Lead Mixed-Signal ASIC Engineer — Equity & Aussie Role

The Onset Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Superannuation

Full Australian working rights

Job summary

The Onset Group is seeking an experienced Mixed-Signal ASIC Lead to own the external design partnership and drive the first product ASIC from specification to silicon. You will join an early-stage deep tech team developing diamond-based quantum sensing into compact devices and will influence how the market is approached with a practical, tested CMOS solution.

You will lead cross-disciplinary hardware and firmware efforts, bring up first silicon, and work closely with industry partners to align

Qualifications

• Around five to ten years in mixed-signal ASIC design, including photosensor design or validation.
• Experience taking a chip from specification to measured silicon, with a clear account of your contribution.
• Confidence investigating differences between simulation and bench results.
• The judgement to challenge a design partner and explain trade-offs to colleagues across disciplines.
• A willingness to get into the lab and work through the problem yourself.

Responsibilities

• Define CMOS requirements and manage outsourced design and characterisation through to tape-out.
• Review simulations against specifications and bring up first silicon, including packaged parts and bare die.
• Characterise noise, linearity, bandwidth, power and photosensor performance across temperature and supply conditions.
• Correlate measurements with simulation, automate repeatable tests and feed findings into the next design.
• Develop test interfaces, including package/PCB layout, needle probing and probe cards.
• Support ASIC integration, FPGA controller programming and migration of FPGA functions into future CMOS/SoC designs.

Skills

Mixed-signal ASIC design

Photosensor design/validation

Chip specification to silicon

Bench vs simulation analysis

Job description

The Onset Group is seeking an experienced Mixed-Signal ASIC Lead to own the external design partnership and drive the first product ASIC from specification to silicon. You will join an early-stage deep tech team developing diamond-based quantum sensing into compact devices and will influence how the market is approached with a practical, tested CMOS solution.

You will lead cross-disciplinary hardware and firmware efforts, bring up first silicon, and work closely with industry partners to align