RF/Analog IC Design Engineer

Company:

Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > RFIC Design

General Summary:

Define, design and develop complex radio frequency integrated circuits in complex SoC’s and discrete RFIC’s. Perform radio signal path and circuit topology analysis and detailed transistor-level design of highly-integrated transceivers and associated blocks for wireless applications, 4G, 5G, WLAN, BT and GPS standards using advanced process technologies. Utilize complex analysis, simulation, engineering, science and mathematical principles to compose algorithm structures to solve problems. Assess processing requirements and select devices to meet requirements. Debug and assess performance of algorithms in actual application hardware. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with 3+ years of experience with designing RF/Analog circuits for wireless products (e.g., LNA's, PLL's) and 6+ years of ASIC design, verification, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field and 6+ years of ASIC design, verification, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, or related work experience.

• 2+ years of academic or professional experience using two or more of the following software: CADENCE, Virtuoso, ADS.
• 2+ years of product experience with conception, design, and commercialization.

Preferred Qualifications:

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
•    Leads team to determine circuit-level specifications based on system-level requirements.
•    Leads team to develop module-level architecture and design of multiple complex blocks based on specifications. 
•    Works effectively with incomplete, ambiguous or conflicting requirements to successfully resolve complex architecture and design problems.
•    Leads others and independently runs simulations to determine how circuits perform under various circumstances.
•    Leads team to floor-plan layout; collaborate with layout engineers to generate the layout of circuits and conduct physical verification on the layout; perform detailed review of generated layout.
•    Reviews module-level test plans and reviews test results from more junior team members and provides instructions for test engineers; develops complex algorithms for testing new features.
•    Ensure that bugs are fully understood and analyzed; responsible for helping to resolve complex internal and end-customer issues.
•    Develops deep knowledge of industry trends, previous generation's advances, competitors' products, and advances related to RFICs.
•    Leads conversations to generate new ideas and directions to explore for next generation RFICs; pursues opportunities to plan and develop new ideas.
•    Review and writes clear and detailed technical documentation and feature descriptions for highly complex or difficult projects to guide users; reviews and provides feedback on more junior engineers' documentation.

Level of Responsibility:
•    Working independently with little supervision.
•    Providing supervision to others who may be direct reports.
•    Making decisions that are moderate in impact; errors may have relatively minor financial impact or effect on projects, operations, or customer relationships; errors may require involvement beyond immediate work group to correct. 
•    Using verbal and written communication skills to convey information that may be somewhat complex to others who may have limited knowledge of the subject in question. May require basic negotiation and influence, cooperation, tact, and diplomacy, etc. 
•    Working within prescribed budget and resources.
•    Having a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to provide input on key decisions).
•    Completing tasks that do not have defined steps; simultaneous use of multiple mental abilities is generally required to determine the best approach; mistakes may result in significant rework.
•    Exercising substantial creativity to innovate new processes, procedures, or work products within guidelines or to achieve established objectives.
•    Using deductive and inductive problem solving; multiple approaches may be taken/necessary to solve the problem; often information is missing or incomplete; advanced data analysis/interpretation skills may be required.
•    Occasionally participates in strategic planning within own area affecting immediate operations.