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RFIC Design Engineer

San Diego, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2025-10-02 → 2026-09-28

Core

Architect, design, and validate radio transceivers integrated into wireless System-on-Chips (SoCs) to deliver high-performance wireless connectivity solutions for hundreds of millions of products.

Role type

Senior IC RFIC Design Engineer

Builds

Wireless SoCs with integrated radio transceivers (TX, RX, PLL-LOGen)

Domain

Consumer electronics / Wireless RFIC / Analog Mixed-Signal

Required skills

Analog circuit design, RF circuit design, Mixed-signal design, Transistor-level design, Power/area/performance trade-off analysis, Silicon characterization, Debugging, EM simulation, Circuit simulation

Preferred skills

Wireless transceiver mass production experience, RF transceiver architecture expertise, Modulation impact analysis, Digital-analog partitioning, Mixed-signal verification methodology

Technologies

Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre RF, Matlab, EMX, HFSS, SystemVerilog, AMS, Nanotime

Responsibilities

Provide RFIC designs for wireless SoC from concept to mass production; Design and deliver radio transceiver building blocks including TX, RX, and PLL-LOGen; Collaborate with RF Systems on block-level specifications and spec margin distribution; Design RF and Analog loopbacks for calibration and compensation; Address Co-Existence scenarios; Collaborate with test engineers on chip setup, debugging, and optimization; Provide design versus silicon measurements correlation.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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