Senior Analog/Mixed-Signal IC Designer – Hybrid

This is a hybrid role that can be performed three days per week from our Ottawa office.

Acacia designs intelligent transceivers using advanced signal processing and photonic integration for the 100G, 400G, 800G and 1.6T+ bit speed fiber optic transmission market deployed in data center, metro, long-haul and ultra-long haul telecommunication networks. You will work with other Acacia mixed-signal engineers to collaborate in order to provide an optimized design that will integrate into the ASIC. In addition, you will have the opportunity to interact with other Acacia groups including digital/DSP design, system design, package design, and module design. Acacia takes pride in providing and fostering a collaborative environment in order to ensure success and personal growth.

Your Impact: As a member of the Mixed Signal Design team, you will be a key member of a small, dynamic IC Design group that develops high speed (25Gb/s), and high accuracy, analog designs for optical communications products. You will architect, design, layout, measure and productize ultra-deep sub-micron-based CMOS products. You will lead efforts for a large block on a complex chip, mentor team members and track deliverables, participate in peer review of complex IC designs and provide solid design methodology from conception to production. You will also collaborate with packaging and hardware design teams to ensure signal and power integrity specifications are met.

You are enthusiastic about developing high speed AMS circuits and best-in-class products that push the boundaries of what is possible. You are detail oriented, high energy and have the drive to get things done and solve difficult problems. You are capable of figuring things out by yourself, but you also participate in our friendly and team-oriented collaboration approach, which means you enjoy learning from your colleagues and letting them learn from you. You are not shy to always point out how we can be more effective as a team, and you are open to similar suggestions by your team members.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BSEE degree with 12+ years of experience, or an MS degree with 8+ years of experience or a PhD with 5+ years of experience.
• Experience in design, simulation and measurement of high speed ICs in at least 3 of the areas listed below:
• High Speed Serial Links utilizing serializers, deserializers, and data converters.
• Modeling requirements for system link simulations.
• High Performance Output Drivers.
• High Performance Phase Locked Loops.
• Efficient clock transmission/propagation.
• Opamps and Programmable Gain Amplifiers.
• Equalization techniques.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with electrical transceiver applications including backplane and cable communications.
• Experience in FinFET and GAA technologies.
• High-frequency layout experience including floorplanning (power/ground, digital/analog signal routing), passive components (inductors, transformers, and transmission lines).
• Experience in design for manufacturability including characterization over PVT, electromigration analysis, self-heating, and IR drop analysis.
• Experience in laboratory validation including ESD practices/methodology and construction of test setups.
• Experience in design software including Cadence (Virtuoso), Spectre/APS/SpectreX, layout validation tools (Virtuoso and Calibre), EMX, mixed-signal simulations in AMS, and Matlab.