Senior Analog Design Engineer

This position requires sound technical experience in full custom analog/mixed-signal circuit design, custom layout, circuit simulations, reliability investigation, post-silicon characterization and a deep understanding of silicon IP design requirements with the ability to drive and train junior engineers to become experts with new methodologies.

• Review SerDes standards to develop analog top and sub-block specifications.
• Ability to drive projects and guide junior engineers.
• Exercise independent judgement to identify and refine circuit architectures to achieve optimal power, area and performance targets.
• Propose design and verification strategies that efficiently use simulator features to ensure highest quality design.
• Oversee physical layout to minimize the effect of parasitics, device stress, and process variation.
• Review and present simulation data for peer and customer review.
• Define and document design features and test plans.
• Propose solutions for post-silicon design updates.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar technical field
• BSEE degree and 3+ years of experience in IC design, or MSEE (or PhD) with 1+ years of experience.
• Design experience in high speed PHY
• In depth familiarity with transistor level circuit design - sound CMOS design fundamentals
• Design experience with one, and familiarity with several other SerDes sub-circuits:
• receive equalizers,
• samplers,
• voltage/current-mode drivers,
• serializers, deserializers,
• voltage-controlled oscillator,
• phase mixer,
• delay-locked loop, phase locked loop,
• bandgap reference,
• ADC, DAC.
• Familiarity with custom digital design (i.e. high-speed critical paths).
• Knowledge of design for reliability (i.e. EM, IR, aging, etc.)
• Expertise of layout effects (i.e. matching, reliability, proximity effects, etc.).
• Experience with tools for schematic entry, physical layout, and design verification.
• Expertise of SPICE simulators and simulation methods.
• Knowledgeable in Verilog-A for analog behavioral modeling and simulation-control/data-capture.
• Experience with TCL, Perl, C, Python, MATLAB, or other scripting languages is desired
• Hands-on experience with physical layout of high-speed circuits is a plus
• Good communication and documentation skills

Meet unique performance, power, and size requirements of their target applications. And get differentiated products to market quickly with reduced risk.

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