Contract Game Designer designing systems, economies, mechanics, and narrative content for Kabam’s award - winning multiplayer games. Collaborating with leads and development teams on implementation - ready designs.
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- Senior analog/mixed-signal IC Designer developing high-speed CMOS circuits for Cisco Acacia optical transceivers. Leading complex chip blocks, ASIC integration, validation and design methodology.
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, lay out, measure and productize ultra-deep-submicron CMOS products
- Develop high-speed and high-accuracy analog designs for optical communications products
- Lead efforts for a large block on a complex chip
- Mentor team members and track deliverables
- Participate in peer reviews of complex IC designs
- Provide design methodology from conception through production
- Collaborate with packaging and hardware design teams to meet signal- and power-integrity specifications
- Collaborate with mixed-signal engineers to optimize designs for ASIC integration
- Interact with digital/DSP, system, package and module design groups
Requirements
- BSEE degree with 12+ years of experience, or an MS degree with 8+ years of experience, or a PhD with 5+ years of experience
- Experience in design, simulation and measurement of high-speed ICs in at least 3 listed areas
- Experience with high-speed serial links using serializers, deserializers and data converters
- Experience modeling requirements for system link simulations
- Experience with high-performance output drivers
- Experience with high-performance phase-locked loops
- Experience with efficient clock transmission/propagation
- Experience with op-amps and programmable gain amplifiers
- Experience with equalization techniques
- Preferred: experience with electrical transceiver applications, including backplane and cable communications
- Preferred: experience in FinFET and GAA technologies
- Preferred: high-frequency layout experience, including floorplanning, power/ground and digital/analog signal routing, inductors, transformers and transmission lines
- Preferred: design-for-manufacturability experience, including PVT characterization, electromigration, self-heating and IR-drop analysis
- Preferred: laboratory validation experience, including ESD practices/methodology and test setup construction
- Preferred: experience with Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre/APS/SpectreX, Virtuoso and Calibre, EMX, AMS mixed-signal simulations and Matlab
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 unit grants may be available, subject to eligibility and continued employment
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- Paid birthday day off
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- 16 days of paid vacation per full calendar year for non-exempt employees
- Flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit for eligible exempt employees
- 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
- Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues
- Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year
- Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco policies
- Sales incentive compensation for employees on sales plans, subject to applicable Cisco plans
- Cisco careers site offers additional benefits and perks
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