Senior Electrical Engineer

MACOM designs and manufactures semiconductor products for Data Center Telecommunication and Industrial and Defense applications. Headquartered in Lowell Massachusetts MACOM has design centers and sales offices throughout North America Europe and Asia. MACOM is certified to the ISO9001 international quality standard and ISO14001 environmental management standard.

MACOM has more than 75 years of application expertise with multiple design centers Si GaAs and InP fabrication manufacturing assembly and test and operational facilities throughout North America Europe and Asia. View our facilities at In addition MACOM offers foundry services that represent a key core competency within our business.

MACOM sells and distributes products globally via a sales channel comprised of a direct field sales force authorized sales representatives and leading industry distributors. Our sales team is trained across all of our products to give our customers insights into our entire portfolio.

In MACOMs MMIC Business Unit we design MMICs and IMAs for aerospace & defense cellular and other wireless applications. We are looking for an Analog & Digital engineer with experience designing & analyzing circuits power supplies support PCBs and test systems for RF & Millimeter Wave multi-chip modules. You will:

• Be responsible for the design analysislayout test and release of printed circuit boards embedded in RF/MMW integrated microwave assemblies.
  
• Design of circuits for DC filtering voltage conversion and power conditioning for MMICs.
  
• Design both analog and embedded digital circuits for control of MMICs.
  
• Hardware interfaces such as SPI I2C TCP/IP UDP RS-232 RS-422 RS-485 CAN Bus UART USB Ethernet.
  
• Creating schematic circuit simulations and EM simulations where appropriate.
  
• Analyze analog and digital circuits using tools such as LTspice MATLAB TINA QUCS Multisim Python ICAP/4 SPICE Scilab Excel PSpice etc.
  
• Generating layouts and assembly drawings.
  
• Be responsible for all design activities related to product development activities from kickoff through engineering evaluations.
  
• Work with our MMIC design electromagnetic design mechanical design assembly and test teams to develop new products as well as production methods.
  
• Initiateprototype builds and manage product characterization. You will design evaluation boards and characterizationfixtures then direct or perform measurements.
  
• Generating design reports progress reports test reports datasheets and bill of materials.
  
• Organizing design reviews.
  
• Cooperating with the Project Manager in order to maintain an up-to-date project plan and schedule.
  
• Work with our Product Engineering group to transfer the product to production.
  
• Keeping up to date with latest technologies (semiconductor assembly packaging tools).
  
• Maintainingpassion for the latest in circuit board technologies and electronics in general.
  
• Customer support (sampling and application notes).
  
• Advocate for PCB-level analog & digital design as a function and core competency within the company.

Qualifications:

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent M.S. preferred.
  
• 10 years experience with releasing Printed Circuit Boards or Circuit Card Assemblies implementing basic power supply control conditioning and telemetry type circuits.
  
• Bona fide electronics and PCB / CCA enthusiast. Enthusiasm for radiation hardened electronics is a huge plus.
  
• Fluency with SPICE simulation tools.
  
• Fluency with several programming and/or hardware description languages. Some examples could include C/C C# Ruby R Bash Rust HTBasic VHDL Verilog FORTRAN Cobol BASIC B.
  
• Comfort working in general purpose operating systems such as Linux Windows Android SteamOS FreeBSD DOS AmigaOS.
  
• Experience designing both the hardware and software or firmware with embedded digital design toolchains for microcontrollers and FPGAs (such as Atmel Xilinx).
  
• Comfort working with RTOS such as ThreadX FreeRTOS VxWorks RTEMS LynxOS QNX Atlas Supervisor.
  
• Familiarity with RF/MMW IMA design techniques.
  
• Familiarity with RF simulation tools such as MWO or ADS (ADS preferred).
  Familiarity with EM simulation tools (such as HFSS or WIPL-D).
  
• Familiarity with PCB layout tools such as Altium PADS or KiCAD.
  
• Familiarity with RF measurement techniques for small-signal and large-signal characterization of amplifiers: bench calibration S-parameters 1-tone and 2-tone power sweep measurements pulsed measurements.
  Experience with electronic test equipment such as oscilloscope multimeter function generator logic analyzer LCR meter thermal camera curve tracer time-domain reflectometers etc.
  
• Excellent communication organization and documentation skills.
  
• Unparalleled time management skills and an unquenching thirst for working for multiple managers with competing priorities and conflicting deadlines.
  
• Strong Excel Word and PowerPoint skills.
  
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build long lasting partnerships.
  
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
  
• Tolerance for using Agile PLM.
  
• Willingness to travel occasionally.
  
• Fluent in spoken and written English.
  
• Due to ITAR regulations only candidates who are U.S. Persons (U.S. citizens U.S. nationals lawful permanent residents or individuals granted asylum or refugee status) will be considered for this position.

The Salary Range for this position is $83000 - $ salary offered to candidates will depend on several factors includingbut not limited to work location relevant candidates experience educationand specific knowledge skills and abilities.

EEO:
MACOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse workforce. MACOM will not discriminate against any worker or job applicant on the basis of race color religion sex gender identity sexual orientation national origin age disability genetic information veteran status military service marital status or any other category protected under applicable law.

Reasonable Accommodation:
MACOM is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you have a disability and are in need of a reasonable accommodation with respect to any part of the application process please call 1- or email Provide your name phone number and the position title and location in which you are interested and nature of accommodation needed and we will get back to you. We also work with current employees who request or need reasonable accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of their jobs.

Required Experience:

Senior IC