Engineer, RF Design

Company Overview

Spreadtrum is a leading fabless semiconductor company committed to the independent R&D of core chipsets in mobile communications and IoT. Its products cover mobile chipset platforms supporting 2G / 3G / 4G / 5G communication standards, RF chipsets, wireless connection chipsets, security chipsets, TV chipsets, and image sensor chipsets. With more than 5,000 staff, 14 R&D centers and 7 customer support centers around the world, we have been one of the top three mobile baseband chipset suppliers in the world, the largest pan-chip provider, and the leading 5G chipset design company in Far East.

Scope

We are seeking an experienced RF/Analog IC Design Engineer for our cellular transceiver product development activity. The candidate will work with system, layout, and lab test engineers on the design of RF and analog circuit blocks for advanced 2G/3G/4G/5G transceiver RFICs that are deployed in cellular handsets, CPEs and other types of user equipment. 

Specific Responsibilities

• Choice of circuit topology for circuit blocks.


• Collaboration with system engineering team to analyze trade-offs and define targets for performance and power consumption.


• Collaboration with system engineering, digital design, and functional verification teams to define control functionality.


• Oversight of layout activity, including iterative changes based on simulation with extracted parasitics.


• Reporting of technical status and progress versus schedule in weekly sub-team meetings.


• Design documentation, including presentation material for design review meetings.


• Collaboration with lab test engineers on bring-up, performance optimization and characterization, debug, and root cause analysis.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Experience in design of RFICs for wireless communication in RF CMOS technologies.


• Knowledge of cellular system standards and cellular transceivers is preferred.


• Good teamwork and communication skills.

Education:

• MSEE preferred; BSEE acceptable.

Key Personal and Professional Attributes

Spreadtrum is a company that values continued technology innovation, a fanatical attention to customer needs, collaborative decision making, and, above all, enthusiasm for next gen of communication vehicle.   The incoming candidate should embrace these same values.  The successful candidate must be self-motivated, extremely creative, and should be comfortable learning exciting new technologies.  This is an opportunity for growth and an opportunity to work on complex, interesting, and challenging projects.  

We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. As we grow globally, we strive to have the most talented employees with diverse backgrounds, cultures, perspectives, and experiences to support our innovation and creativity. We are an equal opportunity employer and aim to build balanced teams from all walks of life.

We offer competitive compensation, world-class employee benefits programs, and excellent work-life balance etc. Come and join us - Work for Awesomeness!