Senior MMIC Design Engineer

Senior RFIC / MMIC Electronic Design Engineer

MACOM designs and manufactures semiconductor products for Data Center, Telecommunication and Industrial and Defense applications. Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, MACOM has design centers and sales offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. MACOM is certified to the ISO
9001 international quality standard and ISO
14001 environmental management standard.

MACOM has more than 75 years of application expertise with multiple design centers, Si, GaAs and InP fabrication, manufacturing, assembly and test, and operational facilities throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.  to view our facilities. In addition, MACOM offers foundry services that represents a key core competency within our business.

MACOM sells and distributes products globally via a sales channel comprised of a direct field sales force, authorized sales representatives and leading industry distributors. Our sales team is trained across all of our products to give our customers insights into our entire portfolio.

In MACOM’s Diode Business Line, we design control function circuits for aerospace and defense, test and measurement, cellular/5G, medical, space/hi-rel, automotive and other wireless applications. We are looking for an experienced microwave and millimeter-wave electronic design engineer. You will:

• Responsible for the design, layout, test, and release of new control circuits for microwave and millimeter-wave applications based on Si and GaAs technologies.
• Design products such as switches, limiters, digital and analog phase shifters, digital and analog attenuators, detectors, frequency multipliers, mixers, modulators/demodulators, CMOS drivers & sequencers and multi-function RFICs, MMICs and Hybrids.
• Responsible for all design activities and related product development activities from kickoff through engineering evaluation to product release.
• Work with our test engineering team and write test and assembly plans and procedures.
• Work with our package and assembly teams to come up with new and more cost-effective packaging and assembly methods.
• Initiate prototype builds and manage product characterization. You will design evaluation boards and characterization fixtures, direct or perform measurements, and process and present evaluation data against the product development goals.
• Work with our Product Engineering group to transfer the product to production.
• Follow a formal stage-gate new product introduction process.

• Degree (BS, MS, or PhD) in Electrical Engineering.
• More than 5 years of experience in microwave design of RFIC, MMIC and/or Hybrid products.
• Fluent with modern microwave simulation tools such as ADS or AWR.
• Familiar with integration and experience designing for high yield and low cost.
• Experience with EM simulations (Momentum, EmPro, HFSS, etc). Thermal simulation experience is a plus (Ansys Icepak or equivalent).
• Understanding and practical knowledge of working with the Smith Chart for impedance matching and tuning.
• Operation and calibration of s-parameter and nonlinear measurements using industry standard test equipment (spectrum analyzer, network analyzer, power meter, thermal imaging, etc.).
• Understanding of a variety of microwave measurements which include but are not limited to S-Parameters, IP3/TOI, compression/limiting, harmonics, DC and/or RF continuous and pulse power, noise figure, switching speed, conversion loss/gain, etc.
• Experience with the design of microwave evaluation boards including both electrical and thermal aspects.
• Device or process modeling experience is a plus (ADS, AWR, TCAD, Silvaco, etc).
• Familiarity with AutoCAD or other drawing packages is a plus.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build long lasting partnerships.
• Due to ITAR regulations, only candidates who are U.S. Persons (U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents, or individuals granted asylum or refugee status) will be considered for this position.

The Salary Range for this position is $83000 - $136000. Actual salary offered to candidates will depend on several factors, including but not limited to, work location, relevant candidates’…