Silicon Technology Architect

Qorvo (Nasdaq: QRVO) supplies innovative semiconductor solutions that make a better world possible. We combine product and technology leadership, systems-level expertise and global manufacturing scale to quickly solve our customers' most complex technical challenges. Qorvo serves diverse high-growth segments of large global markets, including consumer electronics, smart home/IoT, automotive, EVs, battery-powered appliances, network infrastructure, healthcare and aerospace/defense. Visit www.qorvo.com to learn how our diverse and innovative team is helping connect, protect and power our planet.

Qorvo is looking for a silicon technology device architect responsible to drive new silicon technologies, 3D packaging, and architectures. This position involves working with product development, external foundries, and marketing to develop innovative custom silicon device solutions that will position Qorvo’s products for inclusion in the design of next generation 5G and 6G wireless mobile handsets. This position reports to Advanced Cellular Group CTO & VP Engineering

 

Responsibilities:

Lead cross-functional digital, mixed-signal and software team in the analysis, architecture and design of solutions to address next generation systems

Understand competitor’s offerings for next generation systems, and analyze benchmarked performance of competitor devices relative to Qorvo’s offering     

Present to Qorvo management new network topologies, architectures and trends aimed at delivering the optimum performance for various key performance indicators and how company technology should be focused to address these increasing bandwidth requirements

Review customer’s roadmaps and technology proposals to identify potential applicable company products & technology

Attend and support key customer technical meetings and presentations on a regular basis to develop relationships with their system level architects and roadmap designers

Assess the impact of changing government regulatory requirements and spectrum allocation relative to product specifications and portfolio offerings.

Use data driven processes to recommend technology and product areas of investment or M&A activity to strengthen and grow Qorvo’s product footprint

 

Specific Job Duties:

Work with Marketing, Engineering and company partners in industry to ensure that products are market leaders that provide clear differentiation from a system level perspective

Support key customer technical meetings, presentations and proposals to determine future product definitions, technology roadmaps and system level architectures

Develop strong technical working relationships with key technical contacts and influencers at targeted customer accounts in assigned applications areas

Develop detailed proposals and support the sales team to secure new reference design wins in next generation systems

Benchmark and analyze data of competitive discrete RF devices and multi-function RFIC components

Influence emerging communication standards such as 5G by actively participating in IEEE and industry working committees that are tasked with the developing standards for future systems

Generate and deliver technical presentations to customers, outside sales personnel, and Qorvo internal sales, engineering, and management groups

Travel to visit customers, company design centers and industry partners in US, Europe and Asia required, up to 10% of your time.

Develop demonstrators of new architecture/technologies

 

Qualifications:

MSEE minimum, PhD in EE preferred

15+ years’ experience in Wireless infrastructure communications systems and RF industry

Previous employment history with OEM and/or chipset companies. For example: HW, NSN, E///, ALU, Qualcomm, Broadcom, ADI, TI, Samsung, Motorola, Commscope

Understanding of existing Wireless 3G/4G standards (WCDMA, LTE, HSPA, etc.) and 5G standards

Proven track record in patent generation

Understanding 5G mmwave

Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams

Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills

Well known in industry through patents, publications, and participation in technical activities sponsored by professional & industry organizations

Proven track record and ability to architect mixed technology systems including digital processing, software, mixed-signal and RF

Familiar with the RF components commonly used (RF amplifiers, mixers, attenuators, filters, VCOs, Synthesizers)

Experience defining system architectures that employ distortion correction and efficiency improvements

Understanding of how component specifications such as noise figure, phase noise, quantization error, ADC SNR, filter group delay, isolation, and amplifier linearity impact system performance

Understanding and experience with system simulation tools such as experience with MATLAB, ADS, AWR, VSS and SystemVue

  Additional Technical expertise desired:

Understanding of compound semiconductor devices

   Background in 3D wafer and die packaging technologies

Experience with silicon-based Baseband transceivers, DACs, ADCs, Clocking, Digital and Analog functions

 

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