Senior RFIC Design Engineer

We’re hiring a Senior RFIC Design Engineer at our San Diego, CA location!

Join a stable, long-term opportunity where your work matters. We’re hiring a Senior RFIC Design Engineer to support production and ensure high-quality output in a fast-paced manufacturing setting.

Pay Range - $ to $ annually (Ac tual 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

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 stride 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

The Senior RFIC Design Engineer develops high-performance RF and analog integrated circuits for advanced wireless and sensing products. Works with circuit architecture, transistor-level design, layout, verification, silicon characterization, and productization. Works closely with RF Systems, Layout, Package, Test, Firmware, and Product Engineering teams to translate product requirements into robust, production-ready silicon.

• Design and verify RF, analog, and mixed-signal circuit blocks from specification and topology selection through transistor-level implementation, layout, extraction, and signoff.
• Analyze circuit tradeoffs involving performance, power, area, noise, linearity, gain, bandwidth, matching, stability, process variation, and reliability.
• Contribute to the development of RFIC building blocks such as amplifiers, mixers, oscillators, frequency-generation circuits, data converters, filters, bias circuits, regulators, detectors, and calibration circuits.
• Work with system engineers to derive block-level specifications, allocate design margins, and evaluate interactions between circuit blocks and the overall signal chain.
• Plan and run schematic, post-layout, PVT, Monte Carlo, EM, mixed-signal, and reliability simulations; document results and address performance gaps.
• Partner with layout engineers on floor planning, critical-device placement, routing, shielding, matching, parasitic control, physical verification, and design-for-manufacturability.
• Support RFIC-package-PCB co-simulation and evaluate the impact of interconnects, passives, coupling, supply integrity, and thermal effects on circuit performance.
• Develop characterization plans, support laboratory measurements and silicon debug, and…