Senior Scientist - RFIC Design / mm-Wave and sub-Terahertz Receivers (f/m/d)

YOUR FUTURE RESPONSIBILITIES

• System & circuit solutions for multi-gigabit wireless chips.
• Involvement in receiver architecture selection & receiver system to circuit specifications translation.
• Implementing blocks & documenting design towards formal design reviews.
• Drive layout & top-level simulations to validate top-level integration.
• Supervision of Junior Scientists.
• Project Responsibilities.

YOUR PROFILE

• Master‘s degree in relevant field with 5+ years of experience in related area of expertise or PhD with 3 years of experience.
• Deep understanding of fundamental microwave theories & concepts such as:
  • power waves and scattering parameters
  • transmission-lines concepts
  • power gain expressions
  • gain, noise, and VSWR design trade-offs
• High proficiency in system specification & ability to translate system into circuit requirements at IC level.
• Familiar with various RF receiver architectures & their trade-offs.
• Understanding of mmWave device modeling.
• Insights into packaging effects, supply isolations, high frequency ESD structures & circuit layout for optimum performance.
• Experience in simulation & design of lumped & distributed passive structures.
• Proficient with EDA CAD tools. (Cadence, Mentor, Ansys, etc.)
• Performing Analog Custom Layout.
• Experience in measuring IC performance & debug of design to correlate simulations to measurements.

IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT SAL

• Start of your employment: 1st of August (negotiable)
• This position is endowed with a gross annual salary of € 53.382.- based on the collective agreement for research („Forschungs-Kollektivvertrag“) excluding bonus and depending on your experience and skills.
• Home Office possible.
• € 4.- /day food allowance in restaurants / € 2.- /day in supermarkets.
• Family- & Kids friendly.
• Free Coffee/Milk/Tee.

BECOME PART OF SILICON AUSTRIA LABS

Silicon Austria Labs is performing cutting-edge research in the course of the 6G Lighthouse on the physical layer of RF systems for future 5G/-6G (UE, front and backhaul), and millimeter-wave and sub- Terahertz imaging/-sensing/-radar applications. In this domain, the Research Unit for Millimeter Wave Technologies collaborates closely with university and leading industry partners on e.g. RF/ millimeter-wave transceiver architectures robust in terms of interference and coexistence, reconfigurable RF systems for transceivers and RF/-millimeter-wave front-end modules (architectural reuse and/ or resource sharing), and large-scale phased-array antennas and beamforming structures, which are targeting millimeter-wave and sub-Terahertz communications (5G, 6G), radars and imagers. In support of the design activities the mmWave RF Unit is equipped with the best in-class test infrastructure covering the GHz and THz frequency range.

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