Staff RF Power Management System Engineer

Job Title

Staff RF Power Management System Engineer

Role Summary

Drive product definition and system architecture for RF power-management and bias-control solutions used in radar, electronic warfare, satellite communications, aerospace, and high-performance communications systems. Work across RF power amplifiers, analog/mixed-signal ICs, power delivery, and embedded control to produce scalable product architectures, specifications, models, and validation plans.

Experience Level

Senior-level professional. Role expects senior experience; posting lists 8+ years of relevant experience (or equivalent advanced education + experience).

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include defining systems, translating requirements, and driving cross-functional validation:

• Lead system-level product definition and architecture for RF power-management and bias-control solutions.
• Translate customer, application, and market requirements into product specifications and system architectures.
• Define requirements for PA biasing, power sequencing, monitoring, protection, pulsed operation, and system control.
• Analyze interactions among RF PAs, bias circuits, power supplies, control electronics, and thermal environments.
• Develop system models and perform tradeoff analyses across efficiency, switching performance, RF metrics, thermal behavior, size, and cost.
• Collaborate with customers, product management, RF engineering, IC design, validation, packaging, test, and manufacturing teams.
• Define validation strategies, evaluation platforms, reference designs, and application demonstrations.
• Lead technical reviews and shepherd concepts through validation and customer adoption; identify and mitigate system risks.
• Create technical documentation, system block diagrams, customer presentations, and validation plans.

Requirements

Must-have skills and constraints for the role; preferred items are listed separately.

• 8+ years of relevant experience in RF power amplifiers, power management, analog/mixed-signal electronics, or equivalent advanced education and experience.
• Proven systems engineering experience integrating RF PAs with biasing, power delivery, sequencing, protection, and control.
• Experience with GaN and/or GaAs RF systems and their transient/thermal behavior.
• Hands-on experience in system modeling, simulation, laboratory characterization, and technical leadership across functions.
• Ability to translate customer and system requirements into specifications, architectures, trade-off analyses, and validation plans.
• Experience working directly with customers and field teams to capture system challenges and requirements.
• Familiarity with designing evaluation platforms, reference designs, and application demonstrations.
• This position requires access to ITAR/EAR technologies; applicant must be a US Person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, asylee, or refugee) or otherwise eligible for necessary export authorizations.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field is required. Master's degree or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field is preferred. The posting accepts equivalent advanced education and experience in lieu of specified degrees.

About the Company

Company: Qorvo

Headquarters: Greensboro, NC, US

Qorvo supplies innovative semiconductor solutions that enhance connectivity and power for a variety of applications, including consumer electronics, automotive, and healthcare. With a focus on RF and power solutions, Qorvo combines technology leadership and global manufacturing to address complex challenges in fast-growing industries. Their commitment to excellence and innovation drives them to shape the future of wireless communications.