RFIC Layout Engineer - San Diego, United States
Apple
San Diego, United States
1 hour ago
RF, Wireless & Photonics
Originally posted 27 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As an RFIC Layout Engineer on the Wireless SoC Radio Team, you will deliver custom RF, analog, and mixed-signal layouts for CMOS radios across advanced CMOS technology nodes.
What you'll do
- Layout custom RF, analog, and mixed-signal blocks including RF front-end amplifiers, data converters, baseband filters, and phase-locked loops.
- Design layouts for crystal oscillators and bandgap references across advanced CMOS nodes.
- Apply layout techniques for device matching, minimizing parasitics, RF shielding, and high-frequency routing.
- Execute physical verification and interpret results for CALIBRE DRC, ERC, and LVS in FinFET technology.
- Mitigate physical layout effects involving RC delay, electromigration, coupling, guard rings, DNW, PN junctions, LOD, and WPE.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree.
- Hands-on FinFET layout experience.
Nice to have
- Experience in custom RF/analog layout for radio transceivers with knowledge of deep sub-micron CMOS.
- High level proficiency in interpretation of CALIBRE DRC, ERC, and LVS in FinFET technology.
- Knowledge of Cadence layout tools.
- Scripting skills in Perl or SKILL.
Skills: RF layout, FinFET, Calibre DRC, LVS, Cadence, transceiver