Senior RF Design Engineer required for hybrid role with growing technology company in Dublin city centre, for definition and architecture of leading edge board level RF front-end systems for small cell applications. You will be responsible for the overall definition of small cell RF front-end requirements and implementation. The role spans the full development life-cycle through specification, design, documentation, implementation, debug and test. 

Responsibilities:

• Active collaboration with a multidisciplinary team on the architecture of small cell radio front-end products and subsystems.

• Leading the design of new 4G/5G front-end systems development.

• Analysing and producing the technical requirements and specifications and recommending design modifications for existing products improvements.

• Active involvement in wide range of activities including RF circuits and systems simulation and design, schematics capture, PCB layout supervision, product bring-up and debugging and Device Verification Test.

• Preliminary compliance testing: EMC, FCC, RFI; system integration (SW, BB, HW) and supporting thermal management and mechanical design of radio base station

• Provide mechanical, test and conformance departments with technical support.

• Debugging of RF performance in TX and RX chains.

• PCB Stack-up definition for RF and Mixed-Signal PCB designs.

Requirements:

• Degree in Electronic or Computer Engineering or other relevant discipline.
• Demonstrated experience within wireless technology and industry is required.
• Experience in RF design at both system and board level circuit design and development of wireless systems.
• RF technical expertise in board-level system and circuit analysis and design including TX and RX chain line-ups and complete RF front-end design.
• Ability to supervise schematic capture and layout design process for complex Mixed-RF PCBs.
• Experience in Analog, Digital and Power Supply design.
• Knowledge of 3G, 4G and 5G radio standards.
• Ability to debug complex RF failures.
• Know-how of complex board-level RF system design and product development cycle.
• Ability to work effectively with a multidisciplinary engineering team is a must.
• Fluent English skills (technical, spoken and written).
• Hands-on experience in EDA software for electronic circuits and systems simulations (ADS, LTSpice, Matlab).
• Previous experience in mixed signal (high-speed and RF) PCB design software (Altium Designer) will be a plus
• Experience with leading-edge RF Transceiver SoCs is ideal.
• Knowledge of LDMOS and GaN Power Amplifiers design and development for modern radio telecommunication systems with DPD and CFR is ideal..