High Speed Circuit & System Architect

CA Pay Range (Annual):

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At Infinera, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. Your actual base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. This role may be eligible for equity grants, discretionary bonuses, or commission payments. The amount of these incentives is based on the terms of the Company’s incentive plans, the Company’s financial performance, and/or individual employee job performance.

Infinera also offers paid leave, medical, 

dental, and vision coverage, 401(k), life, and disability insurance and to

eligible employees.

Infinera is the global supplier of innovative networking solutions. Our customers include the leading service providers, data center operators, internet content providers (ICPs), cable operators, enterprises, and government agencies worldwide, including 9 of the top 10 Tier 1 service providers and 6 of the top 7 ICPs. We design, develop, and deliver hardware and software for fiber-based connectivity solutions that span access, aggregation, metro, long haul, and submarine networks. Our industry-leading, trendsetting edge-to-core solutions provide the foundation for many of the world’s largest and most demanding networks that generate billions in service revenue for our customers.

The successful candidate shall possess abundant experience in designing complex DSP for communication systems. She/he shall also have decent knowledge in analog/mixed-signal circuitry to perform the modeling and optimization of the overall high-performance front ends for communication SoCs.

Imagine being part of a team that is fundamentally changing the way people communicate, the way they collaborate, the way they watch TV and explore the universe through the internet. Utilizing our uniquely differentiated technology, we have created an Intelligent Transport Network with more speed, capacity and scalability than ever before. Imagine a world with unlimited bandwidth. The network of tomorrow will allow for content and creativity limited only by the imaginations of its users.
If this is something that interests you, that excites you, come take a look at a team not bound by large company obstacles and bureaucracy, where an idea today can be set in motion tomorrow. Come take a look at Infinera!

Engaging in architectural design of the high-speed, high-performance analog / mixed-signal circuit and systems, you have the chance to create the technical differentiation for Infinera to hold the market leadership. We together will revolutionize the era of efficient high-speed transmission.

Essential Functions and Key Responsibilities:

• Model the circuit blocks and mixed-signal IPs, including but not limited to high-speed ADCs, DACs, CTLE, FFE, and PLLs, to work with the circuit design expert to achieve the best performance trade-offs.
• Design the equalization and calibration algorithms to optimize the overall system performance.
• Work with the circuit design team to keep track of budgeting for jitter, noise, linearity, etc., and optimize the overall system performance.
• Work with the RTL team to implement the algorithm.
• Work with the verification team to generate the adequate behavior model of the circuits to ensure the robustness of the design.

Mandatory Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Have prominent tracking record in designing and modeling high speed systems and its mixed-signal blocks, including but limited to SERDES, optical links, and wireless transmission systems.
• Extremely fluent in DSP theories and algorithms.
• Hands-on in modeling and simulating with Matlab, Simulink, and/or C, C++.
• Extensive experience in algorithms for channel equalization, CDR, channel coding, and error corrections schemes such as LDPC.
• Have a decent understanding in CMOS analog / mixed signal design.

Preferred Knowledge/Skill/Abilities:

• Able to create IBIS-AMI model.
• Can code in System-Verilog.
• Fluent in verbal and written communications.
• Independently resolves issues and conquer design challenges.
• Self-motivated and detail oriented.
• Has good interpersonal skills.

Education Requirement:

• M.S. and Ph.D. in E.E.

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Infinera is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Infinera complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.