Hybrid AMS Architect for Photonics & High-Speed Analog ICs

Lightmatter, Inc.; Boston, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 149,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement matching

Life Insurance

Time Off

Paid Family Leave

Disability Insurance

Training & Development

Hybrid workplace

Equity grants

Job summary

Lightmatter is hiring an Analog and Mixed-Signal (AMS) Architect to partner with internal engineering teams to deliver groundbreaking products to market. You will develop innovative analog architecture solutions and create detailed technical documents for the engineering group.

You will collaborate across digital, analog, photonics, and software teams, presenting at technical conferences and helping shape Lightmatter's high-performance computing roadmap.

Qualifications

• PhD in electrical engineering, physics, applied physics, or a discipline related to analog design.
• Experience in designing and testing optical front-end receivers and transmitters (TIAs, drivers), CTLE, DFE, ADC, DAC, oscillators in advanced CMOS.
• Power user of Cadence Virtuoso, Cadence Spectre, Verilog-A, IBIS-AMI simulators.
• Ability and desire to collaborate in a cross-disciplinary team.
• Excellent written and communication skills.
• Demonstrated strong problem solving skills specifically pertaining to problems that do not have obvious solutions.

Responsibilities

• Propose innovative solutions high-speed (50G and beyond) AMS circuit blocks custom to optical transceivers, such as drivers, TIAs, equalizers, ADC/DACs, PLLs, CDRs.
• Work closely with the analog engineering design team to performance, power, and area estimates of the analog devices within Passage.
• Actively collaborate with the photonics engineering team to provide a high-bandwidth photonic interconnect solution.
• Author, review, and validate architectural specifications.

Skills

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Strong written & verbal communication

Analytical problem solving

Education

PhD in electrical engineering or related field

Tools

Cadence Virtuoso

Cadence Spectre

Verilog-A

IBIS-AMI simulators

Job description

Lightmatter is hiring an Analog and Mixed-Signal (AMS) Architect to partner with internal engineering teams to deliver groundbreaking products to market. You will develop innovative analog architecture solutions and create detailed technical documents for the engineering group.

You will collaborate across digital, analog, photonics, and software teams, presenting at technical conferences and helping shape Lightmatter's high-performance computing roadmap.