Senior RFIC Design Scientist
for mm-Wave & sub-Terahertz Receivers
RF Systems
Science Park 1, Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz
RF Systems
Science Park 1, Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz

Your future responsibilities
- System & circuit solutions for multi-gigabit wireless chips
- Involvement in receiver architecture selection & receiver system to circuit specifications translation
- Implementing blocks & documenting design towards formal design reviews
- Drive layout & top-level simulations to validate top-level integration
- Take lab measurements to validate analog designs
Your profile
- Deep understanding of fundamental microwave theories & concepts such as
- power waves and scattering parameters
- transmission-lines concepts
- power gain expressions
- gain, noise, and VSWR design trade-offs
- High proficiency in system specification & ability to translate system into circuit requirements at IC level
- Familiar with various RF receiver architectures & their trade-offs
- Understanding of mmWave device modeling
- Insights into packaging effects, supply isolations, high frequency ESD structures & circuit layout for optimum performance
- Experience in simulation & design of lumped & distributed passive structures
- Using EDA CAD tools (Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor, Ansys)
- Performing Analog Custom Layout
- Experience in measuring IC performance & debug of design to correlate simulations to measurements
- Master‘s degree in relevant field with 5+ years of experience in related area of expertise or PhD with 2 years of experience
Important facts
- Beginning of the employment: as soon as possible
- This position is endowed with a gross annual salary of € 51,296 based on the collective agreement for research („Forschungs-Kollektivvertrag“) and depending on your experience and skills.