Matthew Marsicano's Portfolio

Matthew Marsicano

Hello, I'm Matthew

Electrical Engineering @ Northeastern University · Class of 2027

3.95 GPA · Silicon Engineering · PCB Design · RF and Mixed-Signal Systems

Areas of Interest

Roles I'm targeting for my engineering career

Analog / Mixed-Signal IC Design

  • Led zero-IF WiFi 7 transceiver characterization at MediaTek: DAC, ADC, front end, SI
  • 8-bit SKY130 SAR ADC and 40-100 MHz PLL with custom schematic and layout
  • FlashNPU: flash-streaming inference accelerator RTL

Product Development

  • Generate Product Development Studio: Principal Electrical Engineer, leading 100+ engineers across 8 client projects
  • Own trade-offs in RF TX, power, and robotic actuators
  • Founder & Director of Forge Silicon Design, Northeastern's first chip design student org

Wireless & RF Systems

  • MIPI RFFE compliance automation and 20 GHz PCB material characterization at Google
  • GPS receiver validation for Space Force handoff (Draper)
  • Backscatter PCB testbench across 300+ devices at Nokia Bell Labs
  • BLE backscatter modem TinyTapeout tile

Work Experience

My professional journey

Summer 2024

DEKA R&D

Embedded Software Engineering Intern

Spring 2025

Nokia Bell Labs

Backscatter Radio Engineer Co-op

Summer 2025

Draper

Systems Engineering Intern

Spring 2026

MediaTek

Analog/Mixed-Signal IC Engineer Intern

Summer 2026

Google

Hardware Engineer Intern, Pixel Phone Hardware · Chicago, IL

Honors & Recognition

Selected for competitive industry and university programs

Apple Next-Gen Innovators Mentee

1 of 10 Northeastern students selected for Apple's Hardware Engineering mentorship program · Sep 2025 – May 2026

Amazon Edge Technology Scholarship

1 of 3 students selected for the scholarship · October 2025

Silevitch Engineering Leadership Scholarship

Northeastern University · April 2026

MIT iQuHack 2024

2nd place, QuEra Challenge: quantum optimization algorithms for the Maximal Independent Set problem

What's Next?

Looking ahead to the next chapter

EE Masters Programs

Applying Fall 2026

Full-Time Engineering

Seeking opportunities