Senior Principal Signal Integrity Engineer

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Company: MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.

Location: Hillsboro, OR 97124

Description:

Company Overview:

MACOM designs and manufactures semiconductor products for DataCenter, Telecommunication and Industrial and Defense applications.Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, MACOM has design centers and salesoffices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. MACOM is certified to theISO9001 international quality standard and ISO14001 environmental managementstandard.

MACOM has more than 65 years of application expertise withmultiple design centers, Si, GaAs and InP fabrication, manufacturing, assemblyand test, and operational facilities throughout North America, Europe, andAsia. Click here to view our facilities. In addition, MACOM offers foundryservices that represents a key core competency within our business.

MACOM sells and distributes products globally via a saleschannel comprised of a direct field sales force, authorized salesrepresentatives and leading industry distributors. Our sales team is trainedacross all of our products to give our customers insights into our entireportfolio.

Senior Principal Signal Integrity Engineer

MACOM's High Performance Analog division is searching for a Senior Principal Signal Integrity Engineer. In this capacity, high-level focus will bedefinition and technical guidance, through deployment, of signal integritystrategies and methodologies. This spans from front-end definition to back-end validationof broadband communications products at data rates up to and beyond 200 Gbps.

Job Description

Drive feasibility analyses at onset of product definition phase. Evaluate and specifyelectrical characteristics and performance of devices and systems to determinecompliance with appropriate regulating standards.

Takecradle-to-grave ownership of products through hand-off to product engineeringfor production launch. This encompasses efforts to find limits of productperformance as well as debugging.

Performdetailed modeling and electrical analysis of silicon-to-silicon physicalinterconnects. This covers all aspects of the physical interconnect in a systemcontext, including chip-scale to large-scale packaging, passive connectors andcomponents, and multi-conductor transmission lines.

Aspart of device-level modeling efforts, create, verify, and document IBIS-AMImodels for external customer use.

Defineand carry out experiments to validate modeling methodologies and to establishcorrelation of such to empirical data.

Design,develop, and document interconnect solutions for internal hardware needs aswell as for customer hardware reference designs.

Identifytechniques and methodologies for modeling and measurement of devices andsystems. Actively lead evaluations of these.

Requirements

An ideal candidate will have a PhD degree and 6+ years of directexperience. The minimum requirement is an MSEE degree with 8+ years ofpertinent experience. BSEE will be considered depending on specific relevantbackground and with 15 years minimum experience.

Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, arerequired. The candidate must possess experience in creating and executingdetailed yet effective technical presentations to internal groups as well as tokey customers.

Proven debug skills of devices and systems is paramount to successfor this position.

A strong understanding of basic circuit and transmission linetheory is essential, as is familiarity with and a working knowledge ofconcurrent time and frequency-domain methods of analysis and characterization.

Programming experience is required in Matlab and C++.

Programming experience is desired with languages such as Linuxshell, perl, TCL, etc...

Expert-level knowledge and experience with 3D electro-magneticfield simulators such as Ansoft HFSS, with proven ability to create models ofusable bandwidth to a minimum of 100 GHz is required.

In-depth knowledge of circuit simulation tools such as Cadence ICCraftsman, and Agilent ADS (or Ansys Designer) is a must.

Working experience is required in Agilent SystemVue system-levelsimulator. Equivalent experience with Mathworks' SimuLink is helpful.

Candidate should have extensive experience defining and setting upexperiments, as well as collecting measurement data using TDR, VNA, BERTs,DCAs/oscilloscopes, and spectrum analyzers.

EEO:

MACOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverseworkforce. MACOM will not discriminateagainst any worker or job applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex,gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, geneticinformation, veteran status, military service, marital status, or any othercategory protected under applicable law.

Reasonable Accommodation:

MACOM is committed to working with and providing reasonableaccommodations to qualified individuals with physical and mentaldisabilities. If you have a disability and are in need of a reasonableaccommodation with respect to any part of the application process please call+1-978-656-2500 or email HR_Ops@MACOM.com. Provide your name, phonenumber and the position title and location in which you are interested, andnature of accommodation needed, and we will get back to you. We also workwith current employees who request or need reasonable accommodation in order toperform the essential functions of their jobs.

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