RF Wireless Architects and Application Engineers

Are you interested in an exciting and challenging opportunity with a market leader in the RF industry?

About the Opportunities:

We are currently seeking 4 Senior RF Engineers for permanent employment positions in the greater RTP area of North Carolina. Relocation is necessary. This company is a market leader that provides the world's leading wireless manufacturers with the critical components they need to enable wireless devices to transmit and receive signals.

See job descriptions below.

• 2 RF Wireless Systems Architect Engineers NEEDED

• 2 RF Application Engineers for Cellular Devices NEEDED

RF Wireless Systems Architect Engineers

The successful candidate is looking for a challenge and the opportunity to drive innovation with a market leader in the RF industry. The candidate will be responsible for collaborating with customers (handset manufacturers) to define new products 2 to 4 years out. They will have 10+ years experience in the handset environment and RF Design. They will create new architectures with the customer and interface with the design engineering team to define future products.

The Primary Responsibilities of these RF systems architect engineers is to lead the systems design, architecture definition, and integration of new transmitter (PA/Front End/PMU) architectures implemented in RF integrated circuits and modules. These Engineers will be responsible for analyzing and driving:

• System architecture design

• System noise and gain analysis and simulation

• System filter line-up analysis and simulation

• System frequency planning

• Systems calibration algorithms

Necessary Skills:

• BSEE required with MSEE preferred and at least 5 years of cellular systems development experience.

• Strong design background and experience in Analog and RF circuits.

• Experience WCDMA, CDMA, GSM/GPRS, and /or EDGE is a must.

• Understanding of power amplifier, front end, and PMU design issues.

RF Application Engineers for Cellular Devices

The successful candidate is looking for a challenge and the opportunity to drive innovation with a market leader in the RF industry and will create radio reference designs, working with customers and partners to integrate RF components into handset designs. This senior level engineer will mentor junior level engineers and technicians and will work with Product Marketing to develop the technical documentation package.

The Primary Responsibilities of these RF Application Engineer will be to work as a member of a team to bring RF components to the market. This individual will:

• Interface with sales and marketing as the customer’s technical contact

• Design and analyze RF subsystems using tools such as Agilent ADS and MS Excel

• Create radio reference designs

• Work with customers and partners to integrate RF components into handset designs

• Work with PA IC designers to insure system compatibility

Necessary Skills:

• BSEE or equivalent and a minimum of 5 years work experience as an RF/Microwave Engineer. An MS degree is preferred.

• Must have 2 of the required years of experience must be in cellular handset board-level RF design/product development.

• Additional required experience includes RF board-level development, ideally for GSM/GPRS, GSM/EDGE, and/or WCDMA handset design.

Detailed Skill Requirements:

Strong overall RF experience: familiar with transmission theory, matching theory, filtering, PA (Power Amplifier) design, PA biasing, PA architectures, transceiver architectures, antennas, RF test methods, RF automation

• System level analysis and design experience for cellular phones: spec and standard translation into system level design, component performance budgeting based on system level requirement

• Front end integration of cellular phones related to power amplifiers (PA’s)

• Power control loop integration within GSM phones, and RF power detection methods

• Transceiver integration within cellular phones

• Familiarity or working experience with 3GPP, ETSI specifications

• Working experience with different modulation techniques, overall familiarity with digital communication techniques

• Simulation tools: ADS, Momentum, Mathcad (Matlab), Libra, Eagleware, SPICE, etc.

• RF Modeling or device characterization experience

• Knowledge of Smith Chart and impedance matching

• Customer interface: working experience in resolving customer technical issues, good presentation skills, friendly personality

• Good technical writing skills: responsible for technical articles, application notes, product notes, technical presentations

How to Submit Your Resume:

If this seems like a possible fit for you, please send your updated Word resume, including any skills sets listed for this job that may not be in your resume, to tom-jobs@formalized.com Insert in the subject line which position you are interested. Thank you. We review all resumes and will get back with you if we feel we have a match.

Tom Boyd
Business Development Manager
Formalized Design, Inc.
(719) 785-7922 Office
(678) 392-1596 Direct
(678) 634-9006 Cell
(815) 642-8240 Fax
www.formalized.com

Senior RFIC/MMIC Design Engineer

RFIC / MMIC DESIGN ENGINEERS NEEDED

Formalized Design, Inc. has two exciting positions available with a leading manufacturer of RF and Microwave discrete semiconductor products, wireless amplifier products, microwave amplifiers, MMIC amplifiers, and hybrid modules. These are permanent positions, but contracts will be considered. Salary is based on experience and work history.

• Senior RFIC/MMIC Design Engineer

• Senior RFIC/MMIC Design Lead/Engineer

About the Opportunity:

Our client is a growing company focusing on high performance GaAs based microwave devices, MMIC’s, and microwave amplifier module products for wireless communication, military, and industrials applications.

Located in the Silicon Valley, our client offers attractive compensation packages including competitive salary, cash bonus, stock options, and full benefits package including employer matched 401K retirement plan, employees discount stock purchase plan, paid vacation, and medical and dental insurances, etc.

Our client is currently looking for a Lead and Senior Designer on MMIC/RFIC products; the duties are to design and develop a broad range of high performance MMIC/RFIC products for commercial and military applications.

Job Description:

Note: The first 3 bullet items ending with a double asterisk (**) apply only to the Lead Eng. Position.

