Senior RF Engineer
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This role pays more than 65% of similar roles. Most pay $150,000–$212,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $192k versus about $181k for comparable roles.
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Qualcomm is a leading American semiconductor and telecommunications company based in San Diego, CA.
Qualcomm currently has 623 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $148,300–$222,500 across 603 roles with salary data.
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The RF Electromagnetic (EM) Engineer joins the Packaging Engineering team to design and develop passive components for next-generation integrated circuits using deep sub-micron CMOS and SOI technologies. This role involves collaborating with circuit design teams to optimize component sizes and performance, delivering compact models, and ensuring DRC clean physical designs. The engineer will perform isolation analysis to reduce on-chip and chip-package-PCB coupling while optimizing multichip carriers for RF systems regarding loss and isolation. Key technical requirements include experience with EM simulation tools such as EMX, Helic, Peakview, HFSS, or Clarity, alongside proficiency in Cadence tools and Keysight ADS. The role focuses on the design of inductors, transformers, MOM capacitors, and passive filters, utilizing RLCK model extraction to predict circuit-level electric and magnetic coupling within complex RF systems.
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