Analogue RF IC Designer for EM Simulation Tasks
- Canada
Full-time
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- Job type
- Full-time
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
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What They'd Do
Final rate depends on qualifications, expertise, experience, and location
- Write new eval tasks where a model designs one passive on-chip component to a spec (e.g., a spiral inductor with a target inductance, quality factor and area), then simulates it and iterates.
- For each task, write the spec, a reference design that meets it and an automatic check that re-simulates the submitted layout and compares the results with the spec.
- Start with a pilot of 5 tasks, then iterate with us before scaling.
- Hands-on RF IC design, including laying out passives (e.g., spiral inductors, transformers and baluns, transmission lines, coupled resonators, quadrature hybrids).
- Has run EM simulations on their own layouts and can read the results (e.g., S-parameters, inductance and quality factor).
- Works with GDS layouts and S-parameter files.
- Enough Python to script simulations and write the checks.
- Experience with IHP SG13G2 or another open PDK (our test chip is a 24 GHz radar receiver front end on SG13G2).
- The open-source tools we use: KLayout, Palace, openEMS, ngspice, scikit-rf. We can share our container (IIC-OSIC-TOOLS).
- Commercial EM solvers (e.g., Cadence EMX or Ansys HFSS).
- SPICE simulation of RF blocks (e.g., a low noise amplifier), which we'd like to cover later.
Final rate depends on qualifications, expertise, experience, and location
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Responsibilities
Develop evaluation tasks for designing passive on-chip components to specifications, including reference designs and automated checks that re-simulate submitted layouts. Complete an initial pilot of five tasks and refine the approach before scaling.
Requirements
Candidates must have hands-on RF IC design experience, including passive layout, and experience running and interpreting electromagnetic simulations on their own layouts. They must be able to work with GDS layouts and S-parameter files and use Python to script simulations and checks; experience with open PDKs or commercial EM solvers is an advantage.
Skills
- RF IC Design
- Passive Component Layout
- Electromagnetic Simulation
- GDS Layouts
- S-Parameter Analysis
- Inductance and Quality Factor Analysis
- Python Scripting
- Reference Design Development
- Automated Simulation Checks
- Spiral Inductors
- Transformers and Baluns
- Transmission Lines
- Coupled Resonators
- Quadrature Hybrids
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Categories
- Engineering
- Technology
- Science & Research
Keywords
- RF IC Design
- Electromagnetic Simulation
- Passive On-Chip Components
- Spiral Inductors
- Transformers
- Baluns
- Transmission Lines
- Coupled Resonators
- Quadrature Hybrids
- GDS
- S-Parameters
- Inductance
- Quality Factor
- Python
- IHP SG13G2
- Open PDK
- KLayout
- Palace
- openEMS
- ngspice
- scikit-rf
- IIC-OSIC-TOOLS
- Cadence EMX
- Ansys HFSS
- SPICE
- Low Noise Amplifier
- 24 GHz Radar Receiver