Description
This is a hybrid role that can be performed three days per week from our Ottawa office.
As a Principal 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:
- 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.
- Develop high speed AMS circuits and best-in-class products that push the boundaries of what is possible.
- Participate in our friendly and team-oriented collaboration approach, which means you enjoy learning from your colleagues and letting them learn from you.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelors + 15 years of related experience, or Masters + 10 years of related experience, or PhD + 7 years of related experience.
- 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.
- Direct experience as a leader of a team working on high performance circuits.
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