Senior Staff Engineer, RFIC Design

pSemi Corporation is a Murata company driving semiconductor integration. pSemi builds on Peregrine Semiconductor’s 30-year legacy of technology advancements and strong IP portfolio but with a new mission—to enhance Murata’s world-class capabilities with high-performance semiconductors. With a strong foundation in RF integration, pSemi’s product portfolio now spans power management, connected sensors, optical transceivers, antenna tuning and RF frontends. These intelligent and efficient semiconductors enable advanced modules for smartphones, base stations, personal computers, electric vehicles, data centers, IoT devices and healthcare. From headquarters in San Diego and offices around the world, pSemi’s team explores new ways to make electronics for the connected world smaller, thinner, faster and better.

Job Summary

This position will participate in and lead the design activity for 5G & 6G RF LNA/switch/coupler/PA/tunable filter products in cellular handset applications with a motivated hybrid-work team. Product line includes high performance; high volume RFFE ICs with LNAs, multi-throw RF switches with filter tuning and integrated couplers, PA and controllers, tunable filters in die form. This position will direct the development of products during the entire product life cycle from product definition through product release to end-of-life. As part of a dynamic cross-functional product development team the senior staff engineer will support other essential disciplines including marketing and applications, project management, characterization, production and test engineering. The senior staff engineer is expected to successfully complete product development with little to no oversight and be proactive in identifying and resolving potential product issues.

Roles & Responsibilities

This position has responsibility for:

• Product Definition: Assist Marketing in defining new products through feasibility studies and technical competitive analyses
• Product Design and Evaluation: Schematic Capture, IC layout, Simulation, Package Analysis, Evaluation Board Design, Design Validation, and mentoring junior engineers
• Product Documentation: Document all relevant product and design information to educate others on novel design techniques and provide guidance on product usage
• Product Characterization: Work with Characterization and Test Engineers to define, conduct and analyze data from product performance characterization
• Production ATE Development: Work with Test Engineers to define, develop and ramp production ATE solutions
• Product Support: Work with Applications, Product, Test and Manufacturing Engineers to help answer customer questions, assess field failures, support yield improvements, etc.
• Technology Development: work with Technologists to define the technology roadmap, addressing the performance and functional requirements of the product roadmap

Minimum Qualifications (Experience and Skills)

• 8 years of RF/analog IC product development depending on education level with strong technical skills including:
• CMOS IC design for commercial applications - SOI and/or bulk processes
• RF IC design – LNAs, switches, couplers, tunable filters, etc.
• EM simulation experience desired
• Understanding of non-linear effects in transistors
• Knowledge of IC fabrication and how this impacts circuit performance
• Familiarity with analog & RF IC layout techniques
• Hands on use of RF measurement equipment to validate performance
• Software tools: Cadence, ADS, HFSS, EMX, Matlab, JMP, MS Project, National Instruments CVI

Preferred Qualifications

• Strength in documentation clarity and completeness
• Ability to clearly assess and manage risk
• Team player with a strong sense of urgency to meet product requirements on schedule
• Leader who can help develop the technical skills of the team

Minimum Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent degree); MSEE or PhD preferred

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. This position requires the ability to occasionally lift office products and supplies, up to 20 pounds.

USD 187,342.90 - 243,559.26 per year

pSemi Corporation supports a diverse workforce and is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees. pSemi does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions or breastfeeding), gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, national origin (including language use restrictions and possession of a driver’s license issued under Vehicle Code section 12801.9), ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally-protected medical condition, military or veteran status (including “protected veterans” under applicable affirmative action laws), marital status, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state or federal laws applicable to the Company. pSemi also prohibits discrimination based on the perception that an employee or applicant has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.
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