Sr Applications Engineer

Qorvo - Greensboro, NC

Full-time - Mid Level

Greensboro, NC

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

As a Senior Applications Engineer at Qorvo, you will play a crucial role in bridging the gap between marketing, design engineering, and our customers. Your primary responsibility will be to provide technical support for Wi-Fi products, both in development and those already released into the market. This position requires a deep understanding of RF technology and the ability to work closely with tier 1 customers during their design phases, ensuring that our products meet their performance expectations. You will also be involved in post-mass production support, helping customers troubleshoot and optimize their designs. In this role, you will collaborate with internal design engineers during the New Product Introduction (NPI) phase, providing valuable system-level feedback that can influence product development. Your expertise will be essential in enabling our products to achieve the desired performance metrics on customer reference designs. You will perform detailed tuning on RF amplifiers, front-end modules (FEMs), low-noise amplifiers (LNAs), filters, and switches for various applications, ensuring that our solutions are optimized for real-world use. Additionally, you will be responsible for testing and debugging product evaluation boards and customer reference design boards. Your ability to create and update product documentation, including data sheets that encompass RF parameters, schematics, tunings, and application information, will be vital in bringing Qorvo products to market effectively. You will also participate in the development of new standards and custom RFIC products, contributing to the innovation and advancement of our technology offerings.

Responsibilities

• Support tier 1 customers during their design phases including after mass-production supports
• Work with internal design engineers during NPI development by providing system level feedbacks
• Enable company's products to achieve the desired performances on the customer reference designs
• Perform detailed tunings on RF amplifiers, front-end modules (FEMs), LNAs, filters, and switches for various applications
• Perform testing and debugging of product evaluation boards and customer reference design boards
• Provide documentations and marketing tools necessary to bring QORVO products into the market
• Create and update product data sheets to include RF parameters, schematics, tunings, and application information
• Participate with new standards and custom RFIC product development efforts

Requirements

• BSEE or BS in Electronics Engineering (or foreign equivalent) required, MSEE preferred
• 3+ years of related working experience in Wi-Fi or related wireless technology
• Experiences with RF circuit design, filter design, impedance matching, PCB board schematic and layout tools
• Knowledge in RF systems design and requirement of FEM in Wi-Fi system integration
• Good hands-on experiences on general RF equipment including signal generators, network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes and etc
• Knowledge in communication theory including basic signal processing and modulation theory
• Knowledge of ADS or equivalent RF simulation tools