Will we one day live in a world with no wires? Well, that’s a long way off, but there’s currently huge demand in Europe vis a vis jobs for IC and systems designers with RF expertise. RF IC Design engineers and RF System of Board level designers are sought after by companies in Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Ireland, with a particular spike in demand within the UK.
This demand springs from a number of industry trends merging around RF issues. LTE is nascent, smart grids and new health innovations demand remote or wireless monitoring, and the automotive industry wants to hook up cars to networks while they’re “on the go”. All these, and many other, applications need new RF solutions and can be vastly improved by more integrated chips.
This is good news for RF companies, and of course the test platform companies down the line. Unfortunately the number of people studying RF has been too low for too long – it’s a challenge to find people in Europe to do RF development who don’t need a work permit. To ensure these key jobs don’t go overseas, we need creative ways of attracting new employees – some of these need government cooperation!
IC Resources is a recruitment company placing semiconductor professionals with IC companies worldwide, with a focus on UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Benelux, Italy, Spain, etc. Areas covered include RF IC design jobs, analogue and mixed signal IC design jobs, ASIC design and verification jobs, test and product IC engineering jobs, semiconductor equipment engineering jobs, IC sales jobs (account manager to VP), IC marketing and business development jobs, semiconductor FAE jobs, and executive roles (VP IC engineering, VP IC Operations, etc).
