Senior Principal AE-RF Design Engineer

Location: Austin, United States

Company

hirify.global develops technology and software for advanced electronic design and semiconductor engineering.

What you will do

• Design high-frequency 30 GHz+ millimeter-wave transceivers and RF components for 5G/6G communications, aerospace radar, and automotive sensors.
• Develop custom RF building blocks including power amplifiers, low-noise amplifiers, mixers, and voltage-controlled oscillators.
• Design Tx/Rx signal chains and RF PLLs, including Sigma-Delta and fractional-N architectures.
• Develop and analyze direct-conversion transceivers and phased-array systems using metrics such as ACPR, EVM, and BER.
• Drive designs through the full lifecycle from conception and tape-out to final laboratory validation.
• Engage closely with customers while addressing parasitic extraction, thermal management, and high-frequency electromagnetic modeling.

Requirements

• 10+ years of industrial experience taking RF designs through tape-out and final lab validation.
• Deep expertise in mmWave IC design, RF subsystems, Tx/Rx signal chains, and RF PLL building blocks.
• Hands-on experience with advanced RF SOI process technologies and their design trade-offs.
• Mastery of EDA tools including VSS, hirify.global Virtuoso, VRF flows, EMX, Clarity, Layout MXL, QRC, and Pegasus.
• Extensive laboratory characterization experience with spectrum analyzers, VNAs, and probe stations.
• M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline is typically expected.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on state-of-the-art designs that support major technology applications.
• Collaborate directly with customers in a fast-paced engineering environment.
• Contribute to solving complex challenges in high-frequency semiconductor design.