Mixed Signal Silicon Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

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The Role:
As a Mixed Signal Silicon Engineer, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative product solutions. You will work closely with an internal inter-disciplinary team, and third party suppliers to drive key aspects of product definition, execution and optimization. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.

As a member of the RFIC team, you will be responsible for the architectural definition, design, simulation, layout, and extracted simulation for transmit and receive front-ends from the data converters to LNAs and PAs. Strong focus will be on creating the most power optimized solution for a given system performance.

In this role you will:
· Collaborate with communications systems, digital design, and chip implementation teams.
· Actively engage with various technology vendors to decide on the process node.
Explore architectures for circuits like high-speed ADCs, DACs, SERDES, PLLs, and DLLs, and make detailed presentations on power/area/performance tradeoffs.
· Perform circuit layout, RLC extraction, and run extracted simulation across various corners to make sure designs are robust and can be taken to volume production.
· Perform mixed-signal simulations using tools such as Cadence AMS
Collaborate with the digital design team to define analog/digital boundary requirements for circuit calibration, clock generation, and timing.
· Design supporting circuits such as bandgaps, opamps, bias distribution networks, and LDOs.
· Specify bench and production test plans for your designs.

Export Control Requirement:
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Master’s / PhD degree in Electrical / Communications Engineering or related field
· 7+ years of hands on experience in mixed-signal design for wireless or infrastructure systems
· Proven track record where products have gone to volume production
· Familiarity in developing blocks for space applications
· Hands on experience with lab equipment such as network analyzers, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, and probe-stations
· Experience designing digital calibration schemes for data converters and PLLs/VCOs, and other interfacing/supporting circuits like reference generation, sample and hold circuits, comparators, and buffers.
· Familiarity with modeling of RF or analog circuits using System Verilog
· Strong written and verbal skills

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor's degree in Electrical / Communications Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience
· 5+ years of experience in mixed-signal design, preferably in an advanced node
· Hands on experience with Ethernet, DSL, PCIE, or cable front-ends, RF communication SoCs