Robert Maurer
Escondido,CA
Summary
Experienced MMIC/RFIC designer seeking challenging opportunities in IC design, product integration, and technical leadership
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff RFIC/MMIC Engineer
Psemi Corp
San Diego, CA
11.2022 - Current
- Lead designer of mm-wave PCBs and laminate packages for mixers & beamforming ICs
- Create streamlined HFSS PCB design flow used for multiple projects and design teams. Received 2024 Spotlight Award for Innovation and Creativity for this work
- Drive and improve thermal simulation procedure for PA, FEM, and Package design and HTOL test optimization
- Build interpolating parametric FEM simulated inductor library app in matlab using python and HFSS to populate with data
- Design & measurement of fully co-simulated mm-wave switch ICs and PCBs
RF/Microwave Engineer 4 (Staff Engineer)
Marki Microwave Inc.
Morgan Hill, CA
09.2017 - 09.2022
- Lead designer for 11 GaAs amplifier MMICs on Marki's catalog
- Managed and/or personally completed the timely product release packets for 20 different amplifier products - including prototyping, data collection, application circuits, datasheet composition, BOMs, and assembly drawings
- Recruited and interviewed engineering candidates and provided technical leadership, mentorship, and coaching to engineering hires
- Established design team procedures for design handoff to product engineering team
- Directly handled the most difficult technical customer support inquiries regarding amplifiers and hybrid modules containing amplifiers
- Troubleshot issues related to test and measurement equipment, product reliability, assembly procedures, and applications
- Collaborated with cross functional teams including manufacturing, QA, purchasing, reliability, applications, sales/marketing, and test engineering to consistently meet release deadlines and maintain existing products
Graduate Student Researcher
University Of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
06.2011 - 09.2017
- Designed and characterized state of the art MMICs in InP HBT and Si SOI CMOS technology in Professor Mark Rodwell's reseach group
- Design and measurement of scalable baseband MIMO beamforming matrix in 45nm Si SOI technology for spatially multiplexed 60/140 GHz phased array system
- Design and characterization of W-band gain blocks for high dynamic-range dual conversion transmitter/receiver in 130 nm InP HBT technology
- Published and presented research in technical conferences
- Mentored and trained new researchers on circuit design practices, MMIC test and measurement, writing papers, and presenting research at technical conferences
- Teaching assistant for junior level analog transistor circuits course - taught supplementary classes, supervised and assessed laboratory projects, graded homework & exams, and held open office hours to assist students with any relevant questions
Education
Ph.D. - Electrical And Computer Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA09.2017
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN05.2011
Skills
- Design, simulation, and characterization of III-V MMICs - PAs, LNAs, Switches, Filters, Attenuators
- Stability design/analysis
- mm-wave PCB design/optimization
- Experienced with GaAs, SOI Si, and InP material systems
- S-Parameter, Linearity, Power measurements, load/source pull, noise figure, IMD distortion measurements
- Prototype/package assembly design and troubleshooting
- Automation of design optimization using Matlab, HFSS, Python, ADS
- Thermal design & simulations (ANSYS Workbench)
- Leadership, teaching & mentorship
- Communication & collaboration between cross functional teams to complete timely product launches with a deadline
- Hands-on lab work to identify product failure modes, establish production test methodologies/templates, assess validity of test data, verify/improve simulation models
- Ability to present and communicate clearly in both big picture, high-level contexts and nuanced technical contexts
- Highly experienced with Momentum/ADS, HFSS, FEM/25D EM simulation and circuit simulator software
- Familiar with Cadence Virtuoso, AutoCAD, Sage, Jira, Agile
Publications
- R Maurer, S-K Kim, M Urteaga, MJW Rodwell, "Ultra-wideband mm-Wave InP Power Amplifiers in 130 nm InP HBT Technology", Compound Semiconductor IC Symposium (2016)
- R Maurer, S-K Kim, M Urteaga, MJW Rodwell, "High-linearity W-band Amplifiers in 130 nm InP HBT Technology", Compound Semiconductor IC Symposium (2016)
- S-K Kim, R Maurer, A Simsek, M Urteaga, MJW Rodwell, "Ultra-Low-Power Components for a 94 GHz Transceiver", Compound Semiconductor IC Symposium (2016)
- S-K Kim, R Maurer, A Simsek, M Urteaga, MJW Rodwell, "A High-Dynamic-Range W-band Frequency-Conversion IC for Microwave Dual-Conversion Receivers", Compound Semiconductor IC Symposium (2016)
Timeline
Staff RFIC/MMIC Engineer
Psemi Corp
11.2022 - Current
RF/Microwave Engineer 4 (Staff Engineer)
Marki Microwave Inc.
09.2017 - 09.2022
Graduate Student Researcher
University Of California, Santa Barbara
06.2011 - 09.2017
Ph.D. - Electrical And Computer Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
University of Notre Dame
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