High Speed SerDes System Engineer

High Speed SerDes System Engineer

 NXP Semiconductors Belgium is seeking an High-Speed SerDes System engineer to specify high-speed data communication interfaces, ensuring cutting-edge performance and reliability for our next-generation breakthrough IC products. Our preferred candidate is a System engineer with prior work expertise in SerDes specification, modeling, architecture and IP definition.

Job Responsibilities:

• System Specification of High-Speed Semiconductor IC products - Linear Redrivers, Retimers, Transceivers and SerDes products
• End to end System modeling, simulation and performance analysis including losses, crosstalk, jitter, mode conversion, non-linearity, circuit noise, etc.
• Close Collaboration with silicon and package designers to satisfy SI, PI and EMI requirements
• Competitive Technical Analysis and Benchmarking
• Contribute to intellectual property generation through patent disclosures and technical publications
• Providing expert advice on design guidelines and solutions to SoC partners and customers
• Prepare subsystem specifications, system and application test plans, application notes, etc.
• Provide application support and technical training for key customers and field application engineers

Job qualifications

• Master’s or PhD degree in Electronics/Electrical/Communication engineering
• 3+ years of SerDes Design and/or System Engineering experience
• Good knowledge in high-speed serial links & SerDes technologies and Signal Integrity analysis of 20G/32G/64G NRZ and PAM interfaces – e.g. PCIe, USB4, HDMI, Ethernet, Custom SerDes etc. 
• Familiar with behavioral modeling of transceiver blocks (FFE, CTLE, DFE, CDR, PLL, PGA, Digital filters, etc.)
• Proficient with High-Speed Signal Integrity simulation assessment using ADS or HFSS or similar
• System level modeling and analysis experience in MATLAB/Simulink or Mathematica or similar
• Hands-on experience in extracting S-parameters or lumped models from packages and PCBs, and assessing the performance in frequency and time domains using simulation tools
• Experience using lab equipment for high-speed characterization – VNA, TDR, real-time scope, spectrum analyzer, etc.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills, ability to work with cross-functional teams and can-do attitude

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