Principal Staff Electrical Engineer - Radio Device Engineer

Motorola Solutions•Plantation, FL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Motorola Solutions’ Advanced Development Engineering team in Plantation, Florida, designs and develops mission-critical communications equipment, including RF modems, integrated circuits, and related circuit modules and subsystems. The Radio Device System Engineer develops RF transceiver systems for highly reliable public safety communications equipment using commercial off-the-shelf ICs and custom CMOS technologies. The role is fully onsite Monday through Friday at the Plantation engineering facility. The engineer is part of a team that conceives, designs, and implements radio systems using off-the-shelf semiconductor devices and custom mixed-signal digital, RF, and analog circuits and subsystems. The work spans system architecture and modeling, IP evaluation and integration, power and performance optimization, collaboration through silicon tape-out and product deployment, and documentation of system requirements and operating and test procedures. The role also provides technical direction to other staff and works with external subject-matter experts on specialized subsystems.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
At least 16 years of radio transceiver design experience.
Experience modeling, designing, and verifying analog/mixed-signal circuit blocks and feedback control systems, such as PLL and AGC subsystems, using Cadence or equivalent CAD tools.
Knowledge of multi-loop feedback control systems and their modeling.
Experience assessing third-party IP and COTS ICs for modem development.
Experience with embedded processors.
Experience with digital signal processing for modulation and demodulation in faded radio-channel environments.
Experience implementing high-speed interfaces such as HyperRAM, MIPI, LPDDR, and Ethernet in a radio modem, including mitigating interactions with RF signal processing.
Knowledge of SoC power-management architectures, clocking schemes, and voltage domains.
Experience with Verilog-A, Verilog-AMS, SystemVerilog, and UVM for digital and analog/mixed-signal designs.
Familiarity with shell and scripting languages.
Experience as a technical team leader and providing direction to technical staff in radio transceiver development.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to drive technical alignment across multidisciplinary global teams.
Proven radio transceiver development from concept to shipping product.
Background in RF and mixed-signal IC and RF PCB design.

Responsibilities

Translate product-level radio requirements into architectural specifications for mixed-signal SoCs and communicate with radio product hardware and software architects to meet product requirements.
Develop behavioral system models to determine and manage block-level specifications across hardware, firmware, and software components.
Arbitrate block-level specification adjustments during design to achieve overall system performance goals in finished silicon and radio products.
Evaluate and integrate third-party IP and commercial off-the-shelf ICs, including high-speed analog peripherals and ADCs/DACs.
Develop power-modeling and thermal-management strategies across operating modes and low-power states.
Collaborate with digital design, analog layout, firmware/software, verification, and test engineering teams from specification through tape-out, bring-up, and deployment.
Work with external contractor subject-matter experts to define and implement specialized subsystems in custom IC designs.
Document transceiver and subsystem requirements, theory of operation, functional instructions, troubleshooting guidance, and engineering and manufacturing test procedures.
Provide technical leadership and direction to technical staff developing radio transceivers.