Product Development Engineer - Mixed Signal ICs

Job Description
Entry level Engineer to all levels of Sr Engineer(ie. Sr, Staff, Sr Staff, Principal)

QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies (QCT) is the world leader in supplying integrated circuit solutions for cellular wireless standards and is the number one fabless semiconductor company in the world. The key to QCT's success is the ability to deliver to our customers complete optimized wireless platforms incorporating protocol, hardware, software and support, with high quality, on schedule. The RF/Analog organization within QCT develops all RF, mixed-signal, and analog ICs for these complete wireless platforms.

In order to drive our next phase of growth in cellular, wireless peripherals and 4G, we are expanding our RF/Analog Product Development and Test Engineering group.

The RF/Analog Product Development and Test Engineering group is responsible for new product introduction and primary contact for mass production for Zero-IF (ZIF) RF receivers/transmitters/transceivers, baseband mixed signal receivers/CODEC's, and highly programmable power management IC's developed by QCT. Job responsibilities for the position include 1st silicon debug, process experiment (split) definition, device characterization, test correlation analysis, product documentation, test limit (guardband) generation, driving failure analysis to completion, test time reduction and yield variance control. This group has openings for Mixed Signal Product Development Engineers.


Skills/Experience
Understanding of electrical engineering concepts, digital and analog circuit analysis techniques, statistical analysis fundamentals, and wafer fabrication fundamentals.
Working knowledge of ADC, DAC, and general communication measurements (ie INL, DNL, Gain and Offset Error, SFDR, THD+N, ICN, etc)
Ability to work with common lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, logic analyzers (for mixed signal), network analyzers (for RF), etc.
Hands on experience with statistical software packages.
Ability to communicate clearly, organize effectively, and documentation of work.
Familiarity with cellular standards such as CDMA2000, 1X-EVDO, WCDMA, UMTS, GSM/GPRS/EDGE, or wireless peripheral standards such as 802.11x WLAN or other OFDM-based systems, GPS, and Bluetooth is desirable.


Additional Skills

Education Requirements
BS Electrical Engineering. MSEE preferred.

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