SerDes Architecture & Modelling Engineer — Research-Driven UK

IC Resources; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

IC Resources is seeking a SerDes Architecture and Modelling Engineer for a UK-based semiconductor client. The role can be based in Cambridge or the Thames Valley, focused on research and architecture rather than fixed implementations.

You will bridge mathematical modelling, software development, and high-speed semiconductor hardware design, building system models, evaluating new architectures and translating concepts into practical transceiver designs.

Qualifications

• Experience with system-level modelling of communication systems, high-speed interfaces, SerDes or related tech.
• Understanding of signal integrity, channel behaviour, noise, jitter, equalisation and link-performance analysis.
• Ability to translate system requirements into block-level specifications and collaborate with mixed-discipline teams to validate models.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop new concepts for high-speed serial communication systems.
• Build system-level models to investigate, compare and optimise new architectures.
• Develop signal processing algorithms and evaluate their impact on link performance.
• Use MATLAB, Python or C++ to model communication systems and test new ideas.
• Work with architects and IC designers to translate research concepts into practical transceiver architectures.
• Analyse system limitations including signal integrity, noise, power and clock recovery.
• Define link budgets and block-level specifications based on system requirements.
• Support analog, digital and verification teams throughout the development process.

Skills

System-level modelling

SerDes

Signal processing

Link performance analysis

Tools

MATLAB

Python

C++

Job description

IC Resources is seeking a SerDes Architecture and Modelling Engineer for a UK-based semiconductor client. The role can be based in Cambridge or the Thames Valley, focused on research and architecture rather than fixed implementations.

You will bridge mathematical modelling, software development, and high-speed semiconductor hardware design, building system models, evaluating new architectures and translating concepts into practical transceiver designs.