# Mixed Signal Design Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Ottawa
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $162,300.00 to $234,800.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

This is a hybrid role that can be performed three days per week from our Ottawa office.

Acacia, a part of Cisco, designs intelligent transceivers using advanced signal processing and photonic integration for high-speed fibre optic transmission markets. You will work with other Acacia mixed-signal engineers to collaborate on an optimised design that integrates into the ASIC. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to interact with other Acacia groups, including digital/DSP design, system design, package design, and module design.

As a senior member of the Mixed Signal Design team, you will be a key member of a small, dynamic IC Design group that develops high-speed, high-accuracy analog designs for optical communications products. You will architect, design, layout, measure, and productize ultra-deep sub-micron-based CMOS products.

Responsibilities:

- Lead efforts for a large block on a complex chip, mentor team members, 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 teams to ensure signal and power integrity specifications are met.

- Develop high-speed AMS circuits and best-in-class products that push the boundaries of what is possible.

- Work in a team-oriented collaboration approach, enjoying learning from colleagues and letting them learn from you.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree + 12 years of related experience, or Master's degree + 8 years of related experience, or PhD + 5 years of related experience.

- Prior experience in the design, simulation, and measurement of high-speed ICs across at least three of the following areas: SerDes/serial links, output drivers, Phase Locked Loops (PLLs), clock distribution, Opamps/PGAs, or 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 floorplanning, power/ground, digital/analog signal routing, passives components.

- 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), Spectre/APS/SpectreX, layout validation tools (Virtuoso and Calibre), EMX, mixed-signal simulations in AMS, and Matlab.

## Skills

### Required
- mixed-signal design
- high-speed IC design
- CMOS design
- ASIC design
- AMS circuits

### Nice to have
- FinFET technology
- GAA technology
- high-frequency layout
- design for manufacturability
- laboratory validation

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