Analog Mixed-Signal Design Engineer

Job Duties

• Design, develop, and characterize embedded analog circuits, such as high speed I/O, SerDes, FIFO, CDR, PLL, etc.
• Design and debug RTL level signal synchronization, clock tree and conduct cross domain clock designs.
• Evaluate and characterize the circuit performance under various conditions such as process variation and mismatches, power supply change, high/low working temperature, noise and crosstalk.
• Perform analysis of circuits’ performance degradation and signal integrity drop due to layout induced parasitic effects based on simulations with extracted post-layout circuit netlist.
• Work closely with system and test engineers to develop high speed interface, package/board, and system clocks in image sensor and bridge chip products.
• Conduct Layout design and support. Get involved into layout optimizations for high speed or high precision performance directly.
• Use Cadence analog design/layout flow and spice/spectre MDL simulations.
• Perform transistor level integrated circuit design and simulation.
• Develop clock generator and distribution tree circuits with low jitter and low duty-cycle distortion.
• Design accurate analog biasing and reference circuit for IO links.
• Characterize the IO links circuit performance under non-ideal environment (high power supply noise, crosstalk, process variation and mismatches).
• Use software: Cadence Virtuoso, Cadence Spectre simulator and AFS simulators.
• Cooperate with other circuit designer to solve problems and issues discovered on system level.
• Assist top-level circuit designer in checking register settings, power and ground layout routing and connections between blocks of the certain circuit.
• Debug and design change solutions on signal integrity, EMI/RFI.
• Develop the floor-plan of IO link that is friendly to signal-integrity.
• Develop and improve ESD circuit on the IC chip to pass industry ESD standards.
• Perform necessary data analysis on simulation results.
• Write design documents to record design review, updated information, knowledge and lesson learned from projects.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Circuits & Systems, or a related field.
• Require one year of experience as an Analog Design Engineer.
• Must Possess The Following Experience:
• Experience in researching and developing with embedded MIPI C/D-PHY transmitter circuit.
• Expertise in programming using Python, perl, scilab and Cshell;
• Experience with EDA tools such as Cadence Virtuoso, Cadence Simvision, Cadence Layout in circuit design;
• Experience in RTL level functional block behavioral verification;
• Experience in using Hspice, Spectre to build-up analog circuit test bench to perform transistor level simulation on analog/mixed-signal circuits;
• Experience in using EDA tools such as EZwave, Cadence Viva to check the simulation result, plot eye-diagram and evaluate circuit performance;
• Experience with chip test instruments such as oscilloscope, function generator, power supply and network analyzer;
• Experienced with high-speed circuit layout support.

Annual base salary for this role in California, US is expected to be between $156,853 - $160,000. Actual pay will be determined on a number of factors such as relevant skills and experience, and the pay of employees in the similar role.