Hiring Senior RFIC Validation Engineer - Bangalore, KA

My client (India’s largest fabless RFIC design company) is seeking an experienced Senior RF Validation Engineer to lead post-silicon validation and characterization of high-performance RF and mixed-signal ICs.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead RF post-silicon validation of LNAs, Driver amplifiers, RF switches, PAs, beamformers, and transceivers.

• Own characterization of key RF parameters, including:

  • S-parameters (Gain, Return Loss, Isolation), Smith chart, Noise Figure, IIP3 / OIP3, P1dB, Phase Noise, EVM, ACPR, Harmonics, and Spurious emissions

• Perform CW, pulsed, modulated, and timing validation where applicable.

• Execute validation across voltage, temperature, and process corners.

• Drive silicon bring-up and perform deep root cause analysis of performance deviations.

• Correlate silicon data with simulation results and identify layout, biasing, stability, or measurement-related issues.

• Define and improve RF lab setups, including calibration and de-embedding methodologies (SOLT, TRL, ECal).

• Architect and develop automation frameworks using Python (PyVISA, SCPI) for scalable validation.

• Support production, Test handover, and characterization correlation.

• Generate comprehensive validation reports and data summaries.

• Drive setup improvements for low-noise and guarded measurements.

• Mentor junior engineers and coordinate validation planning.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electronics engineering.

• 4-7 years of experience in RF Bench Validation and Characterization.

• Strong understanding of RF fundamentals: impedance matching, stability Analysis, noise mechanisms, and linearity concepts.

• Extensive hands-on experience with VNAs, spectrum/signal analysers, RF signal generators, power meters, and noise figure setups.

• Experience in debugging bench setup and writing instrument drivers.

• Understanding of lab instruments like power supplies, DMMs, oscilloscopes, network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, PNAx, ZNA, etc.

• Knowledge of ESD and instrument maintenance is essential.

Preferred

• Exposure to automation-driven validation and large-scale characterization matrices.

• Experience in soldering small SMD components.

• Knowledge of communication protocols like SPI, I2C, I3C, SCPI, etc.

• Knowledge of PCB design.

If you’re interested, please drop an email to premchand.ravella@premsnotes.com