Analog Design Engineer

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · Boxborough, MA · Engineering

Analog Design Engineer at AMD, focusing on high-performance electrical and optical transceivers in advanced CMOS PDKs. Responsibilities include micro-architecture definition, implementation, verification, and documentation of transceiver components, as well as link budgeting and modeling. Requires a PhD or MS in Electrical Engineering with extensive design experience in optical and electrical transceivers, and expertise in data converters.

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
  • clock generation and distribution
  • data path
  • DSP
  • CDR
  • calibration & adaptation loops
  • electrical/optical link budgeting and modeling
  • ADC
  • DAC
  • PLL
  • receiver front-end
  • transmitter front-end
  • serializer
  • deserializer

Nice to have

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