Staff ADC Engineer

Omni Design Technologies, Inc.; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Omni Design Technologies, Inc. is looking for a Senior ADC Architect and Lead in Bengaluru, India, to develop high-performance analog-to-digital converters. The successful candidate will engage with customers, lead transistor-level designs, and ensure product introductions to market.

The ideal candidate should have 5-8 years in mixed-signal IC development, familiarity with standard tools, and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in high-performance analog or mixed-signal IC development.
• Familiarity with high-speed analog-to-digital converter design techniques.
• Experience with evaluating silicon on bench and standard lab equipment.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of high performance transistor level designs.
• Work with customers to understand requirements.
• Supervise layout and silicon evaluation.

Skills

High-performance analog-to-digital converter design

Mixed-signal IC development

Schematic capture

Circuit simulation

Transistor-level circuit design

Tools

Cadence

MATLAB

Job description

Omni Design Technologies is a leading provider of high-performance, ultra-low power IP cores, from 28nm down through advanced FinFET nodes, which enable differentiated system-on-chip (SoC), in applications ranging from 5G, wireline and optical communications, LiDAR, radar, automotive networking, AI, image sensors, and the internet-of-things (IoT).

Our data converter (ADC and DAC) IP cores range from 6-bit to 14-bit resolution and from a few MSPS to more than 100 GSPS sampling rates. Omni Design, founded in 2015 by semiconductor industry veterans, has an excellent track record of innovation and collaboration with customers to enable their success. The company is headquartered in Milpitas, California with additional design centers in Fort Collins-Colorado, Bangalore-India, Hyderabad-India, Dublin-Ireland, Boston-Massachusetts.

Senior ADC Architect and Lead

Hybrid

ADC Staff and development lead focusing on high-performance analog-to-digital converters. The successful candidate in this role will work with customers to understand requirements, and will lead the development of high performance transistor level design starting from initial specification, through design and layout supervision, silicon evaluation and characterization to final product introduction to market.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in high-performance analog or mixed-signal IC development in advanced CMOS processes
• Thorough familiarity with high-speed, high-resolution analog-to-digital (ADC) or digital-to-analog (DAC) data converter design techniques. Experience in designing high performance building block circuits such as bandgap reference, op-amp, comparators, oscillators, DLL, PLL etc.
• Must have a track record of successfully taking designs to production
• Ability to work with customers to define products that address needs
• Must have experience with evaluating silicon on bench and familiarity with standard lab equipment
• Strong intuitive and analytical understanding of transistor-level circuit design including noise and mismatch analysis
• Experience with analog and digital behavioral modeling, and/or synthesis of digital control blocks
• Familiar with Cadence schematic capture, virtuoso, Spectre and/or HSPICE circuit simulation tools
• MATLAB understanding would be preferred but not mandatory
• Familiar with designing circuits for electromigration and ESD compliance in submicron CMOS process
• Must be familiar with layout parasitic extraction tools and layout dependent impairments in advanced CMOS processes
• Must be able to work independently, create and adhere to schedules
• Must possess strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to work with teams spread across geographic locations
• Should be able to seek help proactively as well as share and pass on knowledge