Principal Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC Design Engineer

The role

You will own ASIC design blocks and contribute to the tape-out, delivery, and validation of ASIC dies. You will work on co-integrated electronic and photonic modules for wireless optical communication systems.

What you will do

• Own and deliver custom ASIC blocks for co-integration with large-scale photonic integrated circuits.
• Contribute to chip architecture, system-level optimization, and product strategy.
• Perform hands-on contributions to Analog/Mixed-Signal (AMS) ASIC design, verification, and layout.
• Contribute to the tape-out, delivery, and validation of ASIC dies.

Required qualifications

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 10 or more years of relevant industry experience with demonstrated achievements in analog/mixed-signal circuit design and implementation in modern CMOS technologies.
• Deep design expertise in high-precision circuits such as analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, bandgap references, voltage regulators, amplifiers, and other supporting circuitry.
• Tapeout experience in high voltage Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) technology including successful silicon bring-up and characterization.
• Extensive background in the integration and co-simulation of analog and digital circuits in the context of mixed-signal design and verification.
• Hands-on experience contributing to multiple ASIC tape-outs at commercial foundries including chip top-level ownership.
• Hands-on experience with Design Rule Checks (DRC), Layout Versus Schematic (LVS), Power Integrity (PI), and Signal Integrity (SI) verification.

Nice to have

• Expertise in planning and executing the verification of large Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) that incorporate complex digital logic and numerous custom-designed blocks.
• Fluency in hardware description languages, such as Register-Transfer Level (RTL) code, and RTL-to-GDS design flows using industry-standard EDA tools.
• Experience with versioning tools such as SOS and Git.
• Proficiency with commercial layout verification software (Calibre or equivalent).
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to work effectively with senior external partners.
• A track record of advancing a product from the prototype phase to the final production stage.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance can be provided.
• equity
• benefits

About the company

Taara is on a mission to connect billions of people who lack abundant and affordable internet by pioneering high-throughput, long-range free-space optical communication (FSOC). It was born at X, Google's Moonshot Factory.