Analog Circuit Design Engineer

Altera•San Jose, CA

1d•$149,100 - $215,925•Onsite

About The Position

As a Sr. Mixed Signal Design Engineer, you will be part of a team designing various mixed-signal circuit designs on Intel FPGAs. This includes voltage regulators, bandgaps and bias circuits, Analog to digital converter (ADC), Delay locked loops (DLLs), high speed clock distribution and other clocking circuits, and high speed transmitters and receivers on advanced processes nodes. You will have the opportunity to work on a diverse set of blocks and tasks in all phases of the design. The ideal candidate will be an independent self-starter who can own/design a custom analog or digital IP. An important part of this role is delivering all aspects of the design and collateral, including timing and reliability collateral. You should be a motivated team-player who is able to work with cross-functional and cross-geo teams to understand, articulate and solve problems.

Requirements

BSEE/MSEE/PhD in Electrical Engineering or equivalent with a minimum of 10 years of experience in analog/mixed signal, high speed, or high voltage IO designs.
10+ years of experience in direct design experience with analog and mixed signal circuits like amplifiers, comparators, regulators, ADC, high speed transmitters and receivers (SerDes, PAM-4, PCIe, DDR, etc.).
Exposure to analog/mixed signal circuit design and layout flow and running post-layout simulations.
Solid understanding of analog design trade-offs and design for process variation and reliability in modern CMOS technologies.
Proficient in circuit design tools like Virtuoso, Spice, StarRC, Totem etc.
Understanding of Verilog, static timing analysis, UPF and related aspects of mixed signal design.

Nice To Haves

Experience with high-speed receivers.

Responsibilities

Technical path-finding, innovation, micro-architecture and design of analog/mixed-signal circuits including regulators and bandgaps to meet architectural specifications in advanced process nodes.
Contribute to architectural trade-off studies and design methodology improvements.
Design, develop and deliver circuit building block schematic, perform pre layout and post layout design optimization to meet design specification across PVT, process variation sensitivity analysis, aging, EOS, RV checks for design reliability.
Work with custom layout team to define plan (floorplan, routing, matching, metal grid etc) to meet circuit performance.
Collateral generation like circuit Integration spec, BMOD, timing model, power model, ICCT, IBIS, alpha numbers.
Own specifications and design verification plans covering functionality, performance and reliability meeting high volume productization requirement.
Collaborate with logic designer, logic verification designer, structural physical design engineers, integration engineers, signal integrity and power deliver engineer to define clear collateral handoff requirements to ensure efficient IP integration.
Perform post silicon data analysis and debug and make necessary design enhancement to meet design specification.
Conduct design reviews; actively contribute to design reviews.
Represent the team on related IP in cross-functional meetings and co-ordination of deliverables.
Work with external IP vendors as point of contact for analog designs.