Principal Mixed-Signal Design Engineer, Data Converters

The role

This person will lead the architecture and development of wideband, high-performance data converters and associated analog front-ends for advanced mixed-signal SoCs. The role involves technical leadership from architecture and technology tradeoffs through circuit design, integration, and silicon validation.

What you will do

• Architect and design high-speed, wideband ADCs and DACs.
• Lead converter architecture selection and trade studies.
• Design supporting wideband analog front-ends.
• Develop high-performance circuits in advanced FinFET CMOS technologies.
• Own designs from concept and behavioral modeling through transistor-level implementation, layout, verification, and silicon characterization.
• Develop calibration and correction techniques for impairments.
• Define converter specifications and interfaces in collaboration with various teams.
• Drive converter integration into complex mixed-signal SoCs.
• Help establish data-converter design methodologies, IP, simulation infrastructure, and best practices.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to analog and mixed-signal engineers.

Required 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.

Nice to have

• Experience with RF-sampling or direct-RF ADC/DAC architectures.
• Experience developing converters with multi-GHz instantaneous bandwidth.
• Experience with digitally assisted analog design and background/foreground calibration.
• Experience integrating converters into large digital-heavy SoCs.
• Experience with advanced packaging, high-speed I/O, and signal-integrity considerations for wideband mixed-signal devices.
• Experience helping build new methodologies and silicon platforms from the ground up.

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Medical/dental/vision/ coverage
• Life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Many other perks

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. person as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.15 or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license.

About the company

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