Staff Analog Mixed-Signal Design Engineer

CA Pay Range (Annual):

$134,400.00 - $249,600.00

At Infinera, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. Your actual base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. This role may be eligible for equity grants, discretionary bonuses, or commission payments. The amount of these incentives is based on the terms of the Company’s incentive plans, the Company’s financial performance, and/or individual employee job performance.

Infinera also offers paid leave, medical, 

dental, and vision coverage, 401(k),

life, and disability insurance to eligible employees.

Essential Functions and Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and simulate the functionality and performance of high resolution data-converters including DACs and ADCs;
• Design, implement, and simulate the functionality and performance of other various low power, low noise analog circuits such as band-gap and reference circuits, opamps and output buffers;
• Craft layout floor plans to optimize the overall performance; Supervise the layout activities and give concise guidelines to layout engineers, need to be hands-on in drawing layout if necessary;
• Develop the analog testing plans and work with the PE/TE teams to characterize the functionality and performance of the products to ensure the quality;
• Need to comply with the team’s design methodologies and release flows.

Mandatory Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Must be extremely familiar with essential CAD tools, such as Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre, Layout and Layout-XL, Mentor AFS and Calibre.
• Must have a proven tracking record of designing data-converters and taking them to production;
• Must have a good understanding of standard CMOS as well as high-voltage technologies (e.g. BCD)  analog / mixed-signal design methodologies and circuit analysis;
• Must have a good understanding of ESD protections;
• Must have a good understanding of device physics and the impacts of layout effects;
• Able to perform the behavioral modeling of the blocks and circuits with Verilog-A or Verilog-AMS;
• Collaborative with other local or remote team members in a professional environment.

Preferred Knowledge/Skill/Abilities:

• Fluent in verbal and written communications;
• Capable of coaching and mentoring new or junior circuit designers and layout engineers;
• Independently resolves issues and conquers design challenges;
• Self-motivated and detail-oriented.

Education and Experience Requirements: 

• Staff Design Engineer: M.S. in E.E. with 8+ years experience, or Ph.D. in E.E. with 8+ years experience
• Principal Design Engineer: M.S. in E.E. with 12+ years experience, or Ph.D. in E.E. with 12+ years experience

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