High-Speed Analog & Mixed-Signal PHY Design Engineer

Job Title

Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Designer

Company

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Analog Mixed Signal Design

General Summary

Qualcomm's Mixed-Signal PHY design team is actively looking for an analog and mixed-signal circuit designer to work on SerDes PHY designs. This designer will be involved in delivering next-generation PHY designs for SoCs and will be part of a growing team involved in architecture analysis in leading-edge CMOS process technology nodes at 7nm and beyond. Design goals also include low-power analog designs to address Qualcomm's wireline interface need.

Job Description

The primary responsibility of this position entails working within a team to deliver analog and mixed-signal transistor level circuit designs along with supervising physical layouts of the high speed, low-power PHY SerDes blocks. Experience with >32Gbps transceiver or clocking design is highly desired

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering with 2+ years of experience with analog or mixed-signal integrated circuit design in nanometer planar CMOS or FinFET and 6+ years ASIC design, verification, or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field and 6+ years ASIC design, verification, or related work experience. OR PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field and 4+ years ASIC design, verification, or related work experience. • 2+ years of experience using one or more design tools (e.g., CADENCE, SPICE, MATLAB, and/or Verilog/VHDL).

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field. • 6+ years of experience in analog/mixed-signal integrated CMOS circuit design for a specific area (e.g., VCO, PLL, and DLL design, Audio CODEC and Class D Audio amplifier design, Delta-Sigma, SAR ADCs, Current-Steering DACs, high speed DDR PHYs, high-speed SERDES). • 2+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Director and above). • 1+ year of experience in a technical leadership role.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Uses advanced tools or databases to lead a chip or IP block and build end-to-end architecture and complex circuit designs for multiple blocks; leads design reviews and provides feedback and guidance to others. • Works with layout teams to oversee layout of a chip or IP block. • Defines verification plan for entire IP or chip and identifies and runs complex simulations and analyses (e.g., power, performance) on designs; documents and utilizes results to improve and verify designs and optimize power, performance, and functionality. • Designs, programs, and runs complex, comprehensive tests for large subsystems and reviews tests of junior team members; ensures complex bugs and other issues are identified and appropriately analyzed, and identifies solutions or areas of improvement. • Establishes rapport with internal or external users, and third-party vendors to align on project and implementation plans and ensure the needs of all stakeholders are met. • Applies deep understanding across multiple domains to ensure all components will integrate in the broader framework. • Writes clear and detailed technical documentation and design descriptions for highly complex or difficult projects to guide users and/or customers and assists junior team members to do the same. • Conducts research on industry trends and innovations in analog or mixed-signal integrated circuit design to understand one's business unit and adopt best practices in solutions and deliverables across the system and encourages others to do the same. • Leads conversations to generate new ideas and directions to explore for new initiatives; pursues opportunities to plan and develop new ideas.

Level of Responsibility

• Working independently with little supervision. • Providing supervision to others who may be direct reports. • Making decisions that are moderate in impact; errors may have relatively minor financial impact or effect on projects, operations, or customer relationships; errors may require involvement beyond immediate work group to correct. • Using verbal and written communication skills to convey information that may be somewhat complex to others who may have limited knowledge of the subject in question; may require basic negotiation and influence, cooperation, tact, and diplomacy, etc. • Working within prescribed budget and resources. • Having a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to provide input on key decisions). • Completing tasks that do not have defined steps; simultaneous use of multiple mental abilities is generally required to determine the best approach; mistakes may result in significant rework. • Exercising substantial creativity to innovate new processes, procedures, or work products within guidelines or to achieve established objectives. • Using deductive and inductive problem solving; multiple approaches may be taken/necessary to solve the problem; often information is missing or conflicting; advanced data analysis and interpretation skills are required. • Occasionally participates in strategic planning within own area affecting immediate operations.

Pay Range and Other Compensation & Benefits

$164,000.00 - $246,000.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.