff, sales representatives, as well as through our extensive website.

The Sr. Manager of Design Engineering – LTCC is r esponsible for leading all design aspects of the LTCC Design Team’s development activities. The Sr. Manager of Design Engineering will focus on executing the LTCC product development engineering function as a cohesive unit, the conceptualizing and day-to-day management of simultaneous projects, delivering manufacturable designs to agreed specifications within time and budget constraints, and the fostering of innovative solutions to customer needs.

This position has reporting responsibility to the Director of Engineering - LTCC.

Salary Range: $195,000 - $225,000 per year

• Manage the design of RF & Microwave circuits, components and sub-assemblies, focused Filters, Power Splitters, Couplers, and Baluns, for high-performance and multi-function devices. Modify existing designs to improve performance, quality, manufacturability, production yields, etc.
• Accountable for adherence to device perturbation and sensitivity analysis process to ensure highest possible production yields, meeting deadlines and resolving performance issues along the way.
• Direct and manage the performance of the group’s circuit, components and sub-assemblies’ analysis and simulation efforts employing commercially available EDA Software including PSpice, Method of Moments (MoM), Finite Element Method (FEM) engines (i.e. Genesys, ADS, HFSS, CST), and other CAD tools.
• Develop novel and accurate multi-physics simulation models, DOEs, and technology characterization efforts to forecast production-level and field performance
• Responsible for the management of a library of FEM and MoM simulation models including connectors, PCBs, LTCCs, Cal Standards, Wire bonds and lumped components, among others.
• Create and implement an optimum design flow and strategy geared to lower turnaround times, increase component’s performance and rate of 1st spin success while ensuring manufacturability, improving yields, and lowering costs
• Responsible for the team’s design approach, topology selection criteria, technological choice, design time budgeting, and overall technical approach to any requirement meeting deadlines and resolving performance issues along the way.
• Research & utilize latest techniques & approaches, analyze user input, and identify and establish performance standards. Develop processes and procedures to verify and validate designs through simulations, tests and reliability studies.
• Serve as technical support to Production, Quality, Reliability, Chain, Sales, Marketing, Engineering Test & Manufacturing Process Engineering departments on new and existing designs.
• Prepare application notes, technical articles, test plans & catalog specs for publication.
• Interface with Operations, Quality Assurance, Reliability and Strategic Sourcing groups to guide device and material qualification efforts and manufacturability reviews. Responsible for ensuring products not only meet performance requirements but are reliable and manufacturable as well.
• Evaluate components, materials & suppliers.
• Create a map of competing technologies and elaborate a SWOT analysis of our current LTCC offerings within that context
• Lead and actively participate in design review meetings.
• Provide technical support directly to customers.
• Promote and contribute the Patent/IP Program.
• Solve technical, operational and…