Location: Reading, Berkshire (Hybrid)
Department: R&D
Employment Type: Full-time
Minimum Experience: Mid-level
Challenges drive us, and innovation is our calling. At Kandou, we are a team of passionate and accomplished 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, critical to the evolution of the electronics sector. Our continuous development aims to meet the demands of today’s customers and those of tomorrow. If you enjoy being part of a high-tech scale-up and are motivated by pushing your limits and challenging the status quo, we have an exciting opportunity for you.
Job Opportunity: 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.
- Design and verify analog circuits, adhering to prescribed design and documentation flows to meet architectural specifications.
- Support and interact with customers regarding requirements, design specifications, performance results, and product delivery if necessary.
- Assist with analog IP and chip-level integration.
- Collaborate with architects, technical leads, analog and digital design teams, layout, integration, verification, silicon validation, and quality teams as needed.
Competencies
- Proficient in the design of high-speed analog SERDES circuits, including DFT, DFM, and ESD protection, with a deep understanding of transistor and wireline communications fundamentals.
- Knowledgeable about layout approaches and design techniques used for high-speed and high-precision circuits.
- Advanced user of EDA tools for the design and verification of analog circuits, preferably within the Cadence Virtuoso environment, including 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-oriented mindset.
- Able to manage and complete designs on schedule using defined design process flows, while reporting design status to the internal management team.
Requirements
- A Master’s or Ph.D. degree in Electronics or a related field.
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in analog design and layout of key circuits in multi-gigabit serial data-link transceivers or RF multi-tone communications, such as equalizers, clock generators, clock and data recovery circuits, TISAR ADCs, serializers, and output drivers.
- Expertise in design and layout of high-speed circuits, such as oscillators, phase-locked loops, delay-locked loops, and essential building blocks like biasing, amplifiers, buffers, regulators, filters, ADCs, DACs, etc.
- 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 sounds like the role you've been looking for and you want to join a growing company with an exciting future, we encourage you to apply online using the form below. Please note that only applications matching the job profile will be considered.
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