Analog Design, Staff Engineer

Job Responsibilities:

• Review 112G and 224G SerDes standards and architecture documents to develop analog sub-block specifications.
• Identify and refine circuit implementations 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.
• Collaborate with digital RTL engineers on the development of calibration, adaptation and control algorithms for analog circuits.
• Present simulation data for peer and customer review.
• Mentor and Review the progress of junior engineers.
• Document design features and test plans.
• Consult on the electrical characterization of your circuit within the SerDes IP product.

Job Requirements:

• PhD with 5+ years, or MSc with 8+ years of SerDes/High-Speed analog design experience.
• In-depth familiarity with transistor level circuit design – sound CMOS design fundamentals.
• Silicon-proven experience implementing circuits for the TX, RX and Clock paths within a SerDes
• Detailed design experience with several of the following SerDes sub-circuits:
  receive equalizers, data samplers, voltage/current-mode drivers, serializers, deserializers, voltage-controlled oscillator, phase interpolator, delay-locked loop, phase-locked loop, bandgap reference, ADC, DAC
• Experience optimizing FinFET CMOS layout to minimize the effect of parasitic resistance and capacitance, and to reduce the effects of local device mismatch and proximity effects.
• Awareness of ESD issues (i.e. circuit techniques, layout). and design for reliability (i.e. electro-migration, IR, aging, etc.).
• Experience with EDA tools for schematic entry, physical layout, and design verification.
• Knowledge 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.