RF Engineer
Location: Cambridge, UK
Team: Engineering
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 looking for an RF engineer who is excited by the challenge of building cutting-edge RF modules in a fast-moving start-up environment. You will collaborate with IC designers, systems engineers, and software teams to integrate advanced RF technologies into high-performance multi-chip modules and help drive innovative wireless solutions to market.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and develop RF front-end circuits and RF functional blocks to meet the specified performance requirements.
- Collaborate with internal and external IC design teams developing integrated digital tuneable capacitors, power amplifiers (PAs), low noise amplifiers (LNAs), RF switches, digital interfaces, and power management solutions.
- Integrate these design blocks into multi-chip modules, ensuring low-loss and high-performance implementations.
- Optimise module layouts to balance size, performance, and manufacturability.
- Work closely with applications, systems, algorithm, and software teams to optimise overall module performance within target applications.
- Partner with internal stakeholders and test teams to define, develop, and deliver comprehensive module test plans.
- Operate effectively in a fast-paced, highly innovative start-up/scale-up environment.
- Communicate and collaborate efficiently across multidisciplinary teams.
- Document results, design decisions, and technical work clearly, and share knowledge with team members.