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This role can be performed Hybrid with three days per week onsite at our Ottawa office.

Acacia designs intelligent transceivers using advanced signal processing and photonic integration for the 100G, 400G and 1T bit speed fiber optic transmission market deployed in data center, metro, long-haul and ultra-long haul telecommunication networks.

Meet the Team

We are Mixed-signal IC design group that develops high speed (>25Gb/s), and high accuracy, analog designs for optical communications products. We optimize design that will integrate into the ASIC. Our team interacts with other Acacia groups including digital/DSP design, system design, package design, and module design.

Your Impact

You will use your knowledge of circuit designs including device theory and signal integrity to support issues found in the lab or by customer

You will analyze data from lab, identify the probable circuits, run post-layout simulations of the circuit in cadence, and correlate the observed issue to find root cause

You have hand-on experience in using the lab equipment such as DCA, spectrum analyzer, etc, and as well as familiar with python script

In addition to your sustaining role, you will also design, layout, measure and productize ultra-deep sub-micron-based CMOS products and participate in peer review of complex IC designs and provide solid design methodology from conception to production.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams from Testing, ATE, reliability, packaging, and hardware design team

Minimum qualifications

BSEE degree with 8+ years of experience or equivalent or an MS degree with 6+ years of experience,



or equivalent or a PhD with 3+ years of experience, or equivalent

Design, simulation and measurement of high speed ICs experience in at least 3 areas below:

High Speed Serial Links utilizing serializers, deserializers, and data convertors, voltage regulators, output drivers, phase locked loops, clock transmission/propagation, opamps, programmable gain amplifiers, and equalization

Preferred qualifications

Experience with electrical transceiver applications including backplane and cable communications

Experience with FinFET technology

High-frequency layout experience a plus: Passive component design: inductors,

transformers, transmission-lines, etc.

Floorplanning (power/ground, digital/analog signal routing, etc.) experience

Custom transistor layout experience

Experience designing for manufacturability

Experience with ESD laboratory practices and methodology

Experience with Cadence (virtuoso), Spectre/APS/SpectreX, Matlab, EMX

Experience with mixed-signal simulations in AMS

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Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada: The starting salary range posted for this position is $144,900.00 to $184,300.00 and reflects the projected salary range for recent hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

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