Senior Analog/RF IC Designer
Ottawa, Ontario
To innovate competitive circuit designs and provide technical leadership in the development of advanced tuner and demodulator products.
Key Accountability Areas
- Establish technical requirements for circuit designs and architectures, prepare realistic project schedules and coordinate the technical team to achieve objectives.
- Provide leadership and guidance to find methods to deliver required circuit performance with reduced area and power consumption.
- Continually improve processes to enable rapid development of quality designs.
Typical Activities
- Establish architectures and designs which meet key specifications.
- Design high-performance circuit blocks which meet key specifications.
- Layout key circuit blocks, as required.
- Conduct and participate in detailed design reviews.
- Provide technical leadership within a team environment, sharing common goals, strategies and information.
- Communicate with appropriate frequency and detail to superiors, peers and subordinates.
- Lab evaluation of circuits, as required.
Requirements
- Seven years’ experience in the field and preferably a Master’s or Ph.D. degree.
- Silicon proven, production-worthy analog/RF IC designs, with expertise in such blocks as low-noise amplifiers, mixers, PLLs, ADCs, DACs, amplifiers and potentially other high-speed blocks.
- Expertise in analog design techniques, circuit fundamentals, biasing, matching and reliability issues.
- Expertise in analog signal processing concepts, such as filtering, feedback and FFT analysis.
- Understand, identify, and quantify non-idealities in circuit and physical design.
- Ability to work in a team environment sharing common goals, strategies and information.
- Ability to organize work and deliver to schedule.
- Understanding of advanced CMOS processes and modelling issues. Familiarity with BiCMOS would be advantageous.
- Significant experience with the Cadence design tool suite including Spectre/SpectreRF as well as verification tools such as Calibre and Assura.
- Familiarity with design automation techniques, mixed-signal simulation tools, OCEAN and SKILL scripting is considered a plus.
Please note that all applications will be treated in the strictest confidence. We would like to thank all applicants but can only respond to those whom we plan to interview.
Applications
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Note to Search Firms:
Fresco Microchip does not accept unsolicited resumes from any agency that has not signed a service agreement. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Fresco Microchip and will not qualify for a referral fee.