Sr. Electrical Engineer - Radio Device RF Architecture Engineer

Motorola Solutions•Plantation, FL

4d•$108,100 - $136,700•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 RF System Engineer develops radio transceiver mixed-signal subsystems using commercial off-the-shelf ICs and RF components, as well as custom CMOS technologies, for high-reliability public safety communications equipment. The systems are intended for integration into Motorola Solutions radio products. The engineer translates product-level radio requirements into microarchitectural specifications, develops behavioral system models, and manages block-level specifications to meet overall system performance goals. The role also evaluates and integrates third-party RF IP, optimizes power and thermal performance across operating modes, and collaborates with multidisciplinary teams from circuit and system specification through silicon tape-out, bring-up, testing, and deployment. This position is 100% onsite, Monday through Friday, in Plantation, Florida. Travel is under 10%, and relocation is not provided. The target base salary range is $108,100–$136,700 USD; actual pay depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
10 or more years of radio transceiver design experience.
Proven digital radio transceiver development experience from concept through shipping product.
Background in RF and mixed-signal IC design and RF PCB design.
Experience modeling, designing, and verifying analog/mixed-signal circuit blocks and feedback-control subsystems such as PLLs and AGC, using Cadence or equivalent CAD tools.
Knowledge of multi-loop feedback control systems and their modeling.
Experience assessing third-party IP and commercial off-the-shelf ICs for modem development.
Experience with Verilog-A, Verilog-AMS, SystemVerilog, or UVM for mixed-signal designs.
Familiarity with shell and scripting languages.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to drive technical alignment across multidisciplinary global teams.

Nice To Haves

Some experience with digital signal processing for modulation and demodulation in a faded radio-channel environment.

Responsibilities

Translate product-level radio requirements into microarchitectural specifications for mixed-signal circuits, especially RF systems involving PLLs, fractional multi-loop synthesizers, baseband and RF amplifiers and filters, AGC subsystems, and digital state machines for RF control.
Work with radio product development hardware and software architects to achieve product-level requirements.
Develop behavioral system models to determine and manage block-level specifications for radio modem lineups, with a focus on the RF system.
Arbitrate block-level specification adjustments during design to achieve system performance goals in finished silicon and the completed radio product.
Collaborate with internal and external IP providers to integrate RF IP blocks into a system-on-chip.
Develop power-modeling and thermal-management strategies across operating modes and low-power states of RF, digital, and analog mixed-signal systems.
Collaborate with digital design, analog layout, firmware/software, verification, radio product, and test engineering teams from specification through tape-out, bring-up, testing, and product deployment.