Description
This is a hybrid role that can be performed three days per week from our Ottawa office.
Meet the Team Acacia designs intelligent transceivers using advanced signal processing and photonic integration for the 100G, 400G, 800G and 1.6T+ bit speed fiber optic transmission market deployed in data center, metro, long-haul and ultra-long haul telecommunication networks.
Your Impact As a member of the Mixed Signal Design team, you will be a key member of a small, dynamic IC Design group that develops high speed (>25Gb/s), and high accuracy, analog designs for optical communications products.
Responsibilities:
- Architect, design, layout, measure and productize ultra-deep sub-micron-based CMOS products.
- Lead efforts for a large block on a complex chip, mentor team members and track deliverables, participate in peer review of complex IC designs and provide solid design methodology from conception to production.
- Collaborate with packaging and hardware design team to ensure signal and power integrity specifications are met.
Requirements:
- BSEE degree with 12+ years of experience, or an MS degree with 8+ years of experience or a PhD with 5+ years of experience.
- Experience in design, simulation and measurement of high speed ICs in at least 3 of the areas listed below:
+ High Speed Serial Links utilizing serializers, deserializers, and data convertors. + Modeling requirements for system link simulations + High Performance Output Drivers + High Performance Phase Locked Loops + Efficient clock transmission/propagation. + Opamps and Programmable Gain Amplifiers. + Equalization techniques.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with electrical transceiver applications including backplane and cable communications.
- Experience in FinFET and GAA technologies.
- High-frequency layout experience including floorplaning (power/ground, digital/analog signal routing), passives components (inductors, transformers, and transmission-lins).
- Experience in design for manufacturability including characterization over PVT, electromigration analysis,self-heating, and IR drop analysis.
- Experience in laboratory validation including ESD practices/methodology and construction of test setups.
- Experience in design software including Cadence (Virtuoso), Specture/APS/SpectreX, layout validation tools (Virtuoso and Calibre), EMX, mixed-signal simulations in AMS, and Matlab.
Benefits:
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Paid time away (vacation, holidays, sick time)
- Opportunities for professional growth and development