Senior RF Design Engineer - Applied Optoelectronics, Inc.

Summary

Applied Optoelectronics Inc. (AOI) is a leading developer and manufacturer of advanced optical and Radio Frequency (RF) products, including components, modules, and equipment. AOI's products are the building blocks for broadband access networks worldwide, where they are used in the internet data center, CATV broadband, telecom, and FTTH markets. AOI supplies both customized and OEM/ODM components and equipment in all four of these markets. In addition to its corporate headquarters, wafer fab, and advanced engineering and production facilities in Sugar Land, TX, AOI has an R&D lab in Atlanta, Georgia, and engineering and manufacturing facilities in Taipei, Taiwan, and Ningbo, China.

The AOI Atlanta Engineering Team is a highly experienced group of engineers in Telecommunications, specifically outdoor CATV products. We design both indoor and outdoor telecommunication products that require innovative mechanical enclosures and mechanical accessories. As the R&D RF Hardware Engineer on our team, you will be working with some of the industry's most innovative engineers, to architect and design RF systems in the Cable Access Space.

Job Duties

• Design, document, architect, and implement hardware solutions for the Cable Access space.
• Simulate RF designs in modeling software, including Monte Carlo analysis.
• Write test specifications and test instructions for hardware development and manufacturing.
• Write engineering design specification documents for Remote-PHY Devices, RF Nodes, Amplifiers and systems, architectures, and products.
• Design Digital to Analog and Analog to Digital systems, including evaluation of new technologies.
• Build and test hardware for EVT and DVT development stages.
• Mentor junior engineering members in RF design, simulation, and hardware evaluation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and 15+ years of RF Design experience required
• Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and 10+ years of RF Design experience preferred
• 5+ years direct experience in developing Broadband RF Amplifiers for the Cable Access Networks space
• Broadband RF Amplifier Circuit design, board level design, and optimization
• Selection and design of RF broadband amplifiers building blocks, matching networks, equalizers, attenuators, and other associated components
• System Simulation for Gain, Distortion, and Noise Figure performance
• Extensive experience and comfort level with doing bench level design and optimization
• Expert in the use of Network and Spectrum Analyzers
• Experience with RF simulation in Genesys RF/Microwave Synthesis and Simulation Software
• Experience with RF PCB Design on multilayer PCB’s using Altium CAD software or similar SW
• High-Speed ADC and DAC design experience is desired
• Knowledge of CableLabs DOCSIS 3.1 Specifications is a plus
• Familiar with CableLabs CCAP architectures is a plus
• Familiar with standard serial interface protocols, including I2C, SPI, USB, RS232 is desired
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to work in a tightly integrated functional team of electrical, mechanical, FPGA and software engineers

Why AOI?

In addition to a competitive salary, AOI offers

• Flexible and competitive health (medical, dental, vision) plans offer the employee with the right options to meet individual and family needs
• Employer matching on 401(k) deferrals
• Generous PTO policy, with unused PTO payout at end of the year
• Relocation package available within US
• Immigration sponsorships (Must be currently authorized to work in the US)

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