• Generate product development plans and carry out the tasks in a timely manner**

• Work with foundry and define processing parameters**

• Line up proper packages to satisfy thermal, electrical and cost goals**

• Work with marketing people and potential customers to propose and define product family

• Propose and define circuit architectures to achieve the functional and performance goals

• Simulate and design RFIC/MMIC circuits based on available device models/parameters/design rules

• Layout mask sets based on design and design rules provided by foundry or internal Fab

• Develop assembly plan using outsource assembly

• Develop testing plan including testing equipments and testing spec's for internal testing or outsource testing

• Develop manufacturing costs models

• Develop complete production documents and lead the production transfer
  • Support production related issues as needed

• Interface with customers and provide application supports as needed

Qualifications:

Note: The first bullet item ending with a double asterisk (**) applies only to the Lead Eng. Position.

• Familiar with microwave test equipment and measurement**

• BSEE degree or equivalent; advanced degrees are desirable

• Minimum 6 – 8 years direct and hands-on experiences on MMIC/RFIC design, layout, foundry, packaging, and testing

• Familiar with high frequency device characterization (DC, small signal, and load pull etc.), device modeling, and GaAs based pHEMT and HBT process technologies

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Experience in military / defense jobs desirable Self-motivated and pro-active personalities.

How to Apply:

Email your resume along with a cover letter to tmyers-jobs@formalized.com.

About Formalized Design, Inc.:

Formalized Design, Inc. provides turn key solutions as well as recruiting and placing of high-end engineering staff for short and long-term contracts, as well as permanent placement. FDI's two largest customers are Fortune 50.

Tim Myers
Project Manager
Formalized Design, Inc.
719-422-4011 Direct Line
719-785-7922 Main Office
815-642-9312 Fax
www.formalized.com

About the Opportunity:

We are looking for 4 RFIC Analog Design Engineers for our client who is a major technology innovator and global market leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. We have open positions in California and Colorado. Relocation is provided.

Description:

• Position 1 – RF CMOS Design Engineer for low noise amplifiers or transceivers; Block Design and complete chip level design.

• Position 2 – RFIC Engineer with a background and experience in Power Amplifier IC for Cellular Devices (GaAs or SiGe). This is chip level not board level.

• Position 3 – RFIC Engineer with background and experience in LDOs and Switching and/or Switching Regulators and Power Management IC; Analog Background.

• Position 4 - Analog IC Design PLL, DSP, ADC Mixers and Filters.

Qualifications:

The successful candidate must possess the following:

• MSEE or Ph.D

• 5+ years experience in RFIC design

• Chip Level Experience

• Analog Experience

About Formalized Design, Inc.:

Provides USA & Offshore Development, On-Site Contracting & Perm Engineers.

Our expertise includes:

• RFIC, ASIC, FPGA, Board Design, Validation, Physical Design, Test, CAD and Application Engineers.

• Embedded SW Engineers – Layer 1 / 2, firmware, DSP / CPU SW Development, Drivers, GUI

• IT Enterprise Software - SAP, Oracle / PeopleSoft, Lawson, Siebel, Documentum and similar.

• Linux & MS Developers – .NET, C#, Java, Apache, Websphere, WinCe, PalmOs and similar

• Formalized Design’s two largest customers are Fortune 50 semiconductor companies.

How to Submit Your Resume:

If this seems like a possible fit for you, please send your latest Word resume, including any skills sets listed for this job that may not be in your resume, to tom-jobs@formalized.com We review all resumes and will get back with you if we feel we have a match.

Tom Boyd
Business Development Manager
Formalized Design, Inc.
(719) 785-7922 Office
(678) 392-1596 Direct
(678) 634-9006 Cell
(815) 642-8240 Fax
www.formalized.com

RFIC TV Tuner Design Engineer

About the Opportunity:

Formalized Design is seeking RFIC Design Engineers with TV tuner or video experience for full time positions at our client’s sites in Irvine, CA and Austin, TX. These are for degreed engineers with at least 5 years of related experience. Our client is one of the largest, most stable innovators in the industry.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead design of RFICs for TV tuner applications

Necessary Qualifications (Must have):

• BS degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

• Minimum of 5 years of IC experience

• Knowledge of RF and analog circuit design and layout

• Knowledge of simulation tools such as Cadence, SpectreRF, and Agilent ADS

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• Well organized, methodical, and detail oriented

• Team player / easy to work with

Additional Skills Desired (Prefer to Have):

 MS degree

About our Company:

Provides USA & Offshore Development, On-Site Contracting & Perm Engineers.

Our Expertise Includes:

• ASIC, FPGA, Board Design, Validation, Physical Design, Test, CAD and Application Engineers

• Embedded SW Engineers – Layer 1 / 2, firmware, DSP / CPU SW Development, Drivers, GUI

• IT Enterprise Software - SAP, Oracle / PeopleSoft, Lawson, Siebel, Documentum and similar

• Linux & MS Developers – .NET, C#, Java, Apache, Websphere, WinCe, PalmOs and similar

• Formalized Design’s two largest customers are Fortune 50 semiconductor companies.

How to Submit Your Resume:
If this seems like a possible fit for you, please send your latest Word resume to: greg-jobs@formalized.com.

Please include all your skills that correspond to the requirements of this job. We review all resumes and will contact you if we feel we have a match.

Greg Macy
Business Development Manager
Formalized Design, Inc.
719-785-7922 Main Office
719-302-4571 Direct Line
847-903-6889 Cell
www.formalized.com