Analog Design Architecture Engineer

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · Markham, Canada · Engineering

This role is for an Analog Design Architecture Engineer at AMD, focusing on high-performance electrical and optical transceivers. The responsibilities include micro-architecture definition, implementation, verification, and documentation of transceiver components, as well as electrical/optical link budgeting and modeling. The role requires a background in electrical/optical PHY circuit/logic design and micro-architecture, with preferred experience in data converters and advanced PDK design. A PhD or MS in Electrical Engineering or a related field is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Transceiver circuit/link micro-architecture definition, implementation, verification, and documentation: clock generation and distribution, data path, DSP, CDR, calibration & adaptation loops
  2. Top-level and block-level electrical/optical link budgeting and modeling.
  3. Circuit design spec definition of transceiver building blocks (ADC, DAC, PLL, clock distribution, receiver front-end, transmitter front-end, serializer, deserializer, etc.)

Skills

Required

  • electrical/optical PHY circuit/logic design
  • micro-architecture
  • Electrical Engineering or related fields
  • transceiver circuit/link micro-architecture definition, implementation, verification, and documentation
  • electrical/optical link budgeting and modeling
  • Circuit design spec definition of transceiver building blocks

Nice to have

  • extensive design experience in both optical and electrical transceiver design
  • advanced PDK design
  • data converters
  • high speed ADC and/or DAC