Senior RFIC Design Engineer - San Diego, CA, United States
Originally posted 15 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
The Senior RFIC Design Engineer develops high-performance RF and analog integrated circuits for advanced wireless and sensing products. This role involves working with circuit architecture, transistor-level design, layout, verification, silicon characterization, and productization.
What you'll do
- Design and verify RF, analog, and mixed-signal circuit blocks from specification and topology selection through transistor-level implementation, layout, extraction, and signoff.
- Analyze circuit tradeoffs involving performance, power, area, noise, linearity, gain, bandwidth, matching, stability, process variation, and reliability.
- Contribute to the development of RFIC building blocks such such as amplifiers, mixers, oscillators, frequency-generation circuits, data converters, filters, bias circuits, regulators, detectors, and calibration circuits.
- Plan and run schematic, post-layout, PVT, Monte Carlo, EM, mixed-signal, and reliability simulations.
- Partner with layout engineers on floorplanning, critical-device placement, routing, shielding, matching, parasitic control, physical verification, and design-for-manufacturability.
- Support RFIC-package-PCB co-simulation and evaluate the impact of interconnects, passives, coupling, supply integrity, and thermal effects on circuit performance.
What you'll need
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or a related field with specialization in RF, analog, mixed-signal, or microwave/mmWave IC design, or M.S. in Electrical Engineering or a related field with at least 3 years of relevant industry experience.
- Strong foundation in analog and RF circuit design, including device physics, feedback, noise, linearity, mismatch, stability, frequency response, and circuit tradeoffs.
- Academic or industry experience with transistor-level design and simulation of RF, analog, or mixed-signal integrated circuits.
- Working knowledge of CMOS and/or SOI technologies, deep-submicron design considerations, RF passives, and critical analog/RF layout techniques.
- Proficiency with Cadence Virtuoso and Spectre or comparable IC design tools.
- Ability to analyze simulation and measurement data, isolate root causes, and communicate technical conclusions clearly.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with RF and EM simulation, extraction, and physical-verification tools.
- Laboratory experience with RF or analog measurements, including use of oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, signal generators, or related equipment.
- Familiarity with Verilog-A, Verilog, SystemVerilog, MATLAB, Python, or SKILL.
Skills: RFIC, transistor-level design, Cadence Virtuoso, RF simulation, silicon characterization
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 57-day median for RF/Wireless Engineering roles.
RF/Wireless Engineering · RF Frontend
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Open roles in category
259
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Median days open
57 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 | Kyocera International, Inc. | All employers we track in this specialty (259 roles · 32 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 259 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 1 | 1414 · 106 employers |
| Median days open | 0 d | 57 d (−57 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $165k |
Skills observed across this category: RFIC, transistor-level design, Cadence Virtuoso, RF simulation, silicon characterization
Who's hiring in this category
- QORVO · 44 open roles · median 45 d
- Skyworks · 40 open roles · median 50 d
- Keysight Technologies · 26 open roles · median 124 d
- Qualcomm · 22 open roles · median 112 d
- Apple · 19 open roles · median 28 d
- Analog Devices · 12 open roles · median 67 d
How we counted: 259 open RF/Wireless Engineering (RF Frontend) roles from 32 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 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.