Analog Mixed Signal Circuit Design

Job Title: Principal/Sr Principal Circuit Designer Analog / SERDES (Automotive Transceivers)

Location: This position is located in San Jose CA. This is a hybrid role with 3 days in office and 2 days work from home. This role is NOT open to 100% remote.

Role Summary:

Seeking a Principal or Senior Principal Circuit Designer to design and deliver highspeed highlinearity analog and SERDES circuit blocks that form the Analog Front End (AFE) of automotive transceivers.

This is a handson individual contributor role requiring deep expertise in TX RX and clocking circuit design for highspeed PHYs. The role focuses on blocklevel ownership from specification and transistorlevel design through silicon validation and production support. At the Senior Principal level the role also provides technical leadership across projects influencing architecture and mentoring other designers.

Job Responsibility:

Analog / SERDES Circuit Design

Architect design and simulate analog circuit blocks that comprise the AFE including:

o Transmit (TX) circuits: line drivers predrivers output stages

o Receive (RX) circuits: frontend amplifiers CTLE PGA slicers

o Clocking circuits: PLLs DLLs clock distribution jitter filtering

Translate system and PHYlevel requirements into robust blocklevel specifications.

Optimize designs for linearity noise jitter power area and robustness.

Perform detailed transistorlevel simulations across PVT corners and full automotive temperature ranges.

Silicon BringUp Debug & Production Support

Support silicon bringup characterization and validation of analog/SERDES blocks.

Correlate simulation results with silicon measurements and drive design improvements.

Collaborate with layout digital DSP systems test and product engineering teams.

Drive resolution of performance yield and reliability issues through rootcause analysis.

Technical Leadership (Principal / Sr Principal Scope)

Serve as blocklevel technical owner for critical analog/SERDES functions.

Participate in and lead technical design reviews.

Influence AFE and PHY architecture decisions through deep technical expertise.

Mentor senior and midlevel designers and contribute to design best practices.

Job Qualification:

Education

MSEE or PhD in Electrical Engineering or equivalent (strongly preferred).

Experience

1215 years of experience in analog or mixedsignal IC design (Principal).

1520 years of experience for Senior Principal level.

Proven handson experience designing highspeed SERDES or wireline analog circuits.

Demonstrated success delivering TX RX and clocking circuits to production silicon.

Extensive experience with circuit design simulation and debug at the transistor level.

Examples of Core Technical Expertise

Highspeed TX and RX circuit design

Linearity distortion and noise analysis

Jitter generation tolerance and clock integrity

PLL / DLL and clocking architectures

PVT variation and automotive robustness

Advanced CMOS processes for highspeed analog

Highly Desired Experience

Direct experience with one or more of the following:

• 10GBASET

• 10GBASET1 (Automotive Ethernet)

• TDDbased transceivers

• Familiarity with automotive semiconductor requirements (AECQ100 temperature EMI/EMC).

• Experience supporting automotive production ramp and customer qualification.

• Exposure to ISO 26262 / functional safety concepts is a plus.

The base salary range for this position is as mentioned below per year. We also provide competitive benefits incentive compensation and/or equity for certain roles.
Company benefits include health. dental and vision insurance. 401(k) and paid leave. Please note that the base salary range (OR hourly rate) is a guideline and individual total compensation may vary based on a number of factors such as qualifications skill level work location and other business and organizational needs. This base pay range is specific to California and is not applicable to other locations. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range as of the date of this posting is:

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