Staff Analog Circuit Design Engineer

Staff Analog Circuit Design Engineer

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or similar applicable degree
• 2-5 years minimum experience in an Analog design role
• Experience with ANSYS HFSS
• Experience with Keysight ADS
• Strong interpersonal, organizational and communication skills
• Team player, persuasive, encouraging, and motivating
• Open minded, quick learner, creative, likes challenges

Responsibilities

• Design analog circuits for probing and amplifying high speed serial data
• Design high speed amplifier subsystems using off the shelf amplifiers
• Design Bias-T networks with wide bandwidth
• Design passive equalizers and filters using discrete components
• Design signal envelope detectors
• Simulate these designs using Keysight ADS and optimize the component selections as well as layout optimizations
• Measure and characterize HW subcomponents for SI performance
• Measure PCB components using VNA and gather s-parameter data
• Simulate and publish s-parameter performance to validate if design meets performance target
• Measure clock jitter with oscilloscope and validate if jitter performance is met
• Measure power nets with oscilloscope to validate if PDN performance meets expectations
• Perform serdes channel simulations using IBIS AMI models on Keysight ADS software
• Validate Serdes performance can meet target BER
• Identify optimal TX EQ and RX EQ settings for maximum performance
• Quantify channel operating margin

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiar with lab equipment including, oscilloscope, Bert, and VNA
• Familiarity with at least one high speed interface such as PCI Express, Ethernet or USB
• Familiarity with channel simulation tools like Seasim or COM
• Familiarity with Matlab usage for Serdes tuning
• Masters degree or higher preferred
• 5-10 years in an Analog Design role