Signal Integrity Engineer

Company Overview:

MACOM designs and manufactures semiconductor products for Data Center, Telecommunication, and Industrial and Defense applications. Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, MACOM has design centers and sales offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. MACOM is certified to the ISO9001 international quality standard and ISO14001 environmental management standard.

MACOM has more than 75 years of application expertise with multiple design centers, Si, GaAs, and InP fabrication, manufacturing, assembly and test, and operational facilities throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Click here to view our facilities. https://www.macom.com/. In addition, MACOM offers foundry services that represents a key core competency within our business.

MACOM sells and distributes products globally via a sales channel comprised of a direct field sales force, authorized sales representatives, and leading industry distributors. Our sales team is trained across all of our products to give our customers insights into our entire portfolio.

Role: Systems Engineer

Job Requirements:

• An understanding of basic circuit and transmission line theory is essential, as is familiarity with and a working knowledge of concurrent time and frequency-domain methods of analysis and characterization. In addition, the knowledge and experience with use of vector network analyzers is paramount.
• Programming familiarity is desired with languages such as Python, Matlab, and C /C#.
• A working knowledge of circuit simulation tools such as Agilent's ADS (or Ansys' Designer) is desired. Practical experience with 3D electro-magnetic field simulators such as Ansys’ HFSS is required, with expectation to create usable models with 3 dB bandwidths in the 70-110 GHz range.
• Desired candidate must have a solid understanding of the scientific method and have adequate experience setting up experiments, and collecting measurement data using mainstream equipment used for characterizing high speed serial links, both electrical and optical.
  
  

Key Responsibilities:

• Design systems using multiple MACOM and external vendor’s components and subsystems
• Help develop system level architectures for MACOM’s next generation products.
• Perform system level analysis, evaluate key trade-offs, develop models & simulations to validate the architecture
• Translate high level objectives into chip level and block level requirements.
• Helps debug issues and identify performance bottlenecks in systems internally and with customer’s engineering teams.
  
  

Key Competencies & Skills required:

• Experience in architecting systems to meet stringent power, cost, and performance targets
• Experience analysing and system and block level specifications.
• Experience with system modelling using System Verilog, System C, Matlab and the like.
• Experience debugging system issues in both internal lab and customer lab environments.
• Working knowledge of modern system design and testing methods.
• Working knowledge of lab equipment including oscilloscopes, VNA, BERTs, communication protocols analysers, etc.
  
  

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• BSEE or higher. Coursework emphasis should be within Signal Integrity discipline, or microwaves/RF and electromagnetics.
• 5 years of experience
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, are required.
  
  

The Salary Range for this position is $70,000 – $113,000. Actual salary offered to candidate will depend on several factors, including but not limited to, work location, relevant candidates’ experience, education, and specific knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Benefits: This position offers a comprehensive benefits package including but not limited to:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Employer-sponsored 401(k) plan.
• Paid time off.
• Professional development opportunities.
  
  

EEO:

MACOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse workforce. MACOM will not discriminate against any worker or job applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military service, marital status, or any other category protected under applicable law.

Reasonable Accommodation:

MACOM is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you have a disability and are in need of a reasonable accommodation with respect to any part of the application process, please call 1-978-656-2500 or email HR_Ops@MACOM.com. Provide your name, phone number and the position title and location in which you are interested, and nature of accommodation needed, and we will get back to you. We also work with current employees who request or need reasonable accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of their jobs.