RF Validation Engineer

Job Description

Skyworks Irvine, our Corporate Headquarters is home to industry leading R&D and Product Development teams in the beautiful beach and university adjacent city of Irvine, California. Irvine and the surrounding areas of Orange County offer an active and vibrant, multi-cultural lifestyle for new grads or established families alike, with the best public schools and one of the safest neighborhoods in the country. With the legendary Southern California weather and a modern growing city around us, Skyworks Irvine is in one of the most desirable locations. 

When you join the team in Irvine you’ll become a part of our uniquely collaborative, multi-disciplinary and open Engineering Community and work in tandem with all of the other engineering and support teams. From day 1, your success is our priority, and you’ll be paired with an experienced mentor to help support you as you become an integral part of our broad and diverse team. You will also have the opportunity to work on different aspects of the design and product development through our job rotation program. Come join our highly successful and rapidly growing team of RF engineers and develop industry-leading products while advancing your career at the same time!  #LI-SG1

Job Responsibilities

Skyworks is looking for RF Validation Engineer to join a highly successful and energetic Mobile Solution Business team in Irvine, CA!  As a Validation Engineer, you will be a key contributor to bringing our new products to market by ensuring our products meet the defined performance and functionality and that meet our customer’s performance demands. Our Irvine, CA design center has leading R&D and product development capabilities. When you join our team in Irvine, you’ll join a uniquely collaborative, multi-discipline engineering community who support each other to create cutting edge chipsets for cell phones. You’ll be paired with an experienced mentor to help support you as an integral part of the team. Working and living in Irvine provides a wonderful lifestyle in a vibrant coastal city consistently ranked as one of the country’s safest cities!

You will be responsible for bench test, test automation, performance validation, data collection and formatting for complex RF front end modules. You will interface with design engineers and product engineers to validate device performance across various test conditions, debug, create compliance matrices and test reports and present data. Responsibilities also include preparing samples for customers, creating test spec, datasheet, trimming spec, characterization plan and customer data package.  As a Skyworks' MSB employee you have the chance to have a uniquely large impact on the success of the company. Validation Engineers' core focus is to create the linkage between design, characterization and production test.

Job Requirements

• BSEE and 2 years experience or MSEE required
• GPIB based test automation
• Understanding of RF parameters like Gain, NF, intermod, VSWR, S-Parameters, load and source-pull systems.
• Experience and familiarity with cellular systems, bands, tests, 2G/3G/4G related specs
• Experience and familiarity with testing, evaluation and debugging RF, analog and mixed-signal IC designs in a lab environment.
• Proficient in the use of network analyzer, spectrum analyzer, signal generators, oscilloscope
• Experience setting up and running bench and automated test with signal generators, network analyzers, Noise figure meters, spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, temperature chambers, tunable filters & other associated equipment  
• Ability to work with evaluation boards and automated test setups including board-level rework