
Staff MMIC Design Engineer
Qorvo, Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Richardson • Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Technical lead role for MMIC based product development.
- MMIC design using linear and nonlinear models and 2.5D and 3D electromagnetic simulators.
- Integrate MMIC(s) into single or multichip modules.
- Manage product checkout, optimization, and design verification testing (DVT) in the Microwave Lab.
- Execute DVT analysis and present results to the internal and/or external customer.
- Support product through critical lifecycle stages including concept/feasibility, development, qualification, and production.
- Publish novel design work internally or externally (IMS, BCICTS, GOMAC, etc.) to promote Qorvo’s technology and design capabilities.
- Submit invention disclosures for potential patents where applicable.
Requirements
- Recent and relevant experience designing RFIC and/or MMIC amplifiers, switches, phase shifters, attenuators, time-delay units (TDUs), hybrid multichip modules, or transmit/receive front-end modules (FEMs).
- Experience in advanced III-V compound semiconductor technologies, specifically GaN and GaAs.
- Understanding of FET behavioral characteristics is desired.
- User of either ADS or Microwave Office (MWO) nonlinear simulators; and one or more of the following 2.5D or 3D EM simulation tools: SONNET, Axiem, Momentum, or HFSS.
- Understanding microwave measurements and calibration methods: S-parameters, power, efficiency, source/load pull, noise figure, linearity, and intermodulation distortion.
- Strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to concisely summarize highly technical concepts.
- BS Electrical Engineering with 8 or more years of experience
- MS Electrical Engineering with 6 or more years of experience
- PhD Electrical Engineering (with RF/Microwave focus) with 2 or more years of experience.
Benefits
- Relocation Eligible: Yes
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship by the Company.
- This position requires work on US Government contracts. Applicants must be a US Person (US citizen, permanent resident, asylee or refugee).
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Hard skills
MMIC designRFIC designamplifiersswitchesphase shiftersattenuatorstime-delay unitshybrid multichip modulestransmit/receive front-end modulesIII-V compound semiconductor technologies
Soft skills
strong written communicationstrong oral communicationability to summarize technical concepts
Certifications
BS Electrical EngineeringMS Electrical EngineeringPhD Electrical Engineering