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- Mixed-signal ASIC designer sustaining and developing high-speed optical transceivers at Cisco. Designing CMOS ICs, diagnosing lab issues, and collaborating across hardware teams.
Responsibilities
- Support circuit-design issues found in the lab or by customers
- Analyze lab data and identify probable circuits involved
- Run post-layout circuit simulations in Cadence
- Correlate observed issues and determine root causes
- Use lab equipment such as DCA and spectrum analyzers
- Use Python scripts
- Design, lay out, measure, and productize ultra-deep-submicron CMOS products
- Participate in peer reviews of complex IC designs
- Provide design methodology from conception through production
- Collaborate with Testing, ATE, reliability, packaging, and hardware design teams
- Identify, design, and implement power and signaling solutions
Requirements
- BSEE degree with 8+ years of experience or equivalent, or an MS degree with 7+ years of experience or equivalent, or a PhD with 1+ years of experience or equivalent
- Design, simulation and measurement of high-speed ICs experience in at least 3 listed areas
- Experience with high-speed serial links, serializers, deserializers, data converters, voltage regulators, output drivers, phase-locked loops, clock transmission/propagation, opamps, programmable gain amplifiers, or equalization
- Experience with electrical transceiver applications including backplane and cable communications preferred
- Experience with FinFET technology preferred
- High-frequency layout experience preferred, including inductors, transformers, and transmission lines
- Floorplanning experience preferred
- Custom transistor layout experience preferred
- Experience designing for manufacturability preferred
- Experience with ESD laboratory practices and methodology preferred
- Experience with Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre/APS/SpectreX, Matlab, and EMX preferred
- Experience with mixed-signal simulations in AMS preferred
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Cisco restricted stock units, subject to eligibility and continued employment
- Paid holidays
- Floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- Employee birthday day off
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown
- Personal wellness days
- Paid vacation / flexible vacation time off program
- Sick time off
- Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues
- Optional paid volunteer days
- Annual bonuses for non-sales roles
- Performance-based incentive pay for sales roles
- Professional growth opportunities
- Hybrid work with three days per week onsite at the Ottawa office
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