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Senior RF Design Engineer - CATV
Mini-CircuitsSanta Rosa, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 1 Aug 2025
💰 $221,000/yr($147,000/yr – $221,000/yr)
About the role
Mini-Circuits designs, manufactures and distributes integrated circuits, modules, and sub-systems for high-performance radio frequency (RF) and microwave applications. With design, sales and manufacturing locations in over 30 countries, Mini-Circuits’ products are used in a range of wired and wireless communications applications. Our products are also used in detection, measurement and imaging applications, including military communication, guidance and electronic countermeasure systems, commercial, scientific, military land, sea and aircraft; automotive systems, medical systems, and industrial test equipment.
Mini-Circuits’ sells its products to over 20,000 customers globally through our direct sales force, applications engineering staff, sales representatives, as well as through our extensive website. Position Summary:The Sr. RF Design Engineer provides senior contribution to the company’s CATV MMIC Engineering Product development activities. This role will focus on delivering creative designs exceeding customer expectations and being highly manufacturable to agreed specifications within time and budget constraints.The Sr. RF Design Engineer will periodically assist the Director of Product Line Engineering – CATV MMIC in crafting the strategy for the CATV MMIC business including the technical direction for the company, as well as directing the design and development of RF and Microwave discrete components blending theoretical emphasis with strong practical bench skills on power amplifiers for the CATV market from concept through production. This position has reporting responsibility to the Director of Product Line Engineering – CATV MMIC and is an integral part of our design team. Salary Range: $147,000 - $221,000 per year Job Function:
Mini-Circuits’ sells its products to over 20,000 customers globally through our direct sales force, applications engineering staff, sales representatives, as well as through our extensive website. Position Summary:The Sr. RF Design Engineer provides senior contribution to the company’s CATV MMIC Engineering Product development activities. This role will focus on delivering creative designs exceeding customer expectations and being highly manufacturable to agreed specifications within time and budget constraints.The Sr. RF Design Engineer will periodically assist the Director of Product Line Engineering – CATV MMIC in crafting the strategy for the CATV MMIC business including the technical direction for the company, as well as directing the design and development of RF and Microwave discrete components blending theoretical emphasis with strong practical bench skills on power amplifiers for the CATV market from concept through production. This position has reporting responsibility to the Director of Product Line Engineering – CATV MMIC and is an integral part of our design team. Salary Range: $147,000 - $221,000 per year Job Function:
- Design and develop RF & Microwave circuits, components, and sub-assemblies, in particular power amplifiers for the CATV market. Modify existing designs to improve performance, quality, manufacturability, production yields, cost, etc.
- Accountable for implementing a device perturbation and sensitivity analysis process to insure highest possible production yields, meeting deadlines, and resolving performance issues along the way.
- Develop design plans and determine design specifications based on customer objectives and requirements.
- Develop performance criteria, including parasitic effects and process variations that affect performance of developed models.
- Work with packaging engineers to develop and verify thermal models for various design options. Oversee trips to thermal measurement facilities to gather data.
- Direct and manage the performance of the groups circuit & component analysis and simulation effort using industry MWO, ADS, HFSS and other CAD tools.
- Research & utilize latest techniques & approaches, analyze user input, identify, and establish performance standards. Develop process and procedures to verify and validate designs through simulations, tests, and reliability studies.
- Oversee Multi-Project Wafers (MPW) reticles and associated designs are done in timely manner and ensure IC layouts are completed with clean DRC. Train younger engineers in details of IC layout and reticle preparation.
- Serve as technical support to Production & Marketing departments on new and existing designs.
- Interface with MPE to develop new assembly processes for CATV amplifier products.
- Support product engineering in preparation of application notes, technical articles & catalog specs for publication.
- Support evaluation of components, materials & suppliers.
- Participate in design review meetings.
- Interface with sales, marketing and operations to bridge the gap with engineering.
- Provide technical support directly to customers. Periodically travel to customer meetings.
- Self-managed i.e. figure things out on your own.
- Solve technical, operational and group issues.
- Provide engineering execution excellence of design and development projects.
- Ensure deadlines are met and team members are held accountable.
- Provide guidance and execution on product road map.
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