High-Speed Analog & Mixed-Signal PHY Design Engineer

Qualcomm Incorporated; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 183,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego is seeking an analog/mixed-signal circuit designer to deliver SerDes PHY designs for next-generation SoCs.

You will lead transistor-level design and supervise layouts for high-speed, low-power PHY blocks, with emphasis on >32Gbps transceiver work. The role requires strong experience in analog/mixed-signal IC design, and collaboration across architecture, verification, and layout teams in 7nm CMOS processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering with 2+ years of analog or mixed-signal IC design experience.
• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering with 2+ years of ASIC design/verification experience.
• PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field is preferred.
• 2+ years of experience using design tools such as CADENCE, SPICE, MATLAB, or Verilog/VHDL.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to architecture and transistor-level circuit designs for SerDes PHY blocks.
• Oversee block-level layout collaboration with layout teams.
• Define and run simulations to evaluate power, performance, and reliability.
• Document results and assist junior team members in debugging.
• Collaborate with internal and external users to align on goals.
• Maintain broad technical understanding to ensure integration with other components.
• Write detailed design descriptions for users and customers.

Skills

Analog design

Circuit design

Transistor-level design

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering

Master's in Electrical Engineering

PhD in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Cadence

SPICE

MATLAB

Verilog/VHDL

Job description

## Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

## Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Analog Mixed Signal Design

General Summary:

Qualcomm's Mixed-Signal PHY design team is actively looking for analog and mixed-signal circuit designer to work on SerDes PHY designs. This designer will be involved in delivering next-generation PHY designs for SoCs and will be part of a growing team involved in architecture analysis in leading-edge CMOS process technology nodes at 7nm and beyond. Design goals also include low-power analog designs to address Qualcomm's wireline interface need.

Job Description

The primary responsibility of this position entails working within a team to deliver analog and mixed-signal transistor level circuit designs along with supervising physical layouts of the high speed, low-power PHY SerDes blocks. Experience with >32Gbps transceiver or clocking design is highly desired

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering with 2+ years of experience with analog or mixed-signal integrated circuit design in nanometer planar CMOS or FinFET and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, or related work experience.
• PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 2+ years of experience using one or more design tools (e.g., CADENCE, SPICE, MATLAB, and/or Verilog/VHDL).

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 2+ years of experience in analog/mixed-signal integrated CMOS circuit design for a specific area (e.g., VCO, PLL, and DLL design, Audio CODEC and Class D Audio amplifier design, Delta-Sigma, SAR ADCs, Current-Steering DACs, high-speed DDR PHYs, high-speed SERDES).

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Uses appropriate tools or databases to contribute to architecture and circuit designs for one or more blocks; participates in design reviews.
• Works with layout teams to oversee block-level layout of one or more blocks.
• Defines and runs own simulations and analyses (e.g., power, performance) on designs; documents and utilizes results to improve and verify designs.
• Programs and runs tests to identify bugs in own work and helps more junior team members with the same; debugs most issues and escalates highly complex issues.
• Consults with internal or external users as directed to assist with implementation and achieve goal alignment.
• Maintains understanding of one's technical domain and builds understanding of other domains to ensure integration with different components.
• Writes detailed technical documentation and design descriptions to guide users and/or customers.
• Collaborates with team members to generate ideas.

Level of Responsibility:

• Working under some supervision.
• Taking responsibility for own work and making decisions with limited impact; impact of decisions is readily apparent; errors made typically only impact timeline (i.e., require additional time to correct).
• Using verbal and written communication skills to convey basic, routine factual information about day-to-day activities to others who are fully knowledgeable in the subject area.
• Working within prescribed budget and resources.
• Completing most tasks with multiple steps which can be performed in various orders; some planning and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively; mistakes may result in some rework.
• Exercising creativity to draft original documents, imagery, or work products within established guidelines.
• Using deductive problem solving to solve moderately complex problems; most problems have defined processes of diagnosis/detection; some limited data analysis may be required.
• May be solicited during strategic planning period.

The responsibilities of this role do not include:

• Providing supervision/guidance to others.
• Influence over key organizational decisions.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits :

$121,800.00 - $182,600.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer - and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link .

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