Electronic Engineer

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 the ISO
9001 international quality standard and ISO
14001 environmental management standard.

MACOM has more than 75 years of application expertise with multiple design centers, Si, GaAs, and InP fabrication, manufacturing, assembly, and test, and operational facilities throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.  to view our facilities. In addition, MACOM offers foundry services that represent 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.

In MACOM's MMIC Business Unit we design MMICs and IMAs for aerospace & defense, cellular, and other wireless applications. We are looking for an Analog & Digital engineer with experience designing & analyzing circuits, power supplies, support PCBs, and test systems for RF & Millimeter Wave multi-chip modules. You will:

• Be responsible for the design, analysis, layout, test, and release of printed circuit boards embedded in RF/MMW integrated microwave assemblies.
• Design of circuits for DC filtering, voltage conversion, and power conditioning for MMICs.
• Design both analog and embedded digital circuits for control of MMICs.
• Hardware interfaces such as SPI, I2C, TCP/IP, UDP, RS-232, RS-422, RS-485, CAN Bus, UART, USB, Ethernet.
• Creating schematic circuit simulations and EM simulations where appropriate.
• Analyze analog and digital circuits using tools such as LTspice, MATLAB, TINA, QUCS, Multisim, Python, ICAP/4 SPICE, Scilab, Excel, PSpice, etc.
• Generating layouts and assembly drawings.
• Be responsible for all design activities related to product development activities from kickoff through engineering evaluations.
• Work with our MMIC design, electromagnetic design, mechanical design, assembly, and test teams to develop new products as well as production methods.
• Initiate prototype builds and manage product characterization. You will design evaluation boards and characterization fixtures, then direct or perform measurements.
• Generating design reports, progress reports, test reports, datasheets and bill of materials.
• Organizing design reviews.
• Cooperating with Project Manager in order to maintain an up-to-date project plan and schedule.
• Work with our Product Engineering group to transfer the product to production.
• Keeping up to date with latest technologies (semiconductor, assembly, packaging, tools).
• Maintaining passion for the latest in circuit board technologies and electronics in general.
• Customer support (sampling and application notes).
• Keeping up to date and maintaining passion for the latest advances in electrical & electronics engineering.
• Advocate for PCB-level analog & digital design as a function and core competency within the company.
• Generate engineering documentation, CO's, and PLM system entries for design work.
• Update design rules as required.
• Other duties as assigned.

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, M.S. preferred.
• Bona fide electronics and PCB enthusiast.
• Fluency with SPICE simulation tools.
• Fluency with several programming and/or hardware description languages. Some examples could include C/C++, C#, Ruby, R, Bash, Rust, HTBasic, VHDL, Verilog, FORTRAN, Cobol, BASIC,
  
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• Comfort working in general purpose operating systems such as Linux, Windows, Android, Steam
  
  OS, FreeBSD, DOS, Amiga
  
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• Experience designing both the hardware and software or firmware with embedded digital design tool chains for microcontrollers and FPGA's (such as Atmel, Xilinx).
• Comfort working with RTOS such as Thread
  
  X, FreeRTOS, VxWorks, RTEMS, LynxOS, QNX, Atlas Supervisor.
• Familiarity with RF/MMW IMA design techniques.
• Familiarity with RF simulation tools such as MWO or ADS (ADS preferred).
• Familiarity with EM…