Senior Mixed-Signal IC Designer—Data Converters (ADC/DAC)

K2Spacecorporation; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary + equity

Comprehensive benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

K2 Space is seeking a Principal Mixed-Signal Design Engineer to lead the architecture and development of wideband, high-performance data converters for advanced mixed-signal SoCs. This hands-on leadership role spans from architecture decisions to transistor-level design, layout, verification, and silicon validation, with mentorship and cross-functional collaboration.

The candidate will drive calibration techniques, define specifications, and integrate converters into complex SoCs, working with

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

Analog/mixed-signal design

SAR architectures

Pipelined architectures

Clocking and references

Calibration techniques

Transistor-level design

Simulation/verification tools

Education

MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Cadence

SPICE

MATLAB

Simulation tools

Job description

K2 Space is seeking a Principal Mixed-Signal Design Engineer to lead the architecture and development of wideband, high-performance data converters for advanced mixed-signal SoCs. This hands-on leadership role spans from architecture decisions to transistor-level design, layout, verification, and silicon validation, with mentorship and cross-functional collaboration.

The candidate will drive calibration techniques, define specifications, and integrate converters into complex SoCs, working with