Design high-performance analog and RF ICs optimized for precision, power, and area, driving prototype and product iterations from architecture to silicon validation.
Responsibilities
Design and simulate analog and RF integrated circuits, including critical blocks such as amplifiers, mixers, PLLs, ADCs, DACs, and bias/reference circuits, with a focus on signal integrity, linearity, and precision.
Optimize circuits for power, area, and performance trade-offs, ensuring designs meet system-level requirements across process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) variations.
Collaborate closely with optics, simulation and PCB teams to define architecture and block-level specifications for successive prototypes and product iterations, ensuring tight alignment with overall performance and integration goals.
Work with layout engineers to guide floor-planning and physical design, minimizing parasitic effects and preserving analog precision in layout-sensitive blocks.
Support post-silicon validation and bring-up, defining test plans, analyzing lab measurements, and correlating results with simulation to refine future design iterations.
Language: English at a proficient level. French is a plus.
Requirements: A sound mathematical understanding and deep physical intuition of analog electronics, as well as analog voltage-to-current and current-to-voltage conversion at low and high frequencies.
Experience in designing high-precision analog systems for signal processing or power electronics. Experience working with high-frequency analog signals is valued.
Extensive experience in IC design and post-layout design methodology using standard industry tools like Cadence Virtuoso.
Proficiency in designing and optimizing mixed-signal circuits, including DACs and ADCs at low (kHz-MHz) and high (>GHz) frequencies, and signal conditioning circuits, ensuring flawless integration between analog RF components and digital processors.
Strong understanding of signal integrity, crosstalk, and noise reduction techniques in mixed-signal environments, particularly in high-frequency RF systems interfacing with digital processors.
Advanced node experience required (<28nm).
This position is open to all candidates.