Product Engineer
Location: Cambridge, UK
Team: New Product Introduction
Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time
About Us:
Forefront RF is a fabless semiconductor company developing breakthrough RF technology that radically simplifies RF front-end architectures for mobile and connected devices. Our long-term vision is to empower anyone to treat global connectivity as a commodity, effortlessly adding it to any device. We lead through innovation, solving our customers’ toughest challenges, enabling them to stay ahead by pushing the boundaries of RF design.
Our Values:
Our values are the quiet nudge that help us to be our best in every interaction.
- One team: We listen, share, and build solutions together. Collaboration is at the heart of how we work. We support one another, embrace challenges and fun, and celebrate collective success.
- Innovation with intent: We operate at the forefront of technology, building innovative pathways to the future that meets real customer needs.
- Solutions driven: We develop world leading manufacturable products that deliver effortless connectivity.
- Customer focused: We act with integrity, hold ourselves accountable, and are guided by a deep commitment to deliver customer focused solutions.
- Sustainable: We design for longevity and reuse - leveraging globally connected RF technology to extend product lifecycles and reduce waste.
Role Overview:
We are seeking a Product Engineer to join our growing development team in Cambridge, UK. You will sit at the intersection of product definition, engineering execution, and customer readiness, ensuring our RF modules and IC-based solutions transition smoothly from concept and development into robust, manufacturable, testable, and customer-ready products.
You will work with all teams across the organisation and will own the product integrity across its lifecycle: translating requirements into clear engineering deliverables, safeguarding performance and quality, and acting as a technical bridge between design, test, software, manufacturing, and commercial teams.
Key Responsibilities:
Product Definition & Requirements:
- Translate market, customer, and system-level requirements into clear product requirements and engineering specifications.
- Maintain ownership of product-level specifications, performance targets, use cases, and assumptions.
- Ensure alignment between product requirements and system architecture decisions.
- Support definition of Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and phased feature roadmaps
Engineering Execution & Integration:
- Act as the technical focal point for a product across disciplines (RF, IC, software, algorithms, test, and packaging).
- Ensure consistency and traceability between requirements, design choices, simulations, measurements, and validation results.
- Support design reviews, trade-off discussions, and risk assessments at product level.
- Identify integration risks early and drive mitigation plans.
Validation, Test & Customer Readiness:
- Define and own product-level validation strategies, including lab testing, over-the-air testing, and corner-case verification.
- Work with test engineering to ensure test coverage aligns with product specifications and customer expectations.
- Support generation of datasheets, application notes, reference designs, and performance reports.
- Ensure products are demonstrably ready for customer evaluation and sampling.
Manufacturing & NPI Support:
- Collaborate with NPI, assembly, and manufacturing partners to ensure product robustness, yield, and scalability.
- Support design-for-manufacturability (DfM), design-for-test (DfT) considerations.
- Assist in root-cause analysis of production or qualification issues.
Cross Functional Communication:
- Serve as a clear communication bridge between engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders.
- Support business development and sales by providing deep technical insight during customer engagements.
- Contribute to internal documentation, decision logs, and knowledge sharing.