Experienced Analog / Mixed-Signal IC Design Engineer
Title dependent upon experience and expertise: (Principal, Senior)
General Description: Our client company is seeking senior or principal level IC designers for the design of high-speed mixed signal IC’s for high bit-rate (10 to 40 Gb/s) telecom and datacom applications and for high-speed test and measurement applications.
Tasks:
Responsible for the design of
laser drivers and modulator drivers for 10 Gb/s optical transmitters
transimpedance amplifiers for 10 Gb/s optical receivers
high speed multiplexers and demultiplexers
wideband amplifiers, comparators
high speed CML digital circuits
Bipolar and CMOS circuit design
High frequency IC test including use of sampling oscilloscope, spectrum analyzers, network analyzer, bit error rate tester
Contribute to technical leadership and direction of the IC design team.
Interacting with customers to assist in design-ins, de-bugging of customer issues
Interaction with Packaging, Test, Application and Product engineers.
Mentoring of younger, less-experienced designers.
Requirements:
Electrical Engineering BS with ³ 8 years of experience; Electrical Engineering MS with ³ 5 years of experience; Electrical Engineering Ph.D. with a circuits emphasis.
Completion of several product design cycles.
Extensive bipolar and/or CMOS analog/mixed-signal high-speed design experience.
Experienced (hands on) in test and characterization of high-speed mixed-signal ASICs
Solid CAD tool experience (Cadence, Agilent ADS, or similar)
Experience in designing for manufacturability and testability
Work well in teams
Good organizational and communication skills.
Desirable:
Good understanding of semiconductor devices
Good understanding of microwave theory
Design experience in bipolar, BiCMOS, CMOS, GaAs PHEMT
Fiber optic transmitter and receiver design experience
Profile:
Our client company is a privately held fabless electronic components company located in Westlake Village, Southern California. They deliver high-speed precision electronic components that enable our customers to build the highest performance, most cost-competitive computing, communications, and instrumentation systems. They have assembled a talented team of high-speed circuit and package designers with extensive hands-on experience in multiple semiconductor processes, including CMOS, GaAs, SiGe, and InP. Their engineers choose the right process technology for the target application and draw upon innovative design techniques in order to provide customers with the optimum balance of cost, speed, performance, and size for any given specification. They have a team of brilliant, innovative, hard-working employees and are looking to build to our existing team. You will be working with the best of best and will enjoy the benefits that come with the success of being an industry leader. We offer a full benefit package, which includes pre IPO stock options.