Challenges are our drive, innovation our calling. We at Kandou are a team of passionate accomplished professionals making a mark in the semiconductor industry. We're an innovative leader in high-speed and energy-efficient chip-chip link solutions critical to the evolution of the electronics industry, continuously developing to meet the demands of today's customers and tomorrow too. If you love to be part of a high-tech scale-up and are motivated by pushing your limits and challenging the status quo, we have an opportunity for you.
We are actively seeking an Signal Integrity Lead Engineer who enjoys a challenge, for our Switzerland (Lausanne) or UK office.
Responsibility and Authority
- Work with Kandou code technology developers and product teams to advise on SI solutions and issues for such codes and products
- Work with Kandou circuit designers and advise on SI solutions and issues for Kandou's silicon implementations
- Support Kandou staff in high speed signaling Standards (IEEE, OIF, memory) analysis and definitions
- Interact with Kandou customers and component suppliers on the development and analysis of hardware solutions
- Provide theoretical and simulation-based signal integrity analysis of Kandou products, test structures, and hardware solutions
- Prepare technical analysis reports for internal Kandou teams and external Kandou customers
- Evaluate the SI performance of Kandou Chord encoding systems in comparison with other systems such as PAM4, PAM8, etc
- Work with Kandou chip/circuit designers SI/PI/power solutions for package and evaluation boards
- Conduct SI/PI/power validation test and simulation to measurement correlation
- Create design specs, simulation reports, issue debug reports and validation test plan
Required Competencies – Experience
- 5+ years of experience in the semiconductor industry
- Solid background on microwave, analogue, power, and digital electronics theories.
- Strong team player, quick to pick up new things and keen learner
- Leadership experience for SI/PI teams and ability to mentor junior levels of team.
Required Competencies – Skills
- Understand the simulation/design principles for signal integrity as well as power integrity
- Versed in scripting/programming languages, including Matlab.
- Familiar with Linux based IC design environment including experience with Cadence Virtuoso.
- Experience with prevailing SI/PI simulation tools.
If this is the role you have been looking for and you want to be part of a growing Company, with an exciting future then we would really love to hear from you. Together We Kandou It!
https://www.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.
