RF System Development Engineer, Entry Level

San Jose, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 113300 - 155800

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Business Line Description
NXP is a leader in NFC contactless technology and building eco-system partners in the global adaption of NFC mobile payment mobile transport ticketing and access control. The NFC System team within the business line Secure Mobile Transaction is taking care of the required architectures and RF technology to support the eco-system. The systemteam is taking care from early customer requirements discussions to production ramp-up and is working together with the global NFC IC and software development teams.

As part of the RF System team you will be working with a team to integrate and optimize NXPs NFC solutions to enable world leading customers to deliver outstanding NFC user-experience to the market. The teams goal is to design debug and integration NFC into leading large volume platform. You will have and develop expertise in RF (NFC) Wireless technology and be the first to work on leading edge RF design for next generation wireless customer production platforms.

Job Summary:

System Design-in and validation of RF (NFC) sub-systems
RF related NFC system design and validation activities for RF and system performance per RF Specifications (i.e. NFC Forum specifications and ISO/IEC standards (14443-A B ) Felica MIFARE and EMVCo. Mobile payment)
execution reporting debugging and tracking of validation tasks in a global product development team
optimization of the RF performance of our contactless products with respect to existing standards interoperability and product requirements
improving of contactless compliance test systems in terms of execution speed and functionality
providing technical inputs in reports for test specification design document application notes key customer support and design-in activities

Key Challenges:

Author Script and execute complex RF test bench to confirm system level performance and requirement
Debug root cause and solve complex system level problems in Ecosystem
optimization of the RF performance of our RF (NFC) contactless products with respect to existing standards and product requirements
providing detailreports with both bench measurement and system level simulation analysis
assist in key customers development; leading to front line customer interactions
PCB design and RF system level simulation experience is a strong plus

Cross functional aspects:

Candidate will work in group environment with regular interaction with Internal RF team Digital Signal processing R&D design architecture and FW team
Teams are spread in global environment with regular touch point cross team and cross site

Job Qualifications:

Bachelors or Masters degree in the field of electrical engineering computer engineering or similar (will consider May 2024-December 2025 graduates)
Up to 2 years work experience including internships
have basic understanding of RF communication systems (transmitter / receiver architecture know how is a plus)
knowledge of electrical schematic design
basic operation of lab equipment: oscilloscope network analyzer spectrum analyzer
desired software skills: MatLab ADS scripting language i.e. Python
have good communication and documentation skills

Job location:
San Jose CA

The base salary range for this position is as mentioned below per year. We also provide competitive benefits incentive compensation and/or equity for certain roles.
Company benefits include health. dental and vision insurance. 401(k) and paid leave. Please note that the base salary range (OR hourly rate) is a guideline and individual total compensation may vary based on a number of factors such as qualifications skill level work location and other business and organizational needs. This base pay range is specific to California and is not applicable to other locations. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range as of the date of this posting is:

$113300 to $155800 annually

More information about NXP in the United States...

NXP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer regardless of age color national origin race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression marital status status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local addition NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.

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Required Experience:

Junior IC

Business Line DescriptionNXP is a leader in NFC contactless technology and building eco-system partners in the global adaption of NFC mobile payment mobile transport ticketing and access control. The NFC System team within the business line Secure Mobile Transaction is taking care of the required ar...