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Acacia Communications, a leader in disruptive optical and coherent technology, is looking for a Senior Millimeter Wave Engineer. The candidate will be a key member in a small, dynamic IC Design team that develops millimeter-wave circuits for Acacia’s silicon photonics-based optical transponders.  The candidate will co-architect, design, layout, measure and productize silicon-based, 30+Gb/s ICs.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Work with the analog team and PIC designers to co-architect electro-optic TX and RX IC solutions to meet transponder-level specifications
• Schematic-design, layout and laboratory-characterization of mm-wave ICs
• Set and track IC-project, internal-DVT, qualification and production-test schedules
• Work with contract manufacturers manage qualification and high-volume production-testing of ICs

Minimum Qualifications, Experience, Skills, Education and Certifications:

• Typically requires a BSEE degree and 9 years of experience or an MS degree and 6 years of experience or a PhD and 3 years of experience.
• Expertise in RF/Millimeter-wave CMOS/SiGe-BiCMOS IC design
• Design, simulation and measurement (at wafer-level) of 15+ Gb/s ICs including but not limited to:
  • Linear amplifiers/drivers
  • Transimpedance amplifiers
  • AGC circuits
  • Linear equalizers
  • SERDES
• Collaborative team player who can work independently
• High-frequency/mm-wave layout experience a plus:

Highly Desired Skills:

• Direct experience with coherent optical communications links as well as electrical transceiver applications including backplane and cable communications
• Experience designing, measuring and integrating analog/mixed-signal transmitter/receiver IC or IP into a standalone packaged-component or a larger subsystem intended for high-volume production
• Experience with 0.18um SiGe BiCMOS technology, 65nm CMOS or smaller

Passive component design: inductors, transformers, transmission-lines, etc… Advanced modeling with Verilog-A Floorplanning (power/ground, digital/analog signal rounting, etc…) Custom transistor layout Experience with 16nm FinFET a plus

• Design for manufacturability:

  Characterization over PVT (monte-carlo analysis, )

  Electromigration, power and IR drop analysis (using Totem, or equivalent)

  Thermal analysis a plus

  Ageing simulations a plus

• Software Experience:

Cadence (virtuoso) Spectre/Eldo Calibre h-DRC and h-LVS Cadence QRC extraction or Calibre STAR-RC EMX or ADS or HFSS  (3D modeling equivalent) Verilog-A modeling Mixed-signal simulations in AMS

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.