Senior Staff Engineer II - Custom Layout Serdes

The Opportunity

We're looking for the Wavemakers of tomorrow.

Alphawave Semi enables tomorrow’s future by accelerating the critical data communication at the heart of our digital world – from seamless video streaming to AI to the metaverse and much more. Our technology powers product innovation in the most data-demanding industries today, including data centers, networking, storage, artificial intelligence, 5G wireless infrastructure, and autonomous vehicles. Customers partner with us for mission-critical data communication, our innovative technologies, and our proven track record. Together, we enable the next generation of digital technology.

Custom Layout / High-Speed Analog Layout Engineer

Alphawave IP builds industry-leading wired connectivity solutions that enable data to travel faster, more reliably, and with higher performance at lower power. Our technology is embedded in leading-edge semiconductors built to power global network and computer systems. It is an essential part of the core infrastructure enabling next generation services in data centers, artificial intelligence, 5G wireless infrastructure, data networking, autonomous vehicles, and solid-state storage.

The Opportunity          

The Alphawave IP team combines technologists from different disciplines who come together with a shared passion for electronics, software, and communication technology. We look for individuals with a deep desire to build great products and we value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems.

The Alphawave Custom Layout team is composed of a group of highly technical, innovative, and passionate engineers, collaborating to develop the analog layouts and architectures for our world class high-speed SerDes IP’s.

What You’ll Do          

• Custom analog layout design for industry leading high speed Serdes architectures
• Working in leading edge semiconductor nodes and cad tools including latest 3nm node
• Detailed collaboration in optimizing layouts with analog design team
• Floor-planning
• Perform physical verification (DRC,ANT,LVS,ERC,…)
• Development and maintenance of layout software automation capabilities
• Work with a team of world-class engineers who are willing to help when needed and are happy to receive help when offered

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor's in Electrical/Computer Engineering, EngSci, or equivalent
• Familiarity with high-speed analog layout, electronics and CMOS transistors
• Bonus points if you have worked in recent FinFet technologies (7nm, 5nm, etc)
• Minimum of 2 years of custom layout experience
• The position is located in Vancouver
• 5+ years of experience is preferred

About You

• Excellent communication skills
• Able to listen to and appreciate ideas and opinions that differ from yours
• Extremely detail oriented
• Superb analytical and problem-solving skills
• Drives for consistency
• Takes personal pride in high standard of outputs
• Self-motivated and self-managing

Diversity & Inclusivity

Alphawave IP is based out of one of the most diverse countries in the world. This includes differences related to race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender expression and presentation, sexual orientation, religion, age, ability and socioeconomic status. To us, diversity is one our strongest assets to our organization. We commit ourselves to promoting the recognition and appreciation of our diverse and rich culture. We believe that it is critical to our success to promote freedom of thought and opinion in a respectful environment. The decisions we make are rooted by respectfully considering each other’s thoughts and opinions and by working towards a greater common goal, saving lives.

Accommodation

Alphawave IP is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals, including visible minorities, Indigenous People, and persons with disabilities. We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. If as a qualified job applicant, you request accommodation, Alphawave IP will consult with you to provide reasonable accommodations according to your specific needs. If you wish to make a request, you will be provided an opportunity if you’re applications is selected to proceed in our hiring process.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Alphawave Semi is an equal opportunity employer, welcoming all applicants regardless of age, gender, race, disability, or other protected characteristics. We value diversity and provide accommodations during the recruitment process.