Principal Mixed-Signal Design Engineer, Data Converters

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design and develop high-speed, wideband ADCs and DACs for challenging RF and mixed-signal applications.

• Lead the selection of converter architectures and conduct trade studies that balance bandwidth, sampling rate, resolution/ENOB, linearity, power, area, and implementation risk.

• Create wideband analog front-ends, which include ADC input networks, track-and-hold/sampling circuits, DAC output stages, references, biasing, clocking, and calibration circuitry.

• Develop high-performance circuits using advanced FinFET CMOS technologies.

• Manage designs from initial concept and behavioral modeling to transistor-level implementation, layout, verification, and silicon characterization.

• Create calibration and correction techniques while collaborating with DSP/systems engineers on mixed-signal algorithms.

• Define converter specifications and establish interfaces with systems, RF, digital, package, and verification teams.

• Oversee the integration of converters into complex mixed-signal SoCs, taking into account power, clocking, signal integrity, and physical implementation aspects.

• Establish methodologies for data-converter design, IP, simulation infrastructure, and best practices.

• Offer technical leadership and mentorship to engineers specializing in analog and mixed-signal design.

⛳️ Requirements

• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering or a related field, accompanied by substantial industry experience in high-performance analog/mixed-signal IC design.

• Extensive expertise in designing GHz-class and/or multi-GS/s ADCs and DACs.

• Strong grasp of SAR, pipeline, time-interleaved, flash/folding, current-steering DAC, and hybrid converter architectures.

• Capability to translate system requirements into converter architectures and circuit-level specifications.

• Significant experience with wideband analog/RF signal paths, sampling circuits, clocking, references, and low-noise/high-linearity circuit design.

• Familiarity with designing high-performance analog circuits in FinFET technologies.

• Solid understanding of converter impairments, which include jitter, noise, distortion, mismatch, timing skew, interleaving errors, and calibration.

• Proven experience in guiding complex analog/mixed-signal ICs from architecture through tapeout and silicon bring-up.

• Deep proficiency with standard industry tools for analog/mixed-signal design, simulation, and verification.

• Must qualify as a U.S. person as defined by ITAR or be eligible for a federally issued export control license.

🏝️ Benefits

• Reasonable accommodations available during the employment or interview application process.

• Equal opportunity employment.