Staff RF DSP Engineer

Job Summary:

The Staff Radio Frequency (RF) Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Engineer is responsible for developing Soft IP products for RF signal processing applications. This role requires deep expertise both in RF systems and in developing DSP designs, with a focus on creating efficient, high-performance, and scalable Soft IP for integration into custom FPGA/ASIC solutions.

As a staff engineer, the role can also include involvement in IP product research and development, process development, process improvement, resource planning, team development, project leading, and client communication.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish and improve systems and processes related to RF/DSP development
• Collaborate with system architects to ensure seamless integration of the designed IPs to an existing RF system
• Perform RF modeling and simulation to conduct simulations and performance analysis of designed systems and to inform design architecture and to assess integrated system performance relative to specifications
• Design and implement Soft IP for RF systems, including but not limited to direct digital converters, sample rate converters, modulators, filters, and signal conditioners.
• Create thorough and detailed design documents, including design specifications, detailed features, microarchitecture, timing diagrams, integration guidelines, and test plans
• Optimize the designed IPs in terms of number of devices (area), power consumption, throughput, latency, and signal integrity.
• Integrate and test developed Soft IPs into FPGA or ASIC platforms
• Project management
• Coach junior engineers
• Work with Design Verification engineers throughout the verification process to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the designed IPs.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver on-time and high-quality designs
• Keep up to date with the latest advances in RF, DSP, and FPGA/ASIC technologies to incorporate cutting-edge techniques into designs.
• Review output of junior members of the team to ensure quality of design work
• Provide support to customers

Key Qualifications:

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Electronics and Communications Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• With at least 10 years of relevant industry experience in RF and DSP systems design

RF DSP Design & Methodology:

• Strong background in Mathematics and Physics, especially electromagnetic concepts.
• Strong foundation in RF Front End (e.g. LNA, Filters, PA, LO) and RF Back End (e.g. DSP, baseband processors).
• Expert in RF systems design concepts such as frequency translation, modulation, and filtering
• Expert in signal processing techniques used in RF communication such as quadrature mixers, I/Q demodulation, and digital filtering.
• Extensive experience in developing methods based on digital signal processing and statistical processing to extract features from RF data, identify RF signals, and mitigate interference and errors
• Experience with integration of Soft IPs into FPGA or to ASIC.
• Knowledge of signal integrity, noise performance, and system-level trade-offs in RF systems.
• Industry experience with RF communications protocols (e.g. LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi) is a plus.

EDA Tools:

• Expert in using tools such as MATLAB, Cadence, and Synopsys EDA.
• Experience in using FPGA development environments such as Xilinx Vivado and Intel Quartus, including associated tools for hardware simulation and debugging.

Language & Methodology:

• Proficiency with hardware description languages such as VHDL, Verilog, and System Verilog.

Nice to have:

• Ability to standardize and improve development processes
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and spoken English
• Aggressive in learning, strong problem solving, decision-making and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to work in a team operating across multiple sites
• Ability to plan and organize project activities
• Ability to lead a team of design engineers
• Ability to coach junior engineers