Senior Layout Engineer) - Limerick, Ireland
Originally posted 14 September 2026 by the employer — open 4 days.
About the role
This role is responsible for the physical implementation, layout development, and verification of high-performance RF and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The engineer works closely with RFIC designers, process engineers, and product engineers to translate circuit schematics into manufacturable silicon while achieving performance, reliability, area, and yield objectives.
What you'll do
- Develop and implement physical layouts for RF, analog, mixed-signal, and passive circuit blocks.
- Perform floor planning and device placement to optimize RF performance, matching, isolation, and manufacturability.
- Design high-frequency routing structures including transmission lines, transformers, inductors, baluns, and matching networks.
- Create custom layouts for LNAs, mixers, PAs, VCOs, PLLs, and switches.
- Perform physical verification including DRC, LVS, ERC, Antenna, and density checks.
- Support post-layout extraction and parasitic analysis.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Electronics Engineering, Physics, or related field.
- 3-5 years of experience in RFIC, analog, or mixed-signal physical design.
- Experience with advanced CMOS, SiGe BiCMOS, SOI, or RF CMOS technologies.
- Experience with isolation structures and current density considerations.
- Familiarity with parasitic effects impacting RF performance.
- Experience with Cadence Virtuoso Layout Suite, Keysight ADS, or Cadence EMX.
Nice to have
- Experience designing RF passives at frequencies from sub-GHz through mmWave.
- Experience supporting foundry tapeouts.
- Familiarity with automotive, industrial, consumer, or wireless communication products.
- Experience with scripting languages such as SKILL, Python, Perl, or TCL.
Skills: RFIC, physical layout, DRC, LVS, Cadence Virtuoso, EMX
This role has been open 4 days — well below the 39-day median for RF/Wireless Engineering roles.
RF/Wireless Engineering · RF Frontend
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Open roles in category
258
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Median days open
39 d
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Median salary
$165k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Analog Devices | All employers we track in this specialty (258 roles · 34 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 12 | 258 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 82 | 1339 · 105 employers |
| Median days open | 41 d | 39 d (+2 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $165k |
Skills observed across this category: RFIC, physical layout, DRC, LVS, Cadence Virtuoso, EMX
Who's hiring in this category
- QORVO · 48 open roles · median 30 d
- Skyworks · 36 open roles · median 28 d
- Qualcomm · 26 open roles · median 57 d
- Keysight Technologies · 23 open roles · median 171 d
- Apple · 20 open roles · median 16 d
- Analog Devices (this employer) · 12 open roles · median 41 d
How we counted: 258 open RF/Wireless Engineering (RF Frontend) roles from 34 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 Sept 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.