Lead IC Layout Engineer

My client is a semiconductor / interconnect company focusing on high-speed, energy-efficient chip-tochip link solutions. If you love to be part of a high-tech scale-up and are motivated by pushing your limits and challenging the status quo, this is the opportunity for you.

As part of their growth plans they are seeking Lead IC Layout Engineer, based in UK

Responsibility

• Position in custom layout and verification of analog circuits, cells, blocks, and IP for multi-Gigabit high speed chip to chip communication links (SerDes up to and beyond 28Gb/s and/or memory IO) in advanced semiconductor technology nodes
• Layout and verification of very high-speed analog circuits
• Interact closely with the design team to understand requirements and implement solutions
• Support IP and chip level integration
• Support and interact with customers on requirements, and IP delivery
• Exposure to flip-chip package technologies

Experience

• Must have experience in custom analog layout of circuits and blocks for multi-Gigabit serial data-link transceivers or HF/RF circuits
• Must have expertise in layout of high-speed/frequency circuits like amplifiers, oscillators, phaselocked loops, delay-locked loops, and other fundamental building blocks like biasing, buffers, regulators, filters, data converters, etc.
• Understanding of layout approaches and techniques for high-speed circuits, matching constraints, minimization of parasitics, power grids and ESD requirements
• Experience on modern semiconductor process technologies including 28nm, 14/16nm, 7nm
• User of EDA tool for design and verification like Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre/HSpice, Calibre/PVS DRC/LVS, parasitics extraction and modelling, EM, and IR drop, ESD, etc.

Skills

• Self-motivated, with strong sense of ownership and responsibility. Good communicator and team player
• Manage workload and schedules and report to internal management team
• Background in Semiconductor Physics

Education

• Graduate in E.E.