Senior RF Hardware Architect for Next-Gen Wireless

QUALCOMM, Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 233,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Staff/Sr Staff/Principal RF Hardware Engineer to define RF system and hardware architecture for advanced wireless platforms, including 5G Advanced and 6G.

You will lead cross-functional teams across RF, antenna, and software domains from concept to prototype, ensuring robust performance and scalable solutions. The role demands deep expertise in RF hardware, RF system design, and cross-domain integration, with responsibilities spanning architecture

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Applied Physics, or a related field and 8+ years of relevant industry experience
• Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, or a related discipline and 5+ years of industry or post-doctoral experience

Responsibilities

• Define and lead RF system architecture for advanced wireless platforms and next-generation products.
• Drive partitioning and tradeoff analysis across RF hardware, RFIC, antenna, modem, algorithms, and software domains.
• Establish RF performance requirements and translate system objectives into optimized hardware architectures.
• Lead architecture evaluations for emerging technologies and influence product roadmaps.
• Drive design reviews, technical risk assessments, and architecture decisions.
• Provide technical direction during product definition, development, integration, verification, optimization, and commercialization.
• Influence engineering best practices, methodologies, and design processes.
• Lead design, integration, optimization, and validation of complex RF subsystems including: Power amplifiers, Low-noise amplifiers, RF front-end modules, Filters and duplexers, Phased arrays, Mixers and synthesizers.
• Drive cross-functional optimization involving: Performance, Cost, Power, Thermal management, Reliability.
• Develop and validate advanced RF system models and simulation environments.
• Analyze nonlinear system behavior and cascaded impairments.
• Drive system tradeoff studies involving: EVM, ACLR, Spectral efficiency.
• Lead waveform-to-hardware co-optimization efforts.
• Lead RF bring-up, debugging, characterization, and system validation activities.
• Develop advanced methodologies for performance verification and root-cause analysis.
• Drive correlation between simulation, prototype, and production hardware.
• Identify and develop new RF technologies and system concepts.
• Contribute to patent generation and intellectual property strategy.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and competitive solutions.
• Support new research initiatives and proof-of-concept demonstrations.
• Contribute to wireless standards development and technical proposals.
• Support industry collaborations, customer engagements, technical publications, and conference presentations.
• Influence future wireless system requirements and architectures.

Skills

RF system design

Architecture leadership

Cross-domain integration

Wireless communications

Antenna systems

Technical coordination

Education

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

PhD in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Staff/Sr Staff/Principal RF Hardware Engineer to define RF system and hardware architecture for advanced wireless platforms, including 5G Advanced and 6G.

You will lead cross-functional teams across RF, antenna, and software domains from concept to prototype, ensuring robust performance and scalable solutions. The role demands deep expertise in RF hardware, RF system design, and cross-domain integration, with responsibilities spanning architecture