Senior Application Design Engineer

Qorvo, Inc.; Barcelona; Híbrido; EUR 70.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Qorvo in Barcelona, Spain, is seeking a hands-on Senior Analog IC Designer to join our EDA Applications Engineering team. You will design and characterize high-performance analog and mixed-signal circuits, own them end-to-end, and contribute to tool flows and PDK enablement.

The role requires a strong transistor-level background, Cadence Virtuoso/Spectre experience, and the ability to mentor peers while collaborating with CAD, design, and product teams. Hybrid work arrangement offered.

Formación

• Bachelors in Electrical Engineering.
• 5+ years in transistor-level analog IC design.
• Experience with amplifiers, references, oscillators, ADCs/DACs.
• Strong knowledge of Cadence Virtuoso and Spectre.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsabilidades

• Design, simulate, and characterize high-performance analog and mixed-signal blocks.
• Own circuits end-to-end from design through tape-out and silicon debugging.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers.

Conocimientos

Transistor-level analog IC design

Analog circuit fundamentals

Communication & teamwork

Troubleshooting

Educación

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering

Herramientas

Cadence Virtuoso

Spectre

PDK tooling

Descripción del empleo

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Experience Level: Professional

Job Type: Regular

Location:

Barcelona, ES, 8034

Requisition ID: 10785

Qorvo (Nasdaq: QRVO) supplies innovative semiconductor solutions that make a better world possible. We combine product and technology leadership, systems-level expertise and global manufacturing scale to quickly solve our customers' most complex technical challenges. Qorvo serves multiple high-growth segments of large global markets, including consumer electronics, smart home/IoT, automotive, EVs, battery-powered appliances, network infrastructure, healthcare and aerospace/defense. Visit www.qorvo.com to learn how our innovative team is helping connect, protect and power our planet.

Qorvo's Application Engineering group is looking for a hands‑on Senior Analog IC Designer to join our EDA Applications Engineering team. This is a hybrid role: you'll bring real transistor-level design experience into the team that builds, qualifies, and supports the design methodologies used across our RF, analog, mixed‑signal, and digital IC groups. You will be designing and characterizing circuits yourself, and use that first‑hand insight to make our EDA tools, flows, and PDKs genuinely better for the designers who depend on them.

Key Responsibilities

Hands‑On Analog/RF IC Design

• Design, simulate, and characterize high‑performance analog and mixed‑signal building blocks, including precision amplifiers and comparators, voltage references and bias circuits, oscillators and clock generation, ADCs/DACs, power management blocks, and mixed‑signal control/calibration circuits.
• Own circuits end‑to‑end from circuit design and simulation through layout oversight, tape‑out support, and silicon characterization and debug.
• Provide technical design leadership, mentor engineers, and contribute to invention disclosures and technical publications.

EDA Applications Engineering & Methodology

• Provide day‑to‑day applications support to RFIC, analog, mixed‑signal, and digital design teams on industry‑standard EDA tools (Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre, and related platforms).
• Develop, qualify, and deploy silicon design methodologies and flows spanning custom analog/RF design, AMS verification, digital implementation/verification, modeling, simulation, and silicon correlation.
• Translate hands‑on design and debug experience into reference flows, PDK enablement, reusable automation, and design best practices that improve first‑pass silicon success.
• Evaluate, benchmark, and qualify new EDA tools and capabilities; partner directly with EDA vendors to resolve technical issues and influence product roadmaps.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with technology, design, CAD, and product engineering teams to raise design productivity and quality.
• Deliver training, documentation, and mentoring that raise designer proficiency across RF, analog, mixed‑signal, and digital methodologies.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering
• 5+ years of experience in transistor‑level analog IC design
• Demonstrated design experience with one or more of: amplifiers, comparators, voltage references/bias circuits, oscillators, ADCs/DACs, or mixed‑signal subsystems.
• Expert knowledge of Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre, and standard analog verification/characterization tools.
• Strong fundamentals in analog circuit design, device physics, noise analysis, stability and compensation, and matching/PVT variation analysis.
• Hands‑on silicon characterization and debug experience.
• Experience (or strong interest in) providing applications support, defining design methodology, or otherwise acting as a technical bridge between designers and EDA tools/flows.
• Excellent communication, teamwork, and problem‑solving skills, with comfort operating as the interface between design teams, internal CAD organizations, and EDA vendors.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with RF transceiver and front‑end design and their system‑level trade‑offs/specifications.
• End‑to‑end analog/RFIC development experience from definition through productization.
• Experience with AMS verification and digital design/verification flows, and familiarity with tools such as Xcelium, Synopsys HSPICE/PrimeSim, VCS, Keysight ADS, or AWR.
• Experience defining enterprise EDA design flows, tool qualification processes, or collaborating with EDA vendors on roadmap development.
• Knowledge of EM, package, thermal, or multi‑physics simulation.
• Familiarity with data analysis/programming tools such as MATLAB, JMP, Spotfire, Python, or ADS AEL.

This position is only open to candidates having a qualified legal status to work in Spain.

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