Sr. Analog / Mixed Signal IC Design Engineer - Acacia.

TN United Kingdom; Reading; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Sr. Analog / Mixed Signal IC Design Engineer to join their dynamic team in Reading. This role involves designing high-speed, high-accuracy analog circuits for optical communications. You will lead complex projects, mentor team members, and collaborate across departments to ensure product success. If you are passionate about pushing the boundaries of technology and thrive in a collaborative environment, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a company that values innovation and personal growth, and make a significant impact in the field of integrated circuit design.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in IC Design or equivalent.
• Experience in high speed ICs design and simulation.
• Strong background in laboratory validation practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead design efforts for high speed analog designs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for product development.
• Mentor junior engineers and track project deliverables.

Skills

Analog IC Design

Mixed Signal Design

High Speed Serial Links

Voltage Regulators

Opamps

Communication Skills

Education

BSEE or equivalent

MSEE or equivalent

PhD in relevant field

Tools

Spectre

Virtuoso

Matlab

BERT

VNA/PNA

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Sr. Analog / Mixed Signal IC Design Engineer - Acacia., Reading

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Client:

Cisco

Location:

Reading, United Kingdom

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Posted:

26.04.2025

Expiry Date:

10.06.2025

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Job Description:

Acacia designs intelligent transceivers using advanced signal processing and photonic integration for the 100G, 400G and 1T bit speed fiber optic transmission market deployed in data center, metro, long-haul and ultra-long haul telecommunication networks.

What you'll do:

As a member of the Mixed Signal Design team, you will be a key member of a small, dynamic IC Design group that develops high speed (> 25Gb/s), and high accuracy, analog designs for optical communications products. You will architect, design, layout, measure and productize ultra-deep sub-micron-based CMOS products.

You will lead efforts for a large block on a complex chip, mentor team members and track deliverables, participate in peer review of complex IC designs and provide solid design methodology from conception to production.

You will also collaborate with packaging and hardware design team to ensure signal and power integrity specifications are met.

Who you’ll work with:

You will work with other Acacia mixed-signal engineers to collaborate in order to provide an optimized design that will integrate into the ASIC. In addition, you will have the opportunity to interact with other Acacia groups including digital/DSP design, system design, package design, and module design.

Acacia takes pride in providing and fostering a collaborate environment in order ensure success and personal growth.

Who you are:

You are enthusiastic about developing high speed AMS circuits and best-in-class products that push the boundaries of what is possible. You are detail oriented, high energy and the drive to get things done and solve difficult problems.

You are capable to figure things out by yourself, but you also participate in our friendly and team-oriented collaboration approach, which means you enjoy learning from your colleagues and letting them learn from you.

You are not shy to always point out how we can be more effective as a team, and you are open to similar suggestions by your team members.

Your great personal and communication skills allow effortless collaboration within and across teams and to steer the development in a positive direction.

• BSEE degree with 12+ years of experience or equivalent or an MS degree with 8+ years of experience, or equivalent or a PhD with 5+ years of experience, or equivalent
• Design, simulation and measurement of high speed ICs in at least 3 areas below:
• High Speed Serial Links utilising serializers, deserializers, and data convertors.
• Voltage Regulators
• High Performance Output Drivers
• High Performance Phase Locked Loops
• Opamps and Programmable Gain Amplifiers

Preferred qualifications:

• Direct experience with electrical transceiver applications including backplane and cable communications.
• Experience with FinFET technology.

Design for manufacturability:

• Characterization over PVT (monte-carlo analysis)
• Electro-migration analysis (using Totem, or equivalent)
• Power and IR drop analysis

Laboratory Validation:

• Solid ESD laboratory practices and methodology
• Construction of test setup to test specific circuitry

Software Experience:

• Experience in the use of high frequency test equipment (BERT, jitter analyzers, VNA/PNA, etc.)
• Spectre/APS/SpectreX
• Layout validation tools (Virtuoso or Calibre)
• Post-layout Extraction (Virtuoso or Calibre)
• EMX
• Mixed signal simulations in AMS
• Matlab

Possess a track record of innovation. Publications are a plus.