About the RoleWe are looking for a Principal Mixed-Signal Design Engineer, Data Converters to lead the architecture and development of wideband, high-performance data converters and associated analog front-ends for advanced mixed-signal SoCs. This is a hands-on technical leadership role with significant ownership-from architecture and technology tradeoffs through circuit design, integration, and silicon validation.
Responsibilities - Architect and design high-speed, wideband ADCs and DACs targeting demanding RF and mixed-signal applications.
- Lead converter architecture selection and trade studies, balancing bandwidth, sampling rate, resolution/ENOB, linearity, power, area, and implementation risk.
- Design supporting wideband analog front-ends, including ADC input networks, track-and-hold/sampling circuits, DAC output stages, references, biasing, clocking, and calibration circuitry.
- Develop high-performance circuits in advanced FinFET CMOS technologies and address the unique analog design challenges associated with deeply scaled nodes.
- Own designs from concept and behavioral modeling through transistor-level implementation, layout, verification, and silicon characterization.
- Develop calibration and correction techniques for impairments and work closely with DSP/systems engineers on mixed-signal algorithms.
- Define converter specifications and interfaces in collaboration with systems, RF, digital, package, and verification teams.
- Drive converter integration into complex mixed-signal SoCs, including power, clocking, signal integrity, and physical implementation considerations.
- Help establish data-converter design methodologies, IP, simulation infrastructure, and best practices from the ground up.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to analog and mixed-signal engineers.
Qualifications - MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field with significant industry experience in high-performance analog/mixed-signal IC design.
- Deep expertise designing GHz-class and/or multi-GS/s ADCs and DACs.
- Strong understanding of converter architectures such as SAR, pipeline, time-interleaved, flash/folding, current-steering DACs, and hybrid architectures.
- Demonstrated ability to translate system requirements into converter architectures and circuit-level specifications.
- Strong experience with wideband analog/RF signal paths, sampling circuits, clocking, references, and low-noise/high-linearity circuit design.
- Experience designing high-performance analog circuits in FinFET technologies.
- Strong understanding of converter impairments, including jitter, noise, distortion, mismatch, timing skew, interleaving errors, and calibration.
- Experience taking complex analog/mixed-signal ICs from architecture through tapeout and silicon bring-up.
- Deep proficiency with industry-standard analog/mixed-signal design, simulation, and verification tools.
Preferred Qualifications - Experience with RF-sampling or direct-RF ADC/DAC architectures.
- Experience developing converters with multi-GHz instantaneous bandwidth.
- Experience with digitally assisted analog design and background/foreground calibration.
- Experience integrating converters into large digital-heavy SoCs.
- Experience with advanced packaging, high-speed I/O, and signal-integrity considerations for wideband mixed-signal devices.
- Experience helping build new methodologies and silicon platforms from the ground up.
Compensation and Benefits:- Base salary range for this role is $190,000 - $285,000 + equity in the company
- Salary will be based on several factors including, but not limited to: knowledge and skills, education, and experience level
- Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical/dental/vision/ coverage, life insurance, paid parental leave, and many other perks
If you don't meet 100% of the preferred skills and experience, we encourage you to still apply! Building a spacecraft unlike any other requires a team unlike any other and non-traditional career twists and turns are encouraged!
