What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal RF HW Engineer position at Cohu, Inc.?
This position is for a Principal RF Hardware design engineer reporting into the RF and Millimeter Wave product development group. The successful candidate will join a team of RF engineers in development of RF and Millimeter ATE instrumentation. The products range from 6 GHz up to 70 GHz in frequency.
- Precision measurement receivers, signal sourcing, and DSP functions.
- Strong grasp of detailed PCB development, RF circuit analysis, and familiarity with calibration of precision instrumentation.
- System level trouble shooting skills, plus excellent communication and organizational skills are mandatory.
- Experience within the Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) industry is a definite plus.
- Work closely with marketing and applications to provide input to marketing strategies and future product developments.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in electrical engineering (BSEE) with at least 10 years design experience, Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) preferred.
- Familiarity with RF generator and receiver architectures.
- Strong detailed RF circuit analysis and design knowledge.
- Thorough knowledge of the various RF Parts available in the industry.
- PCB design and layout for circuitry operating up to at least 8 GHz.
- Strong simulation experience with tools such as Genesys, HFSS, and MATLAB.
- Working knowledge of RF power meters, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, and vector signal generators/analyzers.
- Ability to team with software, hardware, applications, and operations engineering staff, to bring-up new hardware designs and to diagnose chip and board problems.
- Ability to understand and design RF Systems.
- Excellent System level trouble shooting skills are mandatory.
- Basic Digital Signal Processing knowledge.
- Basic programming skills with standard programming languages like Python and C/C
- Precision measurement receivers, signal sourcing, and DSP functions.
- Strong grasp of detailed PCB development, RF circuit analysis, and familiarity with calibration of precision instrumentation.
- System level trouble shooting skills, plus excellent communication and organizational skills are mandatory.
- Experience within the Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) industry is a definite plus.
- Work closely with marketing and applications to provide input to marketing strategies and future product developments.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in electrical engineering (BSEE) with at least 10 years design experience, Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) preferred.
- Familiarity with RF generator and receiver architectures.
- Strong detailed RF circuit analysis and design knowledge.
- Thorough knowledge of the various RF Parts available in the industry.
- PCB design and layout for circuitry operating up to at least 8 GHz.
- Strong simulation experience with tools such as Genesys, HFSS, and MATLAB.
- Working knowledge of RF power meters, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, and vector signal generators/analyzers.
- Ability to team with software, hardware, applications, and operations engineering staff, to bring-up new hardware designs and to diagnose chip and board problems.
- Ability to understand and design RF Systems.
- Excellent System level trouble shooting skills are mandatory.
- Basic Digital Signal Processing knowledge.
- Basic programming skills with standard programming languages like Python and C/C