Lead Systems Engineer

Company Overview:

MACOM designs and manufactures semiconductor products for Data Center, Telecommunication and Industrial and Defense applications. Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, MACOM has design centers and sales offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. MACOM is certified to the ISO9001 international quality standard and ISO14001 environmental management standard.

MACOM has more than 65 years of application expertise with multiple design centers, Si, GaAs and InP fabrication, manufacturing, assembly and test, and operational facilities throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Click here to view our facilities. In addition, MACOM offers foundry services that represents a key core competency within our business.

MACOM sells and distributes products globally via a sales channel comprised of a direct field sales force, authorized sales representatives and leading industry distributors. Our sales team is trained across all of our products to give our customers insights into our entire portfolio.

We consider applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status or veteran status or any other legally protected status.

Job Title: Lead Systems Engineer

Job Purpose, Duties and Responsibilities:

MACOM is hiring a senior lead system engineer to help shape, develop and evolve our family of RF products in the growing RF Module business. MACOM is developing RF modules for commercial, aerospace, and defense markets, from Watts to kWatts, VHF to mm-Wave systems. The candidate will work closely with RF groups in NJ, NC, MA, CA.

Responsibilities include the following:

Develop system engineering requirements documentation based on customer requirements, including individual requirements, compliance matrices.

• Develop system level architectures for MACOM's RF Pallets and Modules.

• Designing end to end systems using multiple MACOM components and subsystems.

• Perform cascade analysis of TX and RX subsystems.

• Drive the execution of various blocks and subsystems to effectively achieve high level design goals.

• Perform system level analysis, evaluate key trade-offs, develop models & simulations to validate the architecture, and develop formal architecture specifications for the next generation products.

• Coordinate between system, design and test engineering during lab validation and production test development.

• Debug issues and identify performance bottlenecks in systems internally and with customer's engineering teams.

Previous Relevant Work Experience/Qualifications:

• MS in Electrical Engineering with specialty in RF with 20+ years of experience.

• Over 10 years of experience with RF systems engineering, telecommunication, RADAR, EW, FDD and TDD systems.

• Experience with requirements documentation/control system (DOORS, MBSE, SRD/ARD).

• Experience architecting systems to meet stringent power, cost, and performance targets.

• Experience analyzing and defining architectures and deriving system and block level specifications.

• Experience with system modelling using SystemVue, Matlab, ADS, AWR.

• Experience debugging system issues in both internal lab and customer lab environments.

• Experience with design modelling techniques and procedures.

• Strong analytical skills and a working knowledge of modern system design and testing methods.

• Detail oriented with strong fundamentals in core engineering principles, including RF systems, baseband signal processing, waveform analysis, communication system air interface designs, logic, power supplies, mechanical, thermal disciplines.

Location:

Hamilton, NJ

Morrisville, NC

EEO:

MACOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse workforce. MACOM will not discriminate against any worker or job applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military obligations, or membership in any other category protected under applicable law.

Reasonable Accommodation:

MACOM is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you have a disability and are in need of reasonable accommodation with respect to any part of the application process, please call +1-978-656-2500 or email HR_Ops@MACOM.com. Provide your name, phone number and the position title and location in which you are interested, and nature of accommodation needed, and we will get back to you. We also work with current employees who request or need reasonable accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of their jobs.