Principal Applications Engineer

Qorvo•Greensboro, NC

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

Qorvo supplies innovative semiconductor solutions that make a better world possible. We combine product and technology leadership, systems-level expertise and global manufacturing scale to quickly solve our customers' most complex technical challenges. Qorvo serves multiple high-growth segments of large global markets, including consumer electronics, smart home/IoT, automotive, EVs, battery-powered appliances, network infrastructure, healthcare and aerospace/defense. The Principal Applications Engineer will be the technical liaison between US development teams (Application Engineers, RF Design Engineers) and our organization’s application engineers abroad who are working in direct contact with end customers and technical partners. This role will coordinate activities at both locations to maximize efficiency and shorten time-to-market of our organization’s Radio Frequency (RF) solutions, involving various RF technologies, components, systems, products, and solutions. Additionally, the engineer will act as a technical leader driving the voice of the customer, ensuring customer critical features and specifications are accounted for in solutions developed by US design teams. This includes highlighting customer change requests and new feature requests early enough to US technical teams to maintain product relevance during development. The role also involves publishing internal documentation detailing new customers’ standards and new architecture choices, and driving changes in measurement methods to align with the latest evolutions of RF communication standards. Furthermore, responsibilities include mentoring and training junior Application Engineers and Field Application Engineers on new products and features, and standardizing and documenting characterization techniques for system-level measurement. This is a hybrid position, with four days in the office and one day optional work from home.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Electronic Engineering
10 years of experience in the semiconductor, radio communication, or related fields
5 years of experience in RF equipment including signal generators, network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, to perform testing and debugging of product evaluation boards and customer reference design boards
5 years of experience in RF circuit design, filter design, impedance matching, and PCB board schematic and layout tools
5 years of experience in WiFi IEEE802.11 wireless communication standards and Digital Pre-distortion
5 years of experience in platform attachment, validating performance including RF, Throughput, Power consumption
Experience creating design support packages and training to support field applications engineers
Experience supporting Tier-1 customers: Design review, RF tuning, internal/external chipset features training, issues debug and root-cause analysis, performance (RF/Throughput/power consumption) improvement, regulatory certification, and mass production yield improvement
Experience performing QDART, QSPR, QRCT, QMINE
Experience with WiFi board data file (BDF) tuning on TPC/DPD parameters during RF tuning

Responsibilities

Act as the technical liaison between US development teams (Application Engineers, RF Design Engineers) and application engineers abroad who are in direct contact with end customers and technical partners.
Coordinate activities at both locations to maximize efficiency and shorten time-to-market of Radio Frequency (RF) solutions.
Work with a number of RF technologies, components, systems, products, and solutions.
Act as a technical leader driving the voice of the customer, ensuring customer critical features and specifications are accounted for in solutions developed by US design teams.
Highlight customer change requests and new feature requests early enough to US technical teams to maintain the relevance of products in development.
Publish internal documentation detailing new customers’ standards and new architecture choices.
Drive changes in measurement methods to keep them aligned to the latest evolutions of RF communication standards.
Mentor and train junior Application Engineers and Field Application Engineers on new products and new features.
Standardize and document characterization techniques for measurement at the system level.
Create design support packages and training to support field applications engineers, including datasheets, device revision guides, schematics, layout guides, hardware training guides, and design validation testing performance reports.
Provide Tier-1 customer support, including design reviews, RF tuning, internal/external chipset features training, issues debug and root-cause analysis, performance improvement (RF/Throughput/power consumption), regulatory certification, and mass production yield improvement.
Perform QDART, QSPR, QRCT, QMINE.
Tune WiFi board data files (BDF) on TPC/DPD parameters during RF tuning.