RFIC Design Engineering Manager

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Silicon Labs

Manage an IC design team in the IoT RF IC design group;
Provide hands-on technical leadership and training for design staff;
Lead the design team through the product development cycle including feasibility studies, specifications, competitive analysis, technical choices, design, integration, validation, verification, and production test;
Contribute to define design approaches and flow for design team;
Attend reviews to help guarantee high quality designs and effective reviews;
Oversee evaluation of design results by laboratory measurements to assure technical and performance objectives are met;
Collaborate with worldwide Design, Marketing, Validation and PTE teams throughout the design life cycle;
Recruit, select, develop, and motivate the best engineers to ensure the efficient operation of the function;
Function as an advisor to the team to meet schedules and resolve technical problems.

Direct experience designing and bringing into mass production analog circuits;
Advanced understanding of system specification and ability to work withsystem/application engineers to translate system requirements into circuit requirements at the IC level;
Advanced understanding of design tradeoffs for performance, power and area optimization;
Prior experience designing RF blocks such as: LNAs, mixers, PAs, RF frequency synthesizers (PLLs), baseband amplifiers, and data converters;
Knowledge of signals, systems, and transforms;
Knowledge of calibration circuits for compensating process/voltage/temperature variations;
Solid experience in silicon characterization and debug;
Proficiency in Cadence Design Environment for Analog, Mixed-Signal and RF designs (Cadence Analog Design Environment, Cadence Virtuoso, SpectreRF, EMX, AFS etc.);
Prior Experience in silicon bring-up, lab measurements and characterization using digital, analog and RF test-equipment;
MS, MSc in Electrical Engineering and 5 or more years of design experience;
An advanced degree may reduce the minimum experience required;
3 or more years of experience leading teams or project development in the area of RF or analog IC design;
Excellent written and verbal communication skills (Fluent English);
Scripting in Python, Skill, Ocean, Perl, Unix Shell, etc. is a plus;
Experience with Matlab or other high-level modeling language/tool for designing and evaluating communication systems and algorithms is a plus.