At Kandou, we are redefining the economics of AI infrastructure. Our mission is to democratise AI by significantly reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of hardware systems — a critical barrier to scalable adoption.
Our proprietary MIMO-over-copper technology powers a high-performance, chiplet-based AI memory fabric that is both scalable and energy-efficient. Unlike traditional interconnects, our solution reduces power consumption significantly while preserving high bandwidth and ultra-low latency — unlocking unprecedented efficiency for AI training and inference at scale.
Kandou’s architecture is not just an incremental improvement — it’s a foundational shift in how AI hardware is built for the future.
Job title: Analog Design Engineer
Location: EU/CH/UK
Key Responsibilities
- Position in design, modeling, and verification of custom analog designs for high-speed Serdes transceivers in advanced technology nodes
- Design and verification of analog circuits, following prescribed design and documentation flows, to meet architecture specifications
- If necessary, support and interact with customers on requirements, design specifications, performance results and product delivery
- Support analog IP and chip level integration
- Collaborate with architects, technical leads, analog and digital design, layout, integration, verification, silicon validation and quality teams as needed
Competencies
- Skilled in the design of high speed analog serdes circuits including DFT, DFM and ESD protection, with a deep knowledge of transistor and wireline communications fundamentals
- Understanding of layout approaches and design techniques used for high-speed and high precision circuits
- Advanced user of EDA tools for design and verification of analog circuits, preferably using the Cadence Virtuoso environment, including their use for simulation, parasitic extraction, electromagnetic modelling, EM/IR and reliability analysis as well as LVS and DRC
- Self-motivated, a strong sense of ownership and responsibility with good verbal and written communication skills and a team player
- Ability to manage and complete designs to schedule using defined design process flows as well as reporting design status to internal management team
Requirements
- The candidate should have a Master's or Ph.D. degree in Electronics or other relevant fields
- Minimum 5 years of experience in analog design and layout of key circuits in multi-gigabit serial data-link transceivers or RF multi tone communications such as equalizers, clock generators, clock and data recovery circuits, TISAR ADC’s, serialisers and output drivers etc.
- Expertise in design and layout of high-speed circuits such as oscillators, phase-locked loops, delay-locked loops, and other fundamental building blocks like biasing, amplifiers, buffers, regulators, filters, ADC, DAC etc.
- Experience with modern semiconductor process technologies, preferably in finFet technology nodes
- Experience using Ocean, MDL or equivalent to automate analog design verification is highly desirable
If this is the role you have been looking for and want to be part of a growing company with an exciting future, we would really love to hear from you. Together We Kandou It!
Visit us at www.kandou.ai and https://www.linkedin.com/company/kandou-ai/
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What We Do
Founded in 2011, Kandou is the innovative leader in high-speed, energy efficient, chip-to-chip link solutions critical to the evolution of the electronics industry. Kandou enables a better-connected world by offering disruptive technology through licensing and standard products that empower the devices we use every day to become smaller, more energy efficient and more cost effective. Kandou has a strong IP portfolio that includes Chord™ signaling, which has been adopted into industry specifications by JEDEC and the OIF. These innovations and implementations deliver a fundamental advance in interconnect technology that lowers the power consumed and improves the performance of chip links, unlocking new capabilities for customer devices and systems. Kandou is a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland with offices in Europe, North America and Asia.
