Qualcomm RF/Analog IC Design Engineer 

United States, California 

496463186

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > RFIC Design

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 8+ years of ASIC design, verification, or related work experience.

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field and 8+ years of ASIC design, verification, or related work experience.

PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field and 6+ 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:

• 3+ years experience in the transistor level design of RF analog integrated circuits with a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering.

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with internship or publication.

• 8+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: Design of receiver and transmitter RF/Analog circuits, Design of high-performance RF frequency synthesizers, Digital control and signal processing, Product experience from conception, design, and product commercialization, Electro Magnetic simulation/modeling.

• 5+ year of product experience with conception, design, and product commercialization.

• 4+ years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports (only applies to positions with direct reports).

• 4+ years of experience working in a large matrixed organization.

• 3+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Sr. Director and above).

• 1+ year of working with operating budgets and/or project financials.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leads team and provides technical expertise to ensure circuit-level specifications are in alignment with system-level requirements.

• Leads team and provides technical expertise to define the entire architecture and design of circuits and make appropriate trade-offs between performance, power, and costs.

• Acts as the technical expert in resolving highly complex architecture and design problems when provided with incomplete, ambiguous or conflicting requirements.

• Provides technical guidance on running simulations to test and improve circuit performance.

• Leads team and provides technical expertise on collaborating with layout engineers to generate the layout of circuits and conduct physical verification on the layout; perform detailed review of generated layout.

• Directs team to develop new chip-level test plans and/or add additional test cases when necessary to assess performance; secure test resources.

• Ensure that the most complex bugs are fully understood and analyzed; coordinates the team's efforts to resolve internal and end-customer issues.

• Acts as a domain expert to others on industry trends, previous generation's advances, competitors' products, and advances related to RFICs.

• Guides team members to develop new ideas and directions to explore for next generation RFICs; reviews recommendations and provides feedback to team members.

• Guides team members and writes clear and detailed technical documentation and feature descriptions; reviews and provides feedback on documentations for highly complex or difficult projects.

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 complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. Role may require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.

• Developing and administering budgets, schedules, and performance standards for functional area within the prescribed budgetary objectives of the department.

• Having a great degree of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is making or directly making key decisions that have substantial impact on the organization).

• 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 exceptional creativity to innovate new ideas and develop innovative products/processes without established objectives or known parameters.

• Working on abstract problems in variable situations that typically require complex analysis, interpretation, or evaluation of intangible factors; directing the resolution of complex problems that have impact beyond own area; participating in corporate development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people.

• Participating in the organization's planning process, interpreting business strategies, establishing strategic plans and objectives for multiple areas and functions; decisions may affect entire organization.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

Pay range:

$199,500.00 - $299,500.00