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Senior Analog Design Engineer

Alphawave Semi3 days ago
Toronto, Ontario
Senior Level
full_time

Top Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package
Short-term incentive program
Retirement & Saving Programs

About the role

The Opportunity We're looking for the Wavemakers of tomorrow.

Alphawave Semi enables tomorrow’s future by accelerating the critical data communication at the heart of our digital world – from seamless video streaming to AI to the metaverse and much more. Our technology powers product innovation in the most data-demanding industries today, including data centers, networking, storage, artificial intelligence, 5G wireless infrastructure, and autonomous vehicles. Customers partner with us for mission-critical data communication, our innovative technologies, and our proven track record. Together, we enable the next generation of digital technology.

As a member of Alphawave Semi's Connectivity Products Group, you will help enable the next generation of datacenter interconnects by driving the development of direct detect and Coherent DSP products supporting 800Gbps, 1.6Tbps and beyond interconnects spanning a few millimetres to a few hundred kilometres.

What You'll Do

  • Work with a team of world-class engineers who are willing to help when needed and are happy to receive help when offered.
  • Ensure analog block performance adheres to standard and system model specifications.
  • Identify and refine circuit implementation to optimize power, performance and area targets.
  • Propose design and verification strategies to ensure high quality design.
  • Oversee physical layout to minimize the impact of parasitics, device stress, and process variation.
  • Present simulation data for peer review.
  • Document design features and key test bench performance metrics.
  • Work with the application team to characterize your circuit and correlate measurements with simulation results

What You'll Need:

  • PhD degree or MSc degree in Engineering Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering or Computer Science is at a minimum.
  • The position is located in Toronto and the Engineer will be reporting to the Senior Director
  • 5+ years of experience.
  • Familiarity with transistor-level circuit design using advanced CMOS technology nodes.
  • Silicon-proven experience implementing circuits for analog building blocks.
  • Design experience with one or more of the following circuit blocks: continuous time linear equalizer, slicer, high-speed ADC, voltage-controlled oscillator, phase interpolator, bandgap reference, voltage regulator, serializer, deserializer, voltage/current-mode transmitter, phase-locked loop, phase detector
  • Experience optimising CMOS layout to minimise parasitic impacts.
  • Experience designing for reliability including management of aging, overstress, and electromigration issues.
  • Experience with EDA tools for schematic entry, layout, and verification.
  • Knowledge of SPICE simulators and simulation methods.
  • Knowledgeable in Verilog-A for analog behavioral modelling.

"Hybrid work environment" Your base pay is one component of your compensation. It is influenced by your qualifications, experience, location, and the internal equity of our team to ensure fairness and consistency across roles. In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, employees are also eligible for additional compensation opportunities, including a short-term incentive program, Retirement & Saving Programs and participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

You’ll also be eligible for competitive benefits described as per below: Health & Wellness Our programs emphasize knowledge and prevention, helping you stay proactive and prepared to manage your health at every stage.

  • Comprehensive health plan
  • Health Spending Account (HSA)
  • Wellness Spending Account (WSA)
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Time Off We value the importance of rest and recharge, which is why we offer flexible time off options to support your well-being.

  • Paid Vacation
  • Paid Holidays
  • Parental Leave Top-Up Program

Diversity & Inclusivity Alphawave Semi is based in one of the most diverse countries in the world. This includes differences related to race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender expression and presentation, sexual orientation, religion, age, ability and socioeconomic status. To us, diversity is one of our strongest assets to our organization. We commit ourselves to promoting the recognition and appreciation of our diverse and rich culture. We believe it is critical to our success to promote freedom of thought and opinion in a respectful environment. Our decisions are rooted in respectfully considering each other’s thoughts and opinions and working towards a greater common goal.

Accommodation Alphawave Semi is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals, including visible minorities, Indigenous People, and persons with disabilities. We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. If, as a qualified job applicant, you request an accommodation, Alphawave Semi will consult with you to provide reasonable accommodations according to your specific needs. If you wish to make a request, you will be provided an opportunity if you’re application is selected to proceed in our hiring process.

About Alphawave Semi

Semiconductor Manufacturing

We work to create silicon that enables the highest performing, most reliable and lowest power digital communication networks.

Alphawave Semi is a global leader in high-speed connectivity for the world’s technology infrastructure. Faced with the exponential growth of data, Alphawave Semi’s technology services a critical need: Enabling data to travel faster, more reliably and with higher performance at lower power.

We are a vertically integrated semiconductor company, and our IP, custom silicon, and connectivity products are deployed by global tier-one customers in data centers, compute, networking, AI, 5G, autonomous vehicles, and storage. Founded in 2017 by an expert technical team with a proven track record in licensing semiconductor IP, our mission is to accelerate the critical data infrastructure at the heart of our digital world.