Job Summary
The Senior Radio Frequency (RF) Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Engineer is responsible for developing Soft IP products for RF signal processing applications. This role requires a deep expertise both in RF systems and in developing DSP designs, with a focus on creating efficient, high-performance, and scalable Soft IP for integration into custom FPGA/ASIC solutions.
As a senior engineer, the role can also include involvement in IP product research and development, resource planning, team development, project leading, and client communication.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with system architects to ensure seamless integration of the designed IPs to an existing RF system
- Perform RF modeling and simulation to conduct simulations and performance analysis of designed systems and to inform design architecture and to assess integrated system performance relative to specifications
- Design and implement Soft IP for RF systems, including but not limited to direct digital converters, sample rate converters, modulators, filters, and signal conditioners.
- Create thorough and detailed design documents, including design specifications, detailed features, microarchitecture, timing diagrams, integration guidelines, and test plans
- Optimize the designed IPs in terms of number of devices (area), power consumption, throughput, latency, and signal integrity.
- Integrate and test developed Soft IPs into FPGA or ASIC platforms
- Work with Design Verification engineers throughout the verification process to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the designed IPs.
- Keep up to date with the latest advances in RF, DSP, and FPGA/ASIC technologies to incorporate cutting-edge techniques into designs.
Key Qualifications:
- Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Electronics and Communications Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- With 3 years of relevant industry experience in RF and DSP systems design
RF DSP Design & Methodology:
- Strong background in Mathematics and Physics, especially electromagnetic concepts.
- Strong foundation in RF Front End (e.g. LNA, Filters, PA, LO) and RF Back End (e.g. DSP, baseband processors).
- Proficiency in RF systems design concepts such as frequency translation, modulation, and filtering
- Proficiency in signal processing techniques used in RF communication such as quadrature mixers, I/Q demodulation, and digital filtering.
- Experience in developing methods based on digital signal processing and statistical processing to extract features from RF data, identify RF signals, and mitigate interference and errors
- Experience with integration of Soft IPs into FPGA or to ASIC.
- Knowledge of signal integrity, noise performance, and system-level trade-offs in RF systems.
- Familiarity with RF communications protocols (e.g. LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi) is a plus.
EDA Tools:
- Expert in using tools such as MATLAB, Cadence, and Synopsys EDA.
- Experience in using FPGA development environments such as Xilinx Vivado and Intel Quartus, including associated tools for hardware simulation and debugging.
Language & Methodology:
- Proficiency with hardware description languages such as VHDL, Verilog, and System Verilog.
