Nujira is seeking to recruit 10 designers in an expansion of its design centre in Cambridge.
The high efficiency power system firm is expanding its development team with semiconductor and RF designers following a volume order for its Coolteq power modulator module.
“Our modules are currently either being evaluated under contract or embedded into products by 15 top cellular and broadcast infrastructure vendors,” said Gordon Neish, vice-president of engineering at Nujira.
Nujira recently announced volume production of the Coolteq module for cellular base stations at Sanmina-SCI in Shenzhen, China.
“To complement this interest, we now need to recruit 10 engineers to be based at our design centre in Cambridge,” said Neish.
In September, Nujira secured
$18m in series C funding and in October it opened a
second design centre in Bath.
“These are exciting times for Nujira. We realise many parts of the sector are facing an uncertain future and we hope our expansion will be the first of many such announcements over the coming months,” said recruitment manager, Shaun West.
Nujira’s technology can improve the power efficiency of mobile basestations by modulating the power supply to the RF power amplifier as the transmission requirements change.
The RF power modulation technology was first designed to increase the efficiency of 650W power amplifiers in 3G mobile basestations. Nujira is working on a lower power version, which could improve power efficiency in next-generation 3G long-term evolution mobile handsets.
In October, Nujira recognised the availability of RF design skills among the engineering workforce in the West Country and chose a site near Bath for a second design centre.
“There is a pool of RF systems, digital pre-distortion and digital/analogue IC design expertise in the Bristol area; our new office harnesses this to help customers bring to market the most efficient possible RF transmitter design,” said CEO Tim Haynes.