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Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

EM Design Engineer - RFIC Design

RF & Microwave EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSanta Clara, CA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Experience designing and developing RF passive components for RF integrated circuits, including in deep sub-micron CMOS and SOI technologies.
  • Experience optimizing component sizes and performance for RF circuit blocks in collaboration with circuit designers.
  • Experience delivering compact models and DRC-clean physical designs.
  • Experience conducting isolation analysis and optimization to reduce on-chip and chip-to-package coupling.
  • Experience optimizing multichip carriers for RF systems, focusing on loss and isolation.
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and 3+ years of experience designing RF/analog circuits for wireless products, such as LNAs or PLLs, plus 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, or related work experience; or a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, or related work experience; or a PhD in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
  • At least 2 years of academic or professional experience using two or more of CADENCE, Virtuoso, and ADS.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop RF passive components for next-generation highly integrated RF integrated circuits in deep sub-micron 6nm and 14ff CMOS and SOI technologies.
  • Work with the circuit design team to optimize component sizes and performance for RF circuit blocks.
  • Deliver components that include compact models and DRC-clean physical designs.
  • Execute isolation analysis and optimization to reduce on-chip and chip-to-package coupling.
  • Optimize multichip carriers for RF systems, focusing on loss and isolation.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience designing and simulating RF passive components such as inductors, transformers, MOM capacitors, and passive filters.
  • Demonstrated ability with EM simulation techniques and tools, including MoM EM solvers, HFSS, and EMX.
  • Experience with circuit design and layout using Cadence tools and Agilent ADS.
  • Compact RLCK model extraction of multiport passive components.
  • Ability to use EM tools to predict circuit-level electric and magnetic coupling.
  • Experience in project leadership and multitasking.

About the Company

Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

Qualcomm designs the Snapdragon processors and modems inside many Android phones, and it licenses its wireless patents to device makers around the world. It helped commercialize CDMA, the cellular technology behind 3G networks, and its patents cover core parts of the 4G and 5G standards that phones use to connect. The company does not run its own chip factories; contract foundries make its chips, which it sells to makers of phones, PCs, cars, and connected devices. Device makers also pay Qualcomm royalties for using its patented technology, which forms a second business alongside chip sales. Qualcomm was founded in 1985 and is based in San Diego, California.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Diego, CA
Founded
1985

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