IC Design Developer working on high-speed analog designs for 100G, 400G, and beyond optical communications. Collaborating with mixed-signal engineers on CMOS products design and productization.
Responsibilities
Architect, design, layout, measure and productize ultra-deep sub-micron-based CMOS products.
Lead efforts for a large block on a complex chip.
Mentor team members and track deliverables.
Participate in peer review of complex IC designs.
Provide solid design methodology from conception to production.
Collaborate with packaging and hardware design team to ensure signal and power integrity specifications are met.
Requirements
Minimum qualification: Bachelors + 8 years of related experience, or Masters + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience
Experience in design, simulation and measurement of high speed ICs in at least 3 of the areas listed below:
* High Speed Serial Links utilizing serializers, deserializers, and data convertors.
* Modeling requirements for system link simulations
* High Performance Output Drivers
* High Performance Phase Locked Loops
* Efficient clock transmission/propagation.
* Opamps and Programmable Gain Amplifiers.
* Equalization techniques.
Preferred Qualifications: Experience with electrical transceiver applications including backplane and cable communications.
Experience in FinFET and GAA technologies.
High-frequency layout experience including floorplaning (power/ground, digital/analog signal routing), passives components (inductors, transformers, and transmission-lins).
Experience in design for manufacturability including characterization over PVT, electromigration analysis,self-heating, and IR drop analysis.
Experience in laboratory validation including ESD practices/methodology and construction of test setups.
Experience in design software including Cadence (Virtuoso), Specture/APS/SpectreX, layout validation tools (Virtuoso and Calibre), EMX, mixed-signal simulations in AMS, and Matlab.
Benefits
medical, dental and vision insurance
a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
paid parental leave
short and long-term disability coverage
basic life insurance
10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
paid year-end holiday shutdown
4 paid days off for personal wellness
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year
Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies
paid performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary
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