Engineer, Design Validation & Characterization

Job Summary

This individual will execute design validation and characterization activities and contribute to product development of RF and mixed signal ICs in pSemi’s UltraCMOS technology for mobile wireless and consumer WIFI RF front end semiconductor products for cellular handsets and commercial/industrial applications.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design Validation: Performing lab measurements on various RF and mixed signal front end IC's (LNA, SW, PA, PAC’s, Couplers, Digital tunable capacitors and IC filters) and create validation report with comparisons vs design expectations.
• Product Characterization: Characterize products across PVT per test plans; configure and maintain benches and fixtures, instrument setups, and calibration routines; maintain and extend existing automation scripts to improve efficiency and repeatability.
• Product Qualification: Compile and analyze results from products being stressed for lifetime reliability. Support bench evaluation of qualification units and escalate anomalies with clear reproduction steps and data.
• Product Documentation: Document device performance and limitations with traceable data including conditions, scripts, and configurations for future reference by applications and customer support. Propose preliminary performance limits based on design verification and characterization data for cross-functional review and approval.
• Production ATE Development: Partner with Test Engineering to correlate bench measurements and the automated test solution, including golden units, correlation data sets, and issue reproduction support.
• Product Evaluation: Support design verification by executing defined experiments, reproducing issues, and providing timely status updates.
• Analysis Tool Development: Maintain and enhance characterization and test data analysis tools to streamline characterization (CPK analysis) and improve ATE capability understanding (GR&R).
• Characterization Infrastructure: Configure, maintain, and incrementally improve RF validation benches, fixtures, and automation. Design adapters and fixtures as needed and collaborate with senior engineers on new bench architecture. Recommend incremental optimizations to improve throughput and repeatability.

Minimum Qualifications (Experience And Skills)

• Strong understanding of RF measurement fundamentals – NF, IP3, IP2/3, IMD, EVM, S-parameters, matching using smith charts, de-embedding, calibration, time domain measurements etc.
• Proven strength in documentation clarity and completeness.
• Team player with a strong sense of urgency to plan activities and meet NPI requirements on schedule.
• Hands-on use of lab equipment to validate performance such as Spectrum Analyzers, Vector Network analyzers, signal generators, oscilloscopes, DMM, SMU etc.
• Experience with at least one of the following software tools: MatLab, JMP, Python, DataPower, Agilent ADS, National Instruments CVI, LabVIEW.
• Able to multi-task and work competently in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Minimum Education Requirements

• Bachelor of Engineering or equivalent with minimum 2 years of relevant experience.
• Master of Science in Electrical Engineering or a related field with 0-2 years’ experience.

Travel Ability

To perform this job successfully, the employee will need to travel both domestically and internationally (25% of the time).

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. This position requires the ability to occasionally lift office products and supplies, up to 20 pounds.

Pay

USD 113,991.50 - 148,197.16 per year