"Senior Design Engineer – RF (R&D)"

Applications are invited for the temporary post of Senior Design Engineer – RF (R&D) for Solid-State Microwave Generator Group, India Centre for Lab Grown Diamond (InCent – LGD), IIT Madras.

Co-ordinator: Prof. M. S. Ramachandra Rao, Department of Physics, IIT Madras

Name of Institution: Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Institution Profile: The Institute strongly believes that talent and good ideas can come from anywhere and has a remarkably diverse community, drawing students from across all Indian states and from various countries. Intensely curious and driven to explore, the student community of IIT Madras value rigorous analytical thinking, ingenuity, hands-on problem solving, and big new ideas. The departments and centres of the Institute are responsible for the academic activities which include Teaching, Research and Industrial Consultancy. The courses of study are organized as semester programs and each semester provides for a minimum of seventy instructional days. The medium of instruction is English. Students are evaluated on a continuous basis throughout the semester. Evaluation is done by the faculty, a consequence of the autonomous status granted to the Institute. Research work is evaluated on the basis of the review thesis by peer examiners both from within the country and abroad.

Duration: Initially for one year, later extendable based on the performance.

Number of Vacancies: 02

Job Title: Senior Design Engineer

Essential Qualifications:

• Master’s degree with 3+ years of industrial experience in R&D in area of RF/Microwave engineering.
• Hands-on experience in designing and simulating developing RF oscillators/Signal generators, antenna design and matching network circuits for high frequency applications using ADS and HFSS, strong fundamentals of RF/Microwave, PCB design and RF hardware debugging.

Job Description:

• Senior Design Engineer will be responsible for designing and developing RF oscillators/Signal generators and related circuit design.
• Theoretical and analytical skills in design and analysing circuits.
• The role requires you to work with device fabrication and related cross functional teams.
• Should be independently able to perform RF component selection, PCB design.
• Candidate should have a strong innovative mind set and be able to work as a team.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in designing RF / Microwave circuits and experience with s parameter analysis, harmonic balance, and EM simulation.
• Good theoretical and practical understanding of RF engineering fundamentals and test methodology.
• Hand on experience in using RF test equipment like VNA, Scopes, spectrum analyser etc.
• Experience in design tools related to RF and Microwave engineering such as ADS, HFSS.
• Should be able to perform phase noise, jitter and stability measurements for evaluation of RF circuit performance.
• The ability to code control firmware using MCU and FPGA will be an added advantage.
• Understanding system architecture design & cross-functional integration.
• Experience in working with global semiconductor manufacturing companies will be a plus.
• Relevant trainings on RF design and will be a plus.

Pay Scale: Consolidated pay Rs. 75,000/(minimum) per month all inclusive; actual salary will be commensurate with qualifications, experience, and expertise.

The last date for submission of online application is 20.05.2024.

General Instructions to the Candidates: All the positions are on purely contract basis. The completion of the period of contract will not confer any right for further extension, regularization, permanency at the Institute. Candidates should apply online only in the website https://icandsr.iitm.ac.in/recruitment/ (Please check the advertisement number Advt. 69/2024 displayed and submit the application for the relevant position). Separate application has to be filled for each post. ... [abbreviated for brevity, include key points as above].