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Imagine working on the front lines of innovation! As one of the semiconductor industry's leading suppliers of wafer fabrication equipment and services, our technology depends on finding and hiring the best and the brightest employees. We know that our dynamic, global team of exceptional employees is essential to our continued growth.

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We are a company comprised of people who work hard, deliver outstanding results and maintain a sense of humor during even the most challenging times. This is truly a rare opportunity. Lam Research is a market leader where our core values are not just words on the back of your badge. Given the criticality of this role to Lam Research's success, this philosophy starts with you.

This is a new position in Lam’s Deposition Products Group (DPG) located in Portland, Oregon.  We are looking for a Radio Frequency Engineer with practical RF and Plasma Physics experience.

The Staff RF Engineer  will develop new RF technology / systems and provide existing product sustenance. 

Success in this role requires knowledge of:                      

• Design and delivery of multiple (successful) high-power RF products, from production through delivery to customer
• High voltage design
• Plasma Physics
• Transmission line theory
• Impedance matching
• RF filter design
• Metering and RF power measurement circuit design
• RF sub-system/box level design including interface specifications and margin analysis
• Cable harness design, documentation, and fabricationPractical RF engineering design practices such as shielding, power supplies, RF measurements, calibration techniques, and signal analysis                      

Qualifications:                                   

• Minimum of a BS in Electrical Engineering; MS preferred
• 5+ years’ experience in high power RF design in the kW range
• Ability to rapidly generate design concepts and implement them
• Excellent structured problem solving, analysis and trouble-shooting skills
• Ability to travel intermittently (domestic and international)

Additional required skills and abilities include the ability to work with vendors to implement designs in a timely, cost-effective manner; strong organization, creativity, and team leadership skills; organizational acumen; professional communication skills; and the ability to work well in a cross functional team environment.

Experience beneficial for this role includes design and analysis of RF systems, and design of industrial electronics, control systems, I/O, and high voltage power supplies; knowledge of the semiconductor industry, plasma, and capital equipment.

This posting is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities but constitutes a general definition of the scope and function of the position.  

Our work is everywhere you look – even if you can’t actually see it. Lam Research goes deeper than software or chips to the heart of the process that enables chip creation. So if you want to help power the components that empower everything, join us.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.