Sr. RFIC Design Engineer, Amazon Leo - San Diego, California, United States
Originally posted 8 October 2026 by the employer.
Amazon Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites.
About the role
As a Sr. RFIC Design Engineer, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative product solutions. You will be responsible for the architectural definition, design, simulation, layout, and extracted simulation for transmit and receive front-ends from data converters to LNAs and PAs, with a strong focus on creating power and cost optimized solutions for system performance.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with communications systems, digital design, and chip implementation teams to specify and implement transceivers and RFIC front-end models.
- Lead implementation of area/power-efficient RFIC chips with multiple transceiver chains with integrated PLLs from concept to production.
- Explore architectures for mm-wave and RF circuits like VCOs, mixers, phase shifters, LNAs, PAs, LO distribution, frequency multipliers and dividers, and envelope/power detectors, and make detailed presentations on power/area/performance trade-offs.
- Design and simulate on-chip inductors, baluns, and power combiners in tools such as EMX or HFSS.
- Perform circuit layout, RLC extraction, and run extracted simulation across various corners.
- Specify bench and production test plans for your designs.
What you'll need
- Experience with architectural definition, design, simulation, layout, and extracted simulation for transmit and receive front-ends.
- Experience with power and cost optimized solutions for system performance.
- Experience with transceivers and RFIC front-end models.
- Experience implementing RFIC chips with multiple transceiver chains with integrated PLLs.
- Experience with mm-wave and RF circuits like VCOs, mixers, phase shifters, LNAs, PAs, LO distribution, frequency multipliers and dividers, and envelope/power detectors.
- Experience designing and simulating on-chip inductors, baluns, and power combiners in tools such as EMX or HFSS.
Skills: RFIC Design Engineer, transceiver chains, mm-wave, VCOs, mixers
This role has been open 0 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
266
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$164k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Amazon | All employers we track in this specialty (266 roles · 33 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 5 | 266 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 7 | 1419 · 106 employers |
| Median days open | 13 d | 51 d (−38 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $164k |
Skills observed across this category: RFIC Design Engineer, transceiver chains, mm-wave, VCOs, mixers
Who's hiring in this category
- QORVO · 45 open roles · median 39 d
- Skyworks · 40 open roles · median 44 d
- Keysight Technologies · 27 open roles · median 141 d
- Qualcomm · 25 open roles · median 92 d
- Apple · 21 open roles · median 22 d
- Analog Devices · 12 open roles · median 61 d
How we counted: 266 open RF/Wireless Engineering (RF Frontend) roles from 33 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 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.