Serdes Analog Mixed-signal Design Expert

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · San Jose, CA · Engineering

This role is for an Analog Mixed-Signal Design Expert at AMD, focusing on Serdes technology. The responsibilities include designing high-performance analog mixed-signal circuit blocks for Serdes, defining micro-architectures, managing power/performance/area budgets, mentoring, and working with verification and validation teams. Experience with ultra-high-speed electrical and optical PHY design, silicon productization, and advanced CMOS PDKs is preferred. The role is in San Jose, CA.

What you'd actually do

  1. To own performance-critical analog mixed-signal circuit blocks used in Serdes, such as high-speed data converters (DAC and ADC), clocking (reference clock, PLL, clock dividers, muxes, buffers, regulators, multi-phase clock generators, error detection and correction), and analog front-end circuits (pad matching networks, ESD, CTLE, linear amplifier)
  2. To define circuit-driven micro-architectures of Tx and Rx subsystems and drive sub-block level specs.
  3. To own power, performance, area, and jitter budgets of analog design blocks
  4. To mentor sub-block owners and conduct peer reviews of design and verification results
  5. To work with pre-tapeout verification and post-silicon validation teams to bring up silicon and analyze silicon results

Skills

Required

  • analog mixed-signal circuit design
  • architecture
  • ultra-high-speed electrical and/or optical PHY design
  • high-speed data converters (DAC and ADC)
  • clocking (reference clock, PLL, clock dividers, muxes, buffers, regulators, multi-phase clock generators, error detection and correction)
  • analog front-end circuits (pad matching networks, ESD, CTLE, linear amplifier)
  • Tx and Rx subsystems
  • power, performance, area, and jitter budgets
  • design and verification results
  • pre-tapeout verification
  • post-silicon validation
  • bring up silicon
  • analyze silicon results

Nice to have

  • Experience designing 200G+ CMOS transceivers
  • deep understanding of high-speed electrical and/or optical interface requirements
  • hands-on circuit optimizations
  • tuning for power, performance, and area at both block and system levels
  • silicon productization—from initial design through to bring-up, validation, and successful ramp to mass production
  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or a related field or M.S. with relevant industrial experience in optical and/or electrical transceiver design

What the JD emphasized

  • proven track record in silicon productization