Principal Digital (Mix Signal) Architect

Responsibilities

• Be the digital architecture owner of Lightmatter’s Passage product.
• Responsible for the digital architecture from initial concept through high-volume production.
• Work closely with the technical program manager(s) to plan, organize, and execute.
• Lead direct collaboration with top tier semiconductor customer(s) throughout the product development process at the system architecture level.
• Architect and specify system level digital designs integrating complex AMS and photonic circuits. These circuits include high-speed drivers and receivers, SerDes, ADC/DAC, photonic modulators and detectors.
• Collaborate with the product team to develop our future technological and product roadmap.
• Work closely with test and validation engineers to validate hardware against simulation prediction.
• Actively collaborate with the RTL and DV teams to enable block-level implementation and verification, respectively.
• Author, review, and validate architectural specifications.
• Identify possible improvements as well as possible pitfalls (including mitigation strategies) around executing the proposed architectures.

Qualifications

• 12+ years and a Masters’ degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering
• In-depth knowledge of power-efficient digital design flow for high-speed AMS electronics, preferably on photonic communication channels
• Proven track record of delivering successful high-volume silicon in the market. Also, proven understanding of silicon product development flow
• In-depth knowledge of digital circuit design in a high-speed analog/photonic link, including device bring-up, control, and digital signal processing
• Demonstrated strong problem solving skills specifically pertaining to problems that do not have obvious solutions
• Demonstrated strong customer communication, with timely responses and consistently positive feedback
• Understanding of SerDes PCS layer and equalization along with forward error-correction schemes
• Ability and desire to collaborate in a cross-disciplinary team
• Power user of multiple development tools, including CAD tools, SPICE simulators, IBIS-AMI simulators, and general programming languages (e.g., MATLAB or Python)
• Willing and able to learn quickly. Self-starter with a “no task is too big or small” attitude
• Innovative and flexible; realizes that a one-size-fits-all approach will not always solve the problem at hand
• Data-driven and analytical; translates numbers into actionable strategies
• Process-oriented and programmatic: builds structure through processes that can be relied upon across the organization