Electrical Engineering Winter/Spring Co-Op

Join our team developing high performance RFIC solutions for next-generation mobile applications! Document and present your work to a broad audience of co-workers. This is an excellent opportunity to expand your peer network to launch a career in this important field. Skyworks Irvine Design Center is seeking a motivated Winter/Spring Co-Op eager to join a winning team in the competitive mobile communications market.

Irvine Design Center comprises tight-knit, diverse, and multi-cultural teams. Every team is guided by the core principles of sharing, openness, collaboration, accountability, and trust. Personally contribute to the realization of RF Front-End integrated circuits used in mobile phones from initial concept to final production. See your valuable inputs directly translate into new ways of solving common problems, improved design methodology, or enhancing business culture or the work environment. Join us to experience all aspects of highly integrated semiconductor, module, and embedded RF circuits design, our in-house prototype Assembly Lab capable of building fully packaged samples, and our world-class RF characterization laboratory.

• Evaluating RF parameters like IP3, P1dB, NF, return loss, etc
• Impedance matching using Smith chart
• Block-level design and simulation to understand the circuits that are being measured and correlating measurements with simulation
• Creating compliance matrices against spec, plotting results and presenting results summary
• Tuning RF front end modules in the lab
• Validating performance across supply, temperature and frequency

• Understanding of basic IC building blocks like LNA, mixer, switch, bias, bandgap, LDO, op-amp, etc.
• Ability to work January - June 2024
• Exposure to a lab testing setup and environment including commonly used test equipment like network analyzer, spectrum analyzer, frequency generator, noise figure meter will be useful to perform the required job
• Use of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel is required to perform job duties successfully
• Position requires good communication and presentation skills
• Must be currently enrolled in an Electrical Engineering preferably MS or Ph.D. program
• Familiarity and experience with circuit design tools like Cadence and be familiar with CMOS/bipolar/SOI devices and models
• Understanding of design parameters like gain, noise, non-linearity, s-parameters, stability, etc is required
• Knowledge of semiconductors, analog circuits, RF design fundamentals, wireless systems and introductory electromagnetics