Senior High Speed Mixed-Signal I/O & Analog Layout Engineer (NO C2C)

Contract Duration: 6 months contract

Description:

As a senior high speed mixed-signal layout/analog layout engineer, you will be working with circuit designers located in San Jose, California, USA to accomplish layout tasks. Circuits that you will need to work on includes High Speed RX (receiver), TX (transmitters), PLL, CDR, Analog reference circuits, and so on. You should have experiences doing layout with sub-micron CMOS technologies.

Location: Onsite at our San Jose office/headquarters 5 days a week

Responsibilities:

• Working with remote circuit designers to determine the chip floorplan. You need to come up with strategies to optimize the parasites, reduce area, and improve High Speed SERDES/analog performance.

• You need to be able to estimate schedule and come up with plan how to get things done within a dedicated time frame.

• You should be able to read the design document provided by the foundry and figure out how to resolve issues like latch-up and DRC.

• Perform custom layout using Virtuoso, and be able to get LVS/DRC clean.

• You should be familiar with CAD tools, including Virtuoso, Calibre LVS, DRC, SkillCad and so on.

• Desired to have experience on chip level design, like bump, pad, and ESD strategies.

• Good communication skills to discuss with circuit designer.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical or computer engineering and 5 years of professional experience as an IC layout designer; OR 8 years of professional experience with integrated circuit layout design in lieu of a degree

Preferred Skills:

• Strong High Speed SERDES/analog layout skills

• Experience in advanced nodes in IC layout, including finfet 14nm, 8nm, 4nm and 2nm GAA.

• Experience in IC layouts with frequencies up to 224Gb/s.

• Experience in critical IC layouts, including VCO, clocking circuit, TX, and RX and so on.

• Working knowledge in Linux

• Proficiency in CAD tools including Cadence Virtuoso, Calibre LVS, DRC, and SkillCad.

• Excellency in communications skills in the form of verbal, email, and in documentations.

• Be able to work independently.

• Good to have experience to lead a small team and tape-out an analog IC.

About us:

The Norland Group has been in operation successfully since 1996. We are a strong believer of people management, professionalism and accountability. We only make promises when we are certain we can fulfill them. Our business focuses on fulfilling the needs of commercial and government customers in administrative services, workforce mobilization, information technology, engineering, project management services.
Our Mission Statement

Our main goal is to provide career advancement opportunities to our associates. We are committed to bringing our customers exceptional support services with the highest quality, integrity, and innovation. We believe that we are the stepping stone for our associates to advance their careers and to live a better life. Everyone should have a chance to live a successful and happy life. We operate our business based on those values and we choose employees who value the same principles.