Location:
Reading, Berkshire (Hybrid)
Department:
Research and Development
Employment Type:
Full-time
Experience Level:
Mid-level
About Us:
Challenges drive us, and innovation is our calling. At Kandou, we are a team of passionate professionals making a significant impact in the semiconductor industry. We are an innovative leader in high-speed and energy-efficient chip-to-chip link solutions, which are essential for the evolution of the electronics sector. Our continuous development efforts aim to meet not only the needs of today’s customers but also those of tomorrow. If you thrive in a high-tech scale-up environment and are motivated by pushing boundaries and challenging the status quo, we have an opportunity for you.
Position: Analog Design Engineer
We are actively seeking an Analog Design Engineer based in the UK (Reading).
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, model, and verify custom analog designs for high-speed SERDES transceivers in advanced technology nodes.
- Conduct design and verification of analog circuits while adhering to prescribed design and documentation workflows, ensuring alignment with architectural specifications.
- Collaborate with customers to discuss requirements, design specifications, performance results, and product delivery when necessary.
- Support analog IP and chip-level integration.
- Work with architects, technical leads, and teams from analog and digital design, layout, integration, verification, silicon validation, and quality as required.
Competencies:
- Proficient in designing high-speed analog SERDES circuits, including DFT, DFM, and ESD protection, with a solid understanding of transistor and wireline communications fundamentals.
- Familiarity with layout strategies and design techniques for high-speed and high-precision circuits.
- Advanced user of EDA tools for analog circuit design and verification, preferably using the Cadence Virtuoso environment, including skills in simulation, parasitic extraction, electromagnetic modeling, EM/IR and reliability analysis, as well as LVS and DRC.
- Self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership and responsibility, excellent verbal and written communication skills, and a team player.
- Able to manage and complete designs within the scheduled timeframe using defined design process flows and report design status to the internal management team.
Requirements:
- A Master's or Ph.D. degree in Electronics or related fields.
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in analog design and layout for key circuits in multi-gigabit serial data-link transceivers or RF multi-tone communications, including equalizers, clock generators, clock and data recovery circuits, TISAR ADCs, serializers, and output drivers.
- Expertise in designing and laying out high-speed circuits such as oscillators, phase-locked loops, delay-locked loops, and other fundamental building blocks like biasing, amplifiers, buffers, regulators, filters, ADCs, and DACs.
- Experience with modern semiconductor process technologies, preferably in FinFET technology nodes.
- Experience using Ocean, MDL, or equivalent tools to automate analog design verification is highly desirable.
If this role aligns with your aspirations and you want to be part of a dynamic company with an exciting future, we would love to hear from you. Apply online using the form below. Please note that only applications matching the job profile will be considered.
Visit us at www.kandou.ai and connect with us on LinkedIn.