Electronic Design Engineer, Senior/Principal

Company Overview:

MACOM designs and manufactures semiconductor products for Data Center, Telecommunication, and Industrial and Defense applications. Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, MACOM has design centers and sales offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. MACOM is certified to the ISO9001 international quality standard and ISO14001 environmental management standard.

MACOM has more than 75 years of application expertise with multiple design centers, Si, GaAs, and InP fabrication, manufacturing, assembly and test, and operational facilities throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. View our facilities at https://www.macom.com/. In addition, MACOM offers foundry services that represents a key core competency within our business.

MACOM sells and distributes products globally via a sales channel comprised of a direct field sales force, authorized sales representatives, and leading industry distributors. Our sales team is trained across all of our products to give our customers insights into our entire portfolio.

Job Title: Electronic Design Engineer, Senior / Principal

Position Overview: The Electronic Design Engineer, Senior / Principal will utilize in depth knowledge to develop, design, maintain, or improve electrical and photonics components, products, or systems for Commercial, Aerospace & Defense and other wireless applications. Will demonstrate conceptual and practical expertise in electronic design challenges and basic knowledge of related disciplines.

Key Responsibilities:

• Requires specialized depth and/or knowledge or expertise in the design, drafting, test, and release of new electronics products, devices, circuits, and/or systems. Products include analog RF fiber optic links, high-speed digital fiber optic transceivers and fiber optic amplifiers. Products utilize microprocessors and firmware.
• Be responsible for all design activities and related product development activities from kick-off through engineering evaluation and write test and assembly plans and procedures.
• Acts as a resource to develop team atmosphere together with our transistor designers, our application, and device engineering teams.
• Initiate prototype builds and manage product characterization. Design evaluation boards and characterization fixtures, direct or perform measurements, and process and present evaluation data against the product development goals.
• Provide clear status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing test data.
• Expert in formal stage-gate new product introduction process.
• Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with other others.
• Awareness of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market.
• Impacts a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other related teams, acts as resource for colleagues.
• Work with our Product Engineering group to transfer products to production.

Key Competencies & Skills required:

• In depth understanding of a variety of RF/Microwave/mmWave, optical networking circuit architectures.
• Knowledge of electronics board design (schematics) and writing software/firmware requirements for electronic boards with microprocessors is required.
• Analyzes best practices to improve product, processes, or services.
• Strong ability to solve complex problems and takes a new perspective on existing solutions.
• Fluent with relevant electronics simulation tools, software, and test equipment (spectrum analyzer, network analyzer, power meter, etc.).
• Fluent in Electro-magnetic and/or Electro-optic simulations, thermal simulation.
• Experienced with integration and experience designing for high yield and low cost.
• Strong knowledge of the operation and calibration of industry standard test equipment.
• Experience with the design of evaluation boards including both electrical and thermal aspects.
• Familiarity with AutoCAD or other drawing packages is desirable.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office products.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s deg