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

Requirements

About you:

You're excited by the opportunity to work with breakthrough technologies. You may thrive in this role if you have some or all the following:

Education & experience:

• Experience developing RF modules or sub-systems (PAs, LNAs, duplexers, filters, etc) intended for high-volume production
• Knowledge of low-noise, low-power, and high-linearity design techniques used in 4G/5G RF front-end modules
• A strong understanding of RF fundamentals, including impedance matching, Smith charts, passive RLC networks, linearity, and harmonic behaviour

Life assurance x 4

Income protection

Healthshield Cash plan

Heka flexible benefits platform

We believe in equal opportunities

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.