Staff Engineer, RF Power Amplifier Design
August 28
🏢 In-office - Los Angeles
Description
• Develop ultra-high efficiency RF power amplifiers (PAs) for base station solutions • Design, simulate and debug/evaluate RF PAs and present to peers and stakeholders throughout • Work with Systems, RF/Analog, Digital and FW engineers to contribute to the complete base station solution • Support the RF PA design through to volume production • Document and teach your designs to peers, integrators and users/customers
Requirements
• BSEE minimum, MSEE or PhD preferred • 3-10 years of direct design experience • Focused experience with the following activities in high-efficiency RF PA development: • Device selection • Circuit design • Linear and nonlinear simulation • PCB layout and parasitic extraction (EM analysis) • Lab debug, bring-up and performance optimization • Knowledge of efficiency enhancement PA architectures such as • (Multi-level) Doherty • Outphasing • Active load modulation • Envelope Restoration • Design experience in the 0.5 MHz – 6 GHz range and solid understanding of higher frequency effects • Solid understanding of device biasing, RF dependencies and (temperature) compensation techniques • Excellent RF test and measurement skills • Well-versed in SMT component selection and understanding of impairments • Understanding of nonlinear effects and compensation methods • Expert RF design tool as a user • Solid understanding of transmitter linearization techniques • Analytical and disciplined problem solver • Excellent communication and presentation skills
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