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Senior RF Design Engineer
Summary:
- The successful RF Engineer candidate will have a good background in RF and Transceiver board level design, a strong theoretical system level understanding & practical work experience of system partitioning issues. Candidate must be highly energetic and have experience working within cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities:
- Develop RF sub assemblies for wireless Basestation and Repeater products from specifications to production.
- Interface with System, DSP, Firmware and Hardware Engineers to produce innovative solutions for the wireless CDMA, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, GSM and WIMAX Basestation and Repeater markets.
Key Requirements:
- BSEE with 5-7 Years experience a must, MSc and/or Ph.D. preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in analysis, design, and PCB layout of RF circuits & components for wireless infrastructure equipment.
- Design, characterization, troubleshooting and optimization experience of RF power devices & supporting interface circuity.
- Design experience with up/down converters, modulators, IF/RF filters, PLLs, RF splitter/combiner networks, power detectors, RF switches, & RF device matching.
- Hands on experience developing RF products from high-level specs to production.
- Working knowledge of various OFDM and CDMA based specifications.
- Experience of modeling high-level wireless system performance using tools such as VSS, Excel, Spice, Matlab, MathCAD, ADS.
- Ability to use the appropriate tools and RF test bench equipment (Network analyzers, Impedance analyzers, RF probe stations, Spectrum analyzers, Signal generators).
- Motivated & proactive attitude coupled with good ability to work independently or as part of a team.
- Strong command of written and spoken English.
Desirable Experience:
- Experience developing Basestation, Repeater RF power amplifiers using Class AB LDMOS and Class A GaAs Devices and MMICs capable of transmitting at least 15 Watts average power.
- Knowledgeable of linearization & efficiency enhancing techniques for high power RF amplifiers.
- Working knowledge of Physical Layer parameters of modern CDMA, WCDMA & OFDM based communication standards.
- Wireless Infrastructure Baseband Circuitry and requirements.
Experience with the following is a big plus:
- ACPR, ACLR, PA EVM, EM Test Equipment, Device Characterization, Understanding load-pull measurements, Verification, Circuit modeling, Circuit simulations, Thermal modeling, PA modules, Harmonic Balance.
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