High Speed IO Analog Mixed Signal Design Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•San Jose, CA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD. At AMD, we believe technology can change lives for the better. It can heal us, entertain us, and make us more connected, productive, and understanding of the world around us. And we’re looking for talent who feel the same: people who want to leave the planet better than they found it, those who don’t shy away from humanity’s challenges but are determined to help solve them. AMD is powering the next generation of supercomputing, high-performance computing, cloud, and AI. Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or creating go-to-market plans, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward. THE ROLE: Be part of AMD’s analog/mixed signal IP design team responsible for the design and development of next generation IOs, high speed memory (LPDDRx, gDDRx, HBMx) and die-to-die Gbps proprietary PHY IP solutions. Establishes and maintains AMD’s technological leadership position in analog circuit architecture and design with a proven track record for problem solving and innovation.

Requirements

The ideal candidate has excellent experience in technical settings.
You also have excellent communication, writing, and presentation skills.
MS or PhD in Electrical, Computer Engineering or related equivalent

Nice To Haves

Hand-on design experience in multi-Gbps serial (PCIE, USB, …), parallel high BW memory interface PHY/IOs (DDR4/DDR5, HBM2/HBM3, gDDR5/gDDR6, …) and chip-to-chip links PHY IPs
Strong fundamentals and knowledge of mixed signal circuit architecture and design techniques for receiver/transmitter and PLL/DLL/clocking. In-depth knowledge of analog mixed-signal concepts like mismatch mitigation, linearity, stability, low-power and low-noise techniques
Solid experience of designing and architecting analog mixed-signal circuit blocks including DLLs, phase interpolator, low jitter clock distribution, bandgap, biasing circuits, LDO regulators, amplifiers, comparators. Experience in mixed signal design circuit blocks such as digital/analog DLLs, duty cycle corrector, clock and data recovery, clock mixer, …
Solid Understanding of high-speed IO signaling topologies and architectures including system-silicon co-design/co-optimizations for best in class PPA.
Solid understanding of high speed IO link budget analysis and jitter/SNR metrics and design trades.
Experience in low power design techniques for high speed/custom digital circuit (e.g. CMOS/CML high speed design for counters, dividers, …) design and analysis including transistor level timing sign-off
Solid understanding of power, area and performance trade-offs in mixed signal IP design
Design Experience in FinFet advanced CMOS process nodes 16nm/7nm/3nm and below coupled with a solid understanding of transistor device performance and fundamentals
Proficient in AMS design flows, tools, and methodologies. Familiar with Cadence schematic capture, virtuoso, Spectre and/or HSPICE circuit simulation tools
Work with project-manager, system architects, IC designers and physical designers to guarantee quality/timely deliverables meeting project’s schedule and technical requirements
Analytical thinking, inventive, and Quality-oriented mindset. Strong and effective technical and management communication at the peer and upward management levels.
Track record of successfully taking AMS designs to production

Responsibilities

High Speed IO/SerDes AMS circuit architecture and design
Work and collaborate with System/Platform & SOC architects to translate system level specs to AMS blocks/circuit level specifications.
Author AMS blocks circuit and architecture technical specifications, AMS pre-silicon verification, AMS post-silicon characterization/validation test plans.