RF Design Engineering Intern - Hillsboro, OR, United States
$31 - $42 USD yearly
Originally posted 28 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves contributing to the design of functional blocks including Power amplifier, LNA, switch or acoustic filters, and RF Modules within the Advanced Cellular business group.
What you'll do
- Contribute to design of functional blocks including Power amplifier, LNA, switch or acoustic filters, and RF Modules.
- Meet performance requirements considering size, cost, footprint, and schedule.
- Produce designs with increasing complexity for customer demands like LTE, carrier aggregation, multiple antennas, filters, and power management.
- Adapt to new customer requirements for ruggedness, ESD, and quality.
- Work as a team member to contribute design schematics, simulations, and real lab data.
- Work with signal generators, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, and power meters to compare simulated data to real lab data.
What you'll need
- BS, MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering.
- Completed analog/RF circuit design coursework.
- Minimum GPA of 3.0.
Nice to have
- Exposure to RF measurement equipment such as spectrum analyzers and network analyzers.
- Software Exposure: ADS, AWR, FEM, HFSS, Momentum, Cadence, Dynamic Link, Python.
Skills: Power amplifier, LNA, RF Modules, RF measurement equipment, ADS, AWR
This role has been open 35 days — well below the 51-day median for RF/Wireless Engineering roles.
RF/Wireless Engineering · RF Frontend
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Open roles in category
265
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$162k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | QORVO | All employers we track in this specialty (265 roles · 34 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 46 | 265 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 74 | 1387 · 106 employers |
| Median days open | 35 d | 51 d (−16 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $162k |
Skills observed across this category: Power amplifier, LNA, RF Modules, RF measurement equipment, ADS, AWR
Who's hiring in this category
- QORVO (this employer) · 46 open roles · median 35 d
- Skyworks · 41 open roles · median 40 d
- Keysight Technologies · 24 open roles · median 174 d
- Qualcomm · 24 open roles · median 102 d
- Apple · 20 open roles · median 19 d
- Analog Devices · 12 open roles · median 57 d
How we counted: 265 open RF/Wireless Engineering (RF Frontend) roles from 34 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 5 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family row. Figures refresh nightly.