Senior Data Converter IC Design Lead — FinFET (Remote)

Encore Semi Llc; Hillsboro (OR); Remote; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Encore Semi, Inc. in Hillsboro, OR is seeking a Senior/Lead Data Converter IC Design Engineer (FinFET) to architect and tape out high‑speed ADC/DAC cells across 7nm down to 3nm for HPC, AI and communications hardware, owning the full design cycle from system architecture to post‑silicon validation.

Candidates have MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering and 10+ years of hands‑on data converter design with silicon tape‑outs; FinFET expertise in 3/5/7nm; Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre/PrimeSim and Calibre

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years of hands-on high-speed data converter design and successful silicon tape-outs.
• FinFET expertise in 3nm/5nm/7nm nodes.
• Proficiency with Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre/PrimeSim, and Calibre PEX/Quantus.

Responsibilities

• Architect and design multi-GS/s ADC/DAC architectures (Time-Interleaved SAR, Pipeline, Flash, or RF-DACs).
• Deliver transistor-level circuits (track-and-hold, comparators, low-jitter clock paths, bias networks) in 7nm–3nm FinFET processes.
• Implement background/foreground digital calibration for offset, gain, timing skew, and linearity.
• Supervise layout to mitigate layout-dependent effects (LDE), parasitics, electromigration, and self-heating.
• Lead post-silicon lab bring-up, bench testing, and model-to-hardware correlation.

Skills

Data converter design

High-speed circuit design

FinFET process design

Education

MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Cadence Virtuoso

Spectre/PrimeSim

Calibre PEX/Quantus

Job description

Encore Semi, Inc. in Hillsboro, OR is seeking a Senior/Lead Data Converter IC Design Engineer (FinFET) to architect and tape out high‑speed ADC/DAC cells across 7nm down to 3nm for HPC, AI and communications hardware, owning the full design cycle from system architecture to post‑silicon validation.

Candidates have MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering and 10+ years of hands‑on data converter design with silicon tape‑outs; FinFET expertise in 3/5/7nm; Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre/PrimeSim and Calibre