Staff Microwave SSPA Design Engineer (8687)

Staff Rf Power Amplifier Design Engineer

The Qorvo Defense and Aerospace (DandA) group, the leader in high-performance solid-state RF power amplifiers (SSPA), is seeking a Staff RF Power Amplifier Design Engineer to join the team. The successful candidate will design and develop high-power RF amplifier circuits and modules using MMICs of various types of advanced state-of-the-art compound semiconductor technologies. You will be a key member of an integrated product development team that includes marketing, program management, mechanical engineering, product engineering, package engineering, test engineering, applications engineering, manufacturing, operations, quality and reliability, and senior management.

Responsibilities:

- Technical lead role designing high power SSPAs ranging in frequency from 2-100 GHz.

- The candidate will be responsible for all aspects of the SSPA electrical design. Primary design-facing tasks include (but are not limited to):

• Schematic capture and circuit layout using various substrate technologies
• RF circuit analysis using 2.5D (ADS or MWO) and 3D (HFSS) simulators.
• Generate then present design review documentation in a group forum of peers and internal and/or external customers.
• Execute and/or supervise product level checkout, debug, optimization, and design verification testing (DVT) in the engineering lab.
• Test Plan Definition
• Component selection, characterization, and BOM management
• Collaborate closely with the assigned Mechanical Design Engineer to ensure the design is viable from a thermal and mechanical perspective.
• The candidate will communicate and collaborate with members of a cross-functional new product development (NPD) team. This includes peers in Design, Assembly, Test, Program Management, Quality, and CAD.
• Support all stages of the product lifecycle including design, assembly, test, qualification, production support, and customer support.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

BS degree in Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics, or equivalent with a minimum of 8years of industry experience. Alternatively, a combination of three years of industry experience plus relevant RF/Microwave focused post-doctoral experience is acceptable. Practical experience designing and releasing high power RF amplifiers to the commercial or aerospace and defense market is required. This includes knowledge of:

• Transmission line structures (microstrip, waveguide, coaxial)
• Power combining techniques (planar, spatial, waveguide)
• Impedance matching techniques
• RF PA biasing modes
• Electrothermal behavior of compound semiconductor devices
• Analog bias control circuits
• Multi-layer RF PCB design
• MIL-SPEC Design / Test Requirements
• Expert user of EDA tools for linear, nonlinear, and electromagnetic (EM) simulations: Linear and non-linear analysis using MWO (Cadence) and/or ADS (Keysight) 2.5D EM simulation (Axiem or Momentum) 3D EM simulation (HFSS)