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Payam Heydari
1 week ago
Postdoctoral Scholar — RF/mm-Wave Integrated Circuit Design University of California, Irvine in United States
Degree Level
Postdoc
Field of study
Electrical Engineering
Funding
Salary estimate $71,491-$85,736 per year, with salary following the University of California Postdoctoral Scholar salary scale and appointment renewable for up to three years subject to performance and continued funding.
Deadline
Oct 12, 2027
Country
United States
University
University of California, Irvine
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About this position
The NCIC Laboratory in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine is seeking a postdoctoral scholar to lead circuit and system design for a reconfigurable wideband transceiver aimed at next-generation wireless systems.
Working under the direction of Prof. Payam Heydari, the postdoctoral researcher will contribute across the full hardware stack: designing RF and mm-wave building blocks, integrating a custom silicon front end with a high-throughput digital baseband on an RF System-on-Chip FPGA platform, and supporting over-the-air demonstration activities with industry partners.
The project is strongly hardware-oriented and emphasizes ownership from architecture through fabrication, bring-up, and measured results. The role includes layout, verification, tape-out, laboratory characterization of fabricated chips, and system integration for a reconfigurable transceiver platform in advanced CMOS.
Research activities will also involve collaboration with academic and industry partners, mentoring graduate students, and preparing technical reports and publications. The position offers a highly applied environment centered on nanoscale communication integrated circuits and experimental wireless hardware development at UC Irvine.
Funding details
Salary estimate $71,491-$85,736 per year, with salary following the University of California Postdoctoral Scholar salary scale and appointment renewable for up to three years subject to performance and continued funding.
What's required
A Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with a dissertation in RF and analog integrated circuit design and fabrication is required, along with an excellent academic record. Applicants must have extensive tape-out experience and be able to substantiate contributions to several fabricated chips and measured silicon results. Required technical skills include demonstrated RF and mm-wave IC design capability in CMOS or SiGe BiCMOS, fluency with Cadence Virtuoso/Spectre and electromagnetic simulation tools, and baseband FPGA programming in Verilog or VHDL using the Xilinx/AMD Vivado toolchain. Hands-on laboratory measurement experience with vector network analyzers, signal generators, analyzers, and high-speed sampling instrumentation is required, as are a strong publication record and clear technical writing and presentation skills in English. Preferred experience includes nanoscale CMOS or advanced nodes, phased-array and beamforming transceivers, high-speed data converter interfaces, RFSoC-based modem development, OFDM or related waveform processing in hardware, and familiarity with 3GPP NR or O-RAN specifications. A Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science from a major research university is also listed as a basic qualification.
How to apply
Apply online through the UC Irvine recruitment portal at the provided application link. Submit a current CV and the names and contact information for three references. Additional application materials listed include an optional cover letter, optional statement of research, and optional teaching statement.
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Prof. at University of California, Irvine
United States
Research Interests
Hardware Engineering
Electromagnetic
Radio Frequency Engineering
Millimeter-wave Technology
Digital Electronics
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