Principal Engineer, RFIC Design

Join Kyocera International, Inc. We’re hiring a Principal Engineer, RFIC Design at our San Diego, CA location!

Join Kyocera International, Inc. We’re hiring a Principal Engineer, RFIC Design at our San Diego, CA location! Join a stable, long-term opportunity where your work matters. We’re hiring a Principal Engineer, RFIC Design to support production and ensure high-quality output in a fast-paced manufacturing setting.

Pay Range - $ to $ annually (Actual base pay based on factors such as relevant experience, education, market, qualifications, and skills.)

With nearly 80,000 employees globally, Kyocera is a leading manufacturer of high-tech ceramics in various industries, including aerospace, automotive, Medical applications, and semiconductor processing. Our innovative materials are found in everything from smartphones to space shuttles! Check out our profile video!

Look at these PERKS!

• Competitive pay, benefits, and hours
• 120 hours of vacation accrued per year to start (that's 3 weeks/year for regular 8-hour shifts!)
• 10 Paid Holidays per year
• 401(k) with company match
• Pension
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible schedules
• Tuition reimbursement

We have a long-tenured staff (many with over 30 years of service!), a vital company mission, and an excellent benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, paid time off to volunteer, paid leave options, tuition reimbursement, an employer-paid Pension and a 401(k) with both Roth and a healthy company match. Our larger locations also feature onsite gyms, walking tracks, exercise rooms, and employee gardens!

We strive to have a diverse workforce from all backgrounds, including minorities, women, and veterans, who bring their experience to support the innovation and quality that Kyocera is known for.

Kyocera International, Inc. also has a robust corporate culture and philosophy based on the experiences and writings of our founder, Dr. Kazuo Inamori, which you can learn more about here:  Our company motto is “Do the right thing as a human being,” and we try to use that motto constantly in our decision-making.

Exempt: Yes

• Lead the architecture, design, layout, integration, verification, characterization, and productization of complex RFIC blocks or modules from concept through production ramp.
• Translate system requirements into block and module specifications, establish performance budgets, and make tradeoffs across power, area, noise, linearity, gain, bandwidth, phase noise, stability, calibration, thermal performance, and reliability.
• Perform hands-on design in one or more areas such as receivers, transmitters, PLLs and frequency synthesizers, LO generation and distribution, analog baseband, biasing, power management, calibration, or transceiver integration.
• Drive schematic, post-layout, PVT, Monte Carlo, EM, mixed-signal, electrothermal, and reliability verification; identify technical risks and close performance gaps using simulation and measurement.
• Guide floor planning and critical layout, including device matching, parasitic control, shielding, isolation, power integrity, passive structures, and physical verification.
• Lead RFIC-package-PCB-antenna co-design and modeling to account for interconnects, coupling, passives, supply integrity, thermal effects, and conducted or over-the-air performance.
• Define silicon characterization and production-test strategies with Test and Product Engineering, including observability, calibration, guard bands, yield analysis, and correlation between simulation, bench measurements, and ATE.
• Lead silicon debug and resolve complex circuit, integration, customer, field, and yield issues in collaboration with Systems, Layout,…