Senior Staff Engineer, RF Analog IC 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

 

The Senior Staff Engineer plays a critical role in the design of RF ICs using pSemi’s UltraCMOS® technology, contributing to product lines such as high-performance RF switches, mixers, prescalers, PLLs, and RF receiver and transmit front-ends. This position supports the full product lifecycle—from definition and design through validation and release—while providing technical leadership and mentorship within the engineering team. The engineer works collaboratively with cross-functional groups including marketing, applications, and test engineering to ensure robust product performance and alignment with market needs.

 

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

 

Minimum Qualifications (Experience and Skills)

• 8 - 12 years of experience in analog integrated circuit design and power management circuit design depending on level of education and experience

• PMIC design – Advanced knowledge of Switching regulators, Charge Pumps, LDO regulators, Voltage and Current references
• Experience in CMOS IC design for commercial applications - bulk and/or SOI processes
• Proficient in RF IC design – RF switches, power amplifiers, mixers, PLLs, etc.
• Proficient in Analog IC design – band-gap voltage references, low-drop out voltage regulators, operational amplifiers etc.
• Knowledge of IC fabrication and how this impacts circuit performance.
• Basic analog & RF IC layout skills

 

Preferred Qualifications

• IC, package and PCB co-simulation using 2.5D or 3D EM tools.
• Strength in documentation clarity and completeness
• Ability to clearly assess and manage risk
• Team player with a strong sense of urgency to meet product requirements on schedule
• Hands on use of RF measurement equipment to validate performance
• Software tools: Cadence, ADS, HFSS, Momentum, Matlab, JMP, MS Project, Datapower, National Instruments CVI

 

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Master’s or PhD preferred

 

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment.