Senior Analog IC Design Engineer

Fox Point Recruitment LLC; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Analog IC Design Engineer to work on high-speed Ethernet products. The successful candidate will collaborate with various teams, define specifications, and oversee designs through production. This role requires advanced education and substantial hands-on experience in analog mixed-signal design.

Benefits

Base salary, bonus, and equity

Flexible time off

401(k) plan

Year-end shutdown

Paid volunteer time

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in analog IC development.
• Hands-on experience with AMS IC development from definition to volume production.
• Strong understanding of high-speed transceivers and circuit blocks.

Responsibilities

• Work with multi-functional teams to deliver high-speed Ethernet products.
• Drive schematic design and collaborate on mask design for implementation.
• Lead designs into volume production and delight customers.

Skills

Analog mixed-signal design

Transistor-level feasibility

PLL and LDO regulators

High-speed DACs and ADCs

Low-power techniques

Education

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

PhD in Electrical Engineering

Job description

About the job Senior Analog IC Design Engineer

Job Title: Analog IC Design Engineer, Senior Staff (T4)

Location: Hybrid (2 days a week in the office)

Job Responsibilities:

• Work with multi-functional teams to deliver high-speed Ethernet products.
• Define specifications based on link budget, behavioral modeling, and transistor-level feasibility.
• Drive schematic design and collaborate on mask design for implementation.
• Work with the team to drive designs into volume production and delight customers.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Master's degree and/or PhD in Electrical Engineering with 3+ years of experience.
• Deep understanding of analog mixed-signal design, especially high-speed transceivers.
• Experience in designing analog mixed-signal circuit blocks including PLL, phase interpolator, low jitter clock distribution, bandgap, biasing circuits, LDO regulators, amplifiers, comparators, high-speed DACs and ADCs, filters.
• Knowledge of mismatch mitigation, linearity, stability, low-power and low-noise techniques.
• Hands-on experience with AMS IC development from definition to volume production, including layout supervision, bench evaluation, correlation, and characterization.

Preferred Experience:

• Tx/Rx equalization techniques and circuits like de-emphasis, CTLE, DFE.
• High-speed digital circuits such as serializers, deserializers, counters, dividers.
• Familiarity with CDR architectures and implementations.
• Design experience in advanced CMOS technologies, including FinFET.
• Lab testing of high-speed transceivers.
• Modeling passive on-chip elements like inductors, T-coils, and transformers.
• Building VerilogA/AMS behavioral models.
• Analyzing and leading characterization data from lab and volume testing.
• Knowledge of ESD requirements.

Compensation:

The starting base pay will be determined based on skills, experience, qualifications, location, and market conditions. The range may be adjusted accordingly.

Additional Benefits:

• Base salary, bonus, and equity.
• Health and financial wellbeing benefits including flexible time off, 401(k), year-end shutdown, floating holidays, and paid volunteer time.