Post Doctoral Researcher, Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Chronicle Of Higher Education, Inc.; Newark (DE); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Delaware seeks a Post-Doctoral Researcher to work with Prof. Yuping Zeng. This role focuses on analog circuit design for neuromorphic computing and involves leading circuit design, implementation, and characterization using tools like Cadence and ADS.

Qualified candidates should hold a PhD and have analog circuit design experience. The position encourages collaboration with graduate students and exploration in high-frequency and low-power device technologies.

Qualifications

• PhD required at the time of hire.
• 1-year analog circuit design experience preferred.
• Know how to design circuit using Cadence or LT-Spice.
• Know how to perform circuit analysis and characterization.

Responsibilities

• Design analog circuits with emerging devices.
• Characterize and optimize circuit performance.
• Guide graduate students in research projects.

Skills

Analog circuit design

Device fabrication

Circuit optimization

RF circuit design

Python

Education

PhD in relevant field

Tools

Cadence

LT-Spice

ADS

Verilog-A

Job description

Context of Job:

As a Post-Doctoral Researcher, you will support Prof. Yuping Zeng with the frontier of analog circuit design, implementation and characterization, preferably for neuromorphic computing with emerging devices.

Major Responsibilities:

• Plays a key role in the design of analog circuit with emerging devices developed in the group;
• Deep understanding of the device physics and the know-how of circuit design;
• Device fabrication, characterization, model extraction and apply device model in the circuit design;
• Circuit design optimization;
• Using Cadence for circuit design and ADS for RF circuit design;
• Circuit implementation and characterization;
• Plays a key role in helping and guiding graduate students.

You can select any of the following research areas that you feel competent on:

• Devices: (1) High-frequency electronic devices: heterojunction bipolar transistors, high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs); (2) Low-power devices: novel transistors (tunneling field-effect transistors, and Non-silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors, thin film transistors); (3) Light-emitting devices and high-speed detectors
• Circuits: Analog circuits for Neuromorphic computing

Qualifications:

• PhD required at the time of hire
• 1-year analog circuit design experience preferred
• Know how to design circuit using one or more of the software listed (Cadence; Fluent use of LT-Spice, Verilog-A, Python, ADS, ICCAP, etc.)
• Know how to perform circuit analysis and characterization