Analog Circuit Design Engineer

Intel Intel · Semiconductors · Bangalore, India

Analog Circuit Design Engineer at Intel focusing on PLLs and clocking circuits, involving design, validation, and reliability. Requires strong fundamentals in CMOS design and semiconductor device physics.

What you'd actually do

  1. Experience in LC VCO/DCO design.
  2. Good exposure to performance parameters of VCO as well as complete PLL architecture.
  3. Exposure to inductor custom design.
  4. Involvement in multi-dimensional 3D solver tools for inductor characterization.
  5. The candidate should have experience in Analog and Mixed Signal Design with focus on PLLs and clocking circuits.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor/Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
  • CMOS semiconductor device physics
  • silicon processing
  • CMOS digital, analog, and I/O circuit design
  • transistor-level circuit simulation tools such as SPICE
  • Analog and Mixed Signal Design
  • PLLs and clocking circuits
  • CMOS design
  • passive RC circuits
  • switched cap circuits
  • circuit design
  • validation
  • mixed signal validation
  • reliability validation
  • PLL designs (either Charge-Pump based or ADPLLs or both, Fractional-N PLLs, spread-spectrum PLLs, etc.)
  • High speed digital circuit design and analysis with timing and flow closure
  • Digitally assisted analog circuit and techniques
  • High speed, low power, and reliable analog and digital circuits for various areas of PLL
  • control systems
  • band gaps
  • bias
  • op-amps
  • LDOs
  • feedback and compensation techniques

Nice to have

  • 5-8 years of experience in Circuit Design
  • 1-2 years experience in LC Oscillators Inductor Design
  • CMOS transistor and semiconductor device layout methods
  • Cadence design automation tools (ADS, Analog Artist, or Virtuoso)
  • DRC, LVS, and post-layout extraction tools

What the JD emphasized

  • Strong fundamentals of CMOS design
  • Strong academic background required in CMOS semiconductor device physics