Staff RF Hardware Engineer - Device Technology

Originally posted 21 September 2026 by the employer.

About the role

As a Staff RF Hardware Engineer, you will drive Si process technology evaluation, development, design enablement, and productization for Mixed-Signal/RF products at foundry partners.

What you'll do

• Drive bulk Si and RFSOI technology evaluation, development, and design enablement for RFFE designs, including RF switching and antenna circuits.
• Define and execute test structures DOE, layout, and characterization for process evaluation to meet design requirements.
• Design, simulate, and test RF circuits to understand process-design-layout interaction for optimization.
• Interact with internal design, PDK, reliability, and product engineering teams to ensure technology support.
• Support Qualcomm design, layout, PTE, and reliability teams to resolve device and design optimization issues.
• Assure product quality by devising testing methodology and testing product and system capabilities.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or a related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience; OR Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or a related field and 3+ years of experience; OR PhD in Science, Engineering, or a related field and 2+ years of experience.
• Excellent understanding of RF-CMOS, SOI, or BiCMOS, process integration, reliability, design rules, and best layout practices.
• Excellent understanding of PDK related details including DRC, LVS, LPE.
• Proficiency in device-level test-structure development, DOE design, statistical analysis, and data-driven problem solving.
• Excellent understanding of sub-micron process/device optimization and its impact on digital/analog/RF/HV circuit design and product-level performance.
• Good knowledge of RF (e.g. S-parameters, Harmonics, Noise Figure) and DC characterization of devices on wafers and in product ICs.
• Good knowledge of technology evaluation/benchmarking, SPC monitoring, and reliability qualification.
• Good understanding of BSIM, PSP-SOI device models and ability to run hardware correlations.

Nice to have

• Minimum of 8 years of industrial experience developing advanced CMOS processes and devices.
• Experience designing wafer-level designs (analog IPs, LNA, PAs) and circuit design flows.
• Ability to tweak and update models.
• Fab device engineering or process integration experience, preferably in RF devices.
• Foundry and OSAT interface experience.

Skills: RFSOI, process integration, device optimization, PDK, RF characterization, BSIM