Senior Principal Rf Design Engineer

**At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Experienced Millimeter-Wave (mmWave) IC designer specialize in engineering high-frequency (30 GHz+) transceivers and components for 5G/6G communications, aerospace radar, and automotive sensors. Will drive the full product lifecycle, tackling challenges like parasitic extraction, thermal management, and high-frequency electromagnetic modeling. High level of customer engagement at a fast pace on state of the art design. Requires a deep, specialized skill set: * **Building Blocks:** Deep expertise in designing custom blocks such as Power Amplifiers (PAs), Low Noise Amplifiers (LNAs), mixers, and Voltage-Controlled Oscillators (VCOs). * **RF Subsystem:** Deep expertise in designing Tx and Rx signal chains for noise, figure, linearity dynamic range and power efficiency. Deep experience in RF PLL design including Sigma delta, FRAC-N PLL. Phase noise and spurius signal, settling time. Experience with PLL buildng blocks such as PFD, charge pumps, dividers, multipliers. * **Architecture:** Proficiency in RF transceiver architectures, direct-conversion topologies, and phased-array systems. Signal chain analysis and system figures of merit such as ACPR, EVM and BER. * **Process Technologies:** Hands-on experience on advanced nodes using RF SOI process and deep knowledge of the required trade offs. * **Software Tools:** Mastery of standard EDA software environments, including: * **System Simulation:** VSS - * **Schematic & Simulation:** Cadence Virtuoso and VRF flows * **Electromagnetic (EM) Simulation:** EMX, and Clarity * **Layout & Verification:** Layout MXL, QRC and Pegasus * **Education:** Usually an M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (or a closely related discipline). * **Experience:** 10+ years of industrial experience taking designs from conception through tape-out to final lab validation. * **Validation:** Extensive **lab characterization experience** utilizing high-frequency equipment like spectrum analyzers, VNAs, and probe stations. **We’re doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can’t.** -------------------------------------------------------------------