About the role

Mixed Signal IC Developer designing and productizing CMOS products for high-speed optical communication transceivers. Collaborating in a hybrid environment with a dynamic IC design team in Canada.

Responsibilities

Design, layout, measure and productize ultra-deep sub-micron-based CMOS products.
Collaborate with section lead and team members to design blocks on complex chips and track deliverables.
Participate in peer review of complex IC designs and provide solid design methodology from conception to production.
Collaborate with section lead to ensure signal and power integrity specifications are met.
Develop high speed AMS circuits and best-in-class products.

Minimum qualification: Bachelors + 5 years of related experience, or Master’s + 3 years of related experience, or PhD + 0 years of related experience.
Experience in design, simulation and measurement of high speed ICs in at least 3 of the areas:
* High Speed Serial Links utilizing serializers, deserializers, and data converters.
* 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, passives components.
* Experience in design for manufacturability including characterization over PVT and electromigration analysis.
* Experience in laboratory validation including ESD practices/methodology.
* Experience in design software including Cadence (Virtuoso), Specture/APS/SpectreX, layout validation tools and Matlab.