Principal SerDes Design Engineer

Celero Communications • San Jose, CA

13h

About The Position

We are looking for a SerDes Lead Designer to deliver high-speed interconnect technology for next-generation AI. The role involves architecting and designing SerDes for next-generation transceivers, from system modeling and circuit design through lab validation, silicon correlation, and system-level performance optimization.

Requirements

• Master’s degree and/or PhD in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in SerDes design.
• Proven record of taking high-speed SerDes designs through tape-out and volume production.
• Experience with lab bring-up, characterization, and debugging of designs that reach production.
• Extensive experience with advanced node technologies, including 16nm/12nm, 7nm, 5nm, 3nm, or 2nm processes.
• Prior cross-functional experience delivering IP and ensuring seamless integration in SoCs.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture, specifications, and circuit topologies for next-generation SerDes.
• Oversee development of system-level behavioral models using tools such as MATLAB, SystemVerilog, and Verilog-A to analyze link budgets, equalization strategies, and jitter budgets.
• Design high-performance analog and mixed-signal circuits in advanced process technologies.
• Develop and oversee critical blocks, including RX/TX equalization (CTLE, DFE), high-speed PLLs, phase interpolators, DLLs, and TDCs.
• Implement digitally assisted analog circuits, background calibration, and adaptive loops to improve power, performance, and area.
• Oversee physical layout to minimize parasitics, device stress, electromigration, and process-variation impacts.
• Oversee signal-integrity and power-integrity analysis to meet system-defined targets.
• Lead lab validation, debugging, and characterization of SerDes IPs.
• Correlate silicon measurements with simulated data and lead performance optimization in the system environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal