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 RF front-end receivers or transmitters products in both Sub-6GHz and mm-Wave massive MIMO 5G Wireless Infrastructure applications.  Product line includes all RF blocks including high performance, low cost, high volume multi-throw RF switches, LNAs, Amplifiers, transceivers, and Multi-Chip Modules. 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 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
• Team leadership: provide technical mentoring to junior design team members; help design manager with resource planning and cross functional team efforts

Competency Requirements
In order to perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Critical Thinking: Skilled at finding logical flaws in arguments and plans; identifies problems and solutions that others might miss; provides detailed insight and constructive criticism into problems and complex situations
• Working with Ambiguity: Achieves forward progress in the face of poorly defined situations and/or unclear goals; able to work effectively with limited or partial information. 
• Displaying Technical Expertise: Keeps his/her technical skills current; effectively applies specialized knowledge and skills to perform work tasks; understands and masters the technical skills, knowledge, and tasks associated with his/her job; shares technical expertise with others
• Driving for Results:  Aggressively pursues challenging goals and objectives; will to put in considerable time and effort to accomplish objectives; takes a highly focused, goal driven approach toward work
• Making Accurate Judgments and Decisions: Bases decisions on a systematic review of relevant facts and information; avoids making assumptions or rushing to judgment; provides clear rationale for decisions

Minimum Qualifications (Experience and Skills)

• 12 years of RF/analog IC product development with strong technical skills including:
• CMOS IC design for commercial applications – both bulk and SOI processes
• Familiarity with SiGe and GaAs technology and design.
• RF IC design – switches, LNAs, PAs, VCO, Mixers in RF and mm-Wave range.
• EM simulation experience desired
• Analog IC design - bandgap voltage references, low-drop out voltage regulators, operational amplifiers etc.
• Understanding of