Job Description:

Senior RF/Mixed-Signal IC Design Engineer (Analog/Mixed-Signal focus)

Location: San Diego, California
Status: Full-time/Direct-hire

Duties:

• You will work with a team of IC designers and systems engineers to lead the development of data conversion and signal processing blocks for company’s next-generation products.
• You will define architectures based on high-level specifications and lead the implementation of these circuits.
• You will participate in integration of these designs into the products and will be responsible for design validation, debug, and characterization through product release.

Requirements:

• Candidate should have 5+ years of experience designing ADCs, DACs, power management circuits, continuous-time analog filters, switched-capacitor circuits, or other major mixed-signal blocks.
• Candidate should be familiar with a variety of architectures for each type of circuit, and you must show a clear understanding of design choices and tradeoffs required to meet key specifications.
• Candidate’s experience should include taking designs from concept through productization.
• Candidate must have sufficient familiarity with RF circuits and PLLs to optimize your designs in the context of the full signal path.
• Candidate must have familiarity with wireless or wire-line communication specifications and derivation of block-level requirements from these high-level specifications.
• Candidate should have hands-on experience testing your own designs in the lab, and you must be able to define characterization and production test techniques for all building blocks.
• Communication and presentation skills are critical, and you should show a strong desire and potential to lead technology development.
• Education: Master of Science or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering.