CONTRACT ANALOG/RF DESIGN ENGINEER

Location Farnborough
Contact name: Micheal O’Maoldomhnaigh

Contact email: micheal@softwareplacements.ie
Job ref: 1347
Published: 21 days ago

Client:

Our client a leading Multinational Semiconductor Telecom Company requires a Contract Senior Analog/RF IC Design Engineer for 6- 12 month daily rate role based in Farnbourgh, Hampshire. England. 

Recent RF IC design experience in CMOS, AMS simulator experience, Cadence simulator experience are mandatory for this role.

100% Remote working is available for the right candidate!

Role:

You will  take on verification of full Rx and Tx chains of an on-going design.  They will help setup and debug simulation testbenches, report compliance to spec and validate device register controls for test. 

Responsibilities:

 

  • LTE Tx and Rx chains from RF LNA inputs to analogue IF outputs in TSMC 22 ULL
  • You will Simulate functional and performance of the chains between analogue IF and RF ports
  • This is Pre-silicon simulation
  • For the simulation and verification Cadence ADE XL/Maestro and Spectre HB simulators tools are used
  • Recent RF IC design experience in CMOS, AMS simulator and Cadence simulator are mandatory
  • You don't need to be able to build from scratch, but should be able to debug test bench issues
  • If the candidate is a pure simulation verification engineer this would be acceptable as long as they can debug test bench issues and has a good knowledge of the simulator and understands RF performance metrics
  • AMS sims with Verilog/VerilogA are used for register/control validation



Key Tasks:

 

  • Review of block specifications.
  • Simulation and reporting compliance to specifications.
  • Root cause any specification failures.
  • Liaising with the chip lead to integrate the designs.
  • Presentation of design for block-level reviews.


Contact:

For further information please contact Mícheál at Software Placements on 00353 1 5254642 or email micheal@softwareplacements.ie