Remote Principal Mixed-Signal Data Converters Engineer

Front Door Defense; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

K2 Space is seeking a Principal Mixed-Signal Design Engineer, Data Converters to lead the architecture and development of wideband, high-performance data converters for advanced mixed-signal SoCs. This role combines hands-on circuit design with technical leadership across architecture and silicon validation.

You will own converter specifications, collaborate with systems and RF teams, mentor engineers, and drive integration in complex SoCs while addressing challenges in deep space radiation

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field with significant industry experience in high-performance analog/mixed-signal IC design.
• Deep expertise designing GHz-class and/or multi-GS/s ADCs and DACs.
• Strong understanding of converter architectures such as SAR, pipeline, time-interleaved, flash/folding, current-steering DACs, and hybrid architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to translate system requirements into converter architectures and circuit-level specifications.
• Strong experience with wideband analog/RF signal paths, sampling circuits, clocking, references, and low-noise/high-linearity circuit design.
• Experience designing high-performance analog circuits in FinFET technologies.
• Strong understanding of converter impairments, including jitter, noise, distortion, mismatch, timing skew, interleaving errors, and calibration.
• Experience taking complex analog/mixed-signal ICs from architecture through tapeout and silicon bring-up.
• Deep proficiency with industry-standard analog/mixed-signal design, simulation, and verification tools.

Responsibilities

• Architect and design high-speed, wideband ADCs and DACs targeting demanding RF and mixed-signal applications.
• Lead converter architecture selection and trade studies, balancing bandwidth, sampling rate, resolution/ENOB, linearity, power, area, and implementation risk.
• Design supporting wideband analog front-ends, including ADC input networks, track-and-hold/sampling circuits, DAC output stages, references, biasing, clocking, and calibration circuitry.
• Develop high-performance circuits in advanced FinFET CMOS technologies and address the unique analog design challenges associated with deeply scaled nodes.
• Own designs from concept and behavioral modeling through transistor-level implementation, layout, verification, and silicon characterization.
• Develop calibration and correction techniques for impairments and work closely with DSP/systems engineers on mixed-signal algorithms.
• Define converter specifications and interfaces in collaboration with systems, RF, digital, package, and verification teams.
• Drive converter integration into complex mixed-signal SoCs, including power, clocking, signal integrity, and physical implementation considerations.
• Help establish data-converter design methodologies, IP, simulation infrastructure, and best practices from the ground up.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to analog and mixed-signal engineers.

Skills

GHz-class ADCs/DACs

Converter architectures

Wideband analog/RF paths

Mixed-signal IC design leadership

Tapeout and silicon bring-up

Mentorship

Education

MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Cadence

Synopsys

SPICE simulators

Job description

K2 Space is seeking a Principal Mixed-Signal Design Engineer, Data Converters to lead the architecture and development of wideband, high-performance data converters for advanced mixed-signal SoCs. This role combines hands-on circuit design with technical leadership across architecture and silicon validation.

You will own converter specifications, collaborate with systems and RF teams, mentor engineers, and drive integration in complex SoCs while addressing challenges in deep space radiation