ASIC High Speed AMS Technical Leader

Cisco

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Work type
Remote
Location
Carlsbad, CA
Salary
$189,300–$271,500 / yr
Posted
53 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Sep 30, 2026

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Above market

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TL;DR · ASIC High Speed AMS Technical Leader

As an ASIC High Speed AMS Technical Leader within the Common Hardware Group, you will provide technical leadership for silicon photonics driver integrated circuits supporting 100G/200G/400G per Lambda solutions. You will own full-chip electrical specifications, mixed-signal design, and verification test plans from concept through production while coordinating across electrical, optical, and product teams. Your daily responsibilities include designing high-speed datapath and low-speed control circuits, including photonics modulator drivers, serializers, PLLs, TIAs, and control circuits optimized for power and performance. You will also debug complex silicon issues during bring-up and mentor engineers in analog, digital, and validation fields. Required expertise includes high-speed optical transceiver design, Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre, Caliber, SystemVerilog, Verilog-AMS, and Python or C. This role addresses the challenge of developing advanced pluggable and Co-packaged Optics for next-generation data center architectures.

What you'll do

  • Lead full-chip electrical specifications and mixed-signal design for silicon photonics driver integrated circuits.
  • Design high-speed datapath and low-speed control circuits for receive and transmit paths in next-generation modules.
  • Develop and optimize components including modulator drivers, serializers, PLLs, TIAs, and other control circuits.
  • Create verification test plans and manage the full tapeout cycle from initial concept through production.
  • Debug complex silicon and system-level issues during bring-up and lab validation phases to improve yield.
  • Mentor and guide analog, digital, and validation engineers on design and testing strategies.
  • Develop automation scripts and analytical tools using Python or C for circuit design.

What we're looking for

  • Minimum requirement of Bachelor's plus 12 years, Master's plus 8 years, or PhD plus 5 years of high-speed AMS design experience.
  • Expertise in high-speed optical transceiver design including modulator drivers, TIA, CDR, PLLs, and ADC/DAC circuits.
  • Proficiency with industry standard tools such as Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre, Caliber, SystemVerilog, and Verilog-AMS.
  • Ability to lead design teams through the full tapeout cycle and manage circuit verification test plans.
  • Proficiency in Python or C for design automation, scripting, and analytical tools.
  • Experience with silicon photonics driver ICs and direct-detect optical module architectures.
  • Strong understanding of MSA standards (QSFP/QSFP-DD) and IEEE 802.3 specifications.
  • Experience with lab instrumentation including digital communication analyzers, real-time scopes, BERTs, and SI/PI analysis.

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