RF Design Engineer Job Description
RF design engineer
provides technical pre-sales support and guidance to the India sales organization, prospects, and customers in the domains of signal processing, communication, mixed-signal, and RF system design by:.
RF Design Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Provide leadership and direction to your team other network teams
Conduct data analysis, pattern studies and trade studies leading to successful design and integration of commercial communication RF design standards (802.11ac, 4G-LTE, GSM(2G), UMTS(3G), HSPA, CDMA) within an aerospace environment
Learn and follow company processes for product development, configuration management, purchasing
Prepares, reviews, and recommends circuit design of components
Performs engineering research
Conducts project coordination and review meetings
Conduct RF circuit measurements using laboratory spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, network analyzers
Provide design and project support in the areas of project leadership, regulation, reliability, and components selections
Verify that designs meet requirements through analysis, simulation, and measurement
Manage DRC Waivers process and drive any required enablement and tool enhancements
RF Design Engineer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for RF Design Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: RF, FAA, OEM, DAS, CFR, ITAR, EU, FCC, EMC, EMI
Education for RF Design Engineer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the RF design engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Science, Design, Technology, Education, Physics, Math, Technical, Mathematics
Skills for RF Design Engineer
Desired skills for RF design engineer include:
Related disciplines
RF and radar signal processing
Schematic Capture
Signal Generator
Spectrum Analyzer
3D EM field simulation tools
Fiber optics
Microwave photonics hardware development
Optics
Opto-electronics
Desired experience for RF design engineer includes:
Knowledge of propagation modeling software such as Planet EV, Atoll – Expert level experience in Atoll a plus
Ability to demonstrate leadership skills by causing influence within the group and being recognized as a leader within and outside of his/her work group
Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or other comparable technical field preferred
Knowledge of RF designs associated with of the following industry standards
BS degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent required
At least three years of direct RF and analog design experience required
RF Design Engineer Examples
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RF Design Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a RF design engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for RF design engineer
- Design of broadband matching networks including passives, wire bonds, single layer caps and PCB level techniques
- Multistage circuit design and layouts based on existing designs
- Specification and ordering of ancillary discrete components
- Packaged transistor modeling using industry standard circuit simulators and custom models
- Experience working on Fixed Wireless Networks, particularly with LTE TDD
- Experience working on major project involving network wide Capacity upgrade
- Programming skills will be looked on favourably, particularly in languages such as MapBasic, VBA (Excel), Python, SQL, Java or C#.net
- Have been involved in projects with Radio Network Expansion activities
- Knowledge of Australian telecommunications environment (eg typical challenges faced, ACMA regulations, RFNSA and EME compliance requirements)
- Australian drivers licence or equivalent
Qualifications for RF design engineer
- Solid knowledge of RF theory and practice LTE/VoLTE Technology
- Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science preferred
- Excellent knowledge of Excel including VB macro creation and worksheet manipulation
- Prefer over 1 year of experience, but not required
- 0 to 3 years of mechanical design experience in fixtures, test stations, test
- Systems, or probes
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RF Design Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a RF design engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for RF design engineer
- Developing requirements for and designs of missile terminal homing RF seekers
- Active and passive seeker design including antenna, transmit and receive subsystems
- Develop and use tools to model existing missile RF seekers and examine potential designs
- Develop and implement RF detection processing
- Develop and implement Automatic gain control algorithms
- Develop and implement Track loop processing algorithms
- Develop and implement Target identification/discrimination algorithms
- Develop and implement Electronic countermeasure protection
- Develop and implement Gimbal-server control loop algorithms
- Analyze, Design, and Implement Waveforms and associated signal processing design
Qualifications for RF design engineer
- Masters or PhD • Experience/knowledge of mechanical CAD tools • Experience with RF measurements or testing • Experience with antenna design or antenna vendors • Experience at working with external suppliers and contract manufacturers • Experience with portable consumer electronic devices
- Typically requires at least 5+ years of experience in RF/analog CMOS design
- Experience designing fractional-N PLLs, sigma-delta PLLs, and VCOs
- Strong knowledge of loop design to optimize for phase noise/jitter, lock time, reference spur, area, power
- Understanding of device physics and demonstrated ability to apply that to optimize noise, power, area, frequency of PLL blocks
- Knowledge of bandgaps, bias, opamps, LDOs, feedback, and compensation techniques
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RF Design Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a RF design engineer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for RF design engineer
- Present technical work to group members, management, and customers
- Write technical memos and white papers that summarize research, threat capabilities, or other areas of interest or concern
- Provide a technical expertise at meetings with DoD officials, laboratories, and industry partners
- Participate in design reviews for Naval AAW and MDA BMD systems
- Design of wireless hardware for products through the product development process
- Develop, calibrate, deploy, and maintain physically predictive simulation decks for 5nm and beyond technologies
- Design GaN high power amplifiers
- Contribute to the crushing of inferior technologies such as GaAs and LDMOS and dominate the market
- Design, regulatory and implementation clarification/coordination for macros, small cells and In-Building
- Provide detailed cost evaluations for In Building DAS projects
Qualifications for RF design engineer
- Minimum BS Electrical Engineering and 6 years’ experience or AA degree plus 10 years’ experience
- Ability to work with early PDKs
- Minimum 5 years’ highly integrated RF and/or millimeter wave IC physical design and verification experience in leading edge CMOS and/or CMOS/SOI technologies
- Experience with physical design and verification of high performance RF/millimeter wave transmitter, receiver, PLL and/or power amplifier subsystems
- Circuit block experience with RF VCO, dividers, LO buffers, LNAs, DACs, ADCs, Mixers, PAs and/or LDOs
- Familiarity with custom design version control with tools such as ICManage or Cliosoft SoS
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RF Design Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a RF design engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for RF design engineer
- Maintain and improve InBldg DAS network performance targets
- Configure datafill and integrate new InBldg DAS solutions into the existing network
- Participate in project completion through the Access Operations Zone Teams
- Interface with customers to understand service concerns and coordinate resolution activities
- Characterize millimeter-wave ICs in detail to validate all the features and performance specifications
- Develop characterization schemes for mm-wave products and perform mm-wave performance measurements
- Work on measurement automation and strategy
- Determine the evaluation kit parts for mm-wave products and organize the EVK development phases
- Develop user interfaces and control/test software for EVK’s
- Develop module level architectures and analysis including detailed material and device selection
Qualifications for RF design engineer
- 3 years of compound semiconductor hybrid or MMIC high power amplifier experience
- Experience designing high power and high efficiency power amplifiers through use of large signal models
- A strong background in RF and Microwave measurements and familiarity with common software tools are a must
- Hands-on experience with board level tuning and optimization of amplifier matching networks
- Working knowledge of latest communications standards such as LTE and WiMAX in terms of power amplifier measurements and related specifications
- Experience using third party power amplifier linearization systems, digital pre-distortion (DPD)
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RF Design Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a RF design engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for RF design engineer
- Create test plans and verify prototype designs in the lab generally with both connectorized and probe station test equipment
- Work closely with internal individuals and external vendors to a) insure designs are consistent with manufacturing constraints, including Design-For-Manufacturing (DFM) and Design-For-Test (DFT)
- Develop test plans and perform module level design verification in the lab
- Work closely with manufacturing to resolve process related performance issues to root cause and corrective action
- Develop hardware documents such as technical assessments, implementation specifications and layered specification documents
- Participate in technical discussions and exchanges regarding technology developments, next generation developments and roadmaps
- Design, debug, and test Radio Frequency (RF) and Analog Circuits (power amplifier, low-noise amplifier and filter design)
- Analog and RF IC design
- Verification and documentation
- Support of packaging, qualification and sales
Qualifications for RF design engineer
- MSEE and have a minimum of 5 years circuit design/measurement experience
- Demonstrated ability to design within program cost and schedule constraints
- 8 years circuit design/measurement experience with at least 5 years on GaAs or GaN hybrid or MMIC high power amplifiers
- Experienced user of Axiem and Sonnet electromagnetic modeling software
- Experienced user of microwave test equipment such as modern spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzer, signal generators, power meters
- Experience making measurements with latest communications standards such as LTE and WiMAX in terms of power amplifier specifications