Signal Integrity - Principal/Sr. Principal Engineer

Company Overview:

MACOM designs and manufactures semiconductor products for DataCenter, Telecommunication, and Industrial and Defense applications.Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, MACOM has design centers and salesoffices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. MACOM is certified to theISO9001 international quality standard and ISO14001 environmental managementstandard.

MACOM has more than 75 years of application expertise withmultiple design centers, Si, GaAs, and InP fabrication, manufacturing, assemblyand test, and operational facilities throughout North America, Europe, andAsia. Click here to view our facilities. addition, MACOM offers foundry services that represents a key corecompetency within our business.

MACOM sells and distributes products globally via asales channel comprised of a direct field sales force, authorized sales representatives,and leading industry distributors. Our sales team is trained across all of ourproducts to give our customers insights into our entire portfolio.

Signal Integrity - Principal/Sr. Principal Engineer

Job Description:

• Drive feasibility analyses at onset of product definition phase. Evaluate and specifyelectrical characteristics and performance of devices and systems to determinecompliance with appropriate regulating standards.
• Takecradle-to-grave ownership of products through hand-off to product engineeringfor production launch. This encompasses efforts to find limits of productperformance as well as debugging.
• Performdetailed modeling and electrical analysis of silicon-to-silicon physicalinterconnects. This covers all aspects of the physical interconnect in a systemcontext, including chip-scale to large-scale packaging, passive connectors andcomponents, and multi-conductor transmission lines.
• Defineand carry out experiments to validate modeling methodologies and to establishcorrelation of such to empirical data.
• Design,develop, and document interconnect solutions for internal hardware needs aswell as for customer hardware reference designs.
• Identifytechniques and methodologies for modeling and measurement of devices andsystems. Actively lead evaluations of these.

Job Qualifications:

• BS in EE and a minimum of 6 years of experience. Candidates with more advanced degrees including PhD and/or more experience are preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of test instruments, fixtures, measurements and methods.
• Detail oriented with strong fundamentals in engineering principles.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, arerequired. The candidate must possess experience in creating and executingdetailed yet effective technical presentations to internal groups as well as tokey customers.
• Proven debug skills of devices and systems is paramount to successfor this position.
• A strong understanding of basic circuit and transmission linetheory is essential, as is familiarity with and a working knowledge ofconcurrent time and frequency-domain methods of analysis and characterization.
• Programming experience is required in Matlab and C++.
• Programming experience is desired with languages such as Linuxshell, perl, TCL, etc...
• Expert-level knowledge and experience with 3D electro-magneticfield simulators such as Ansoft HFSS, with proven ability to create models ofusable bandwidth to a minimum of 100 GHz is required.
• In-depth knowledge of circuit simulation tools such as Cadence ICCraftsman, and Agilent ADS (or Ansys Designer) is a must.
• Working experience is required in Agilent SystemVue system-levelsimulator. Equivalent experience with Mathworks' SimuLink is helpful.
• Candidates should have a solid understanding of the scientificmethod and have extensive experience setting up experiments, and collectingmeasurement data using mainstream equipment used for characterizing high speedserial links - both electrical and optical. This includes: TDR, VNA, BERTs,DCAs/oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, as well as optical sources andreceivers.

The Salary Range for this position is $97,000 - $200,000. Actualsalary offered to candidate will depend on several factors, including but notlimited to, work location, relevant candidates' experience, education, andspecific knowledge, skills, and abilities.

This position is eligible to receive restricted stock unit (RSU) awards and cash bonuses, solely at MACOM's discretion, subject to individual and company performance.

Benefits: This position offers a comprehensive benefits package including but not limitedto:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Employer-sponsored 401(k) plan.
• Paid time off.
• Professional development opportunities.

EEO:
MACOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverseworkforce. MACOM will not discriminate against any worker or job applicant onthe basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation,national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, militaryservice, marital status, or any other category protected under applicable law.

Reasonable Accommodation:
MACOM is committed to working with and providing reasonableaccommodations to qualified individuals with physical and mental disabilities. Ifyou have a disability and are in need of a reasonable accommodation withrespect to any part of the application process, please call +1- oremail Provide your name, phone number and the position titleand location in which you are interested, and nature of accommodation needed,and we will get back to you. We also work with current employees who request orneed reasonable accommodation in order to perform the essential functions oftheir jobs.