Radio Frequency (RF) Test Engineer Job at Apex Systems in Redmond

Basic qualifications:

• Master's degree in Electrical / Communications Engineering or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in wireless RF SOC bring up and RF systems fundamentals.
• Solid experience of RF parametric testing such as IP3, NF, ACPR, phase noise, etc.
• Experience with Python or C/C++ for test script development.
• Strong working knowledge of RF test equipment, such as network analyzer, spectrum analyzer, vector signal analyzer, vector signal generator, etc.
• Generating test plan for various performance parameters, RF design/verification/test reports by working with RF and systems and integration teams.
• Good analytical, problem solving and communication skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s / PhD degree in Electrical / Communications Engineering or related field
• Proficiency with basic metrics for determining quality of digital communication signals measured.
• Experience in test automation development using OOP’s in Python is preferred.
• Knowledge of load pull testing is desirable.
• Skills in data post-processing using Excel, JMP or similar application.

About the candidate Skills:

• Post silicon DVT and system integration activities for RF Mixed Signal and SerDes products
• LDPC Modem / Transceiver Integration
• Characterization and optimization of Analog Front End and Digital Back End of Modem system
• Simulation of Interleaver circuit using Matlab
• Develop Signal Processing techniques for defect detection and noise characterization
• Firmware Validation