IC Design Engineer

Be visionary Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research. We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

Teledyne LeCroy’s products need to be the fastest, cleanest and most flexible to handle the challenges of characterizing the advanced electronics being developed across the world. Teledyne LeCroy’s custom integrated circuits sit at the heart of our instruments. To make the best instruments, we need chips that perform at the edge of what is theoretically possible. To make these chips we hire the most talented and creative IC designers in the industry.

If that is you, keep reading.

The IC Designer will design custom integrated circuits primarily using Silicon Germanium BiCMOS technologies. These custom circuits will be used in Teledyne LeCroy’s oscilloscopes and probes. We pride ourselves in achieving the highest level of technical performance out of each of our designs. The IC designer will be expected to leverage a strong technical foundation and creative problem-solving skills to find new ways to tackle engaging technical problems.

The designs will encompass all aspects of oscilloscope acquisitions systems from amplification and signal conditioning to sampling, clocking and triggering.

Some examples of design characteristics are as follows:

• Precise DC accuracy
• Wideband operation from DC up to mm-wave frequencies
• Optimization of frequency responses, return losses, noise, distortion, jitter and many other signal quality characteristics
• Stability analysis
• Temperature stability
• Balancing power vs performance
• ESD protection
• Design for manufacturability and reliability

The IC Design Engineer will primarily use Cadence tools (Virtuoso, AMS, SpectreRF, Explorer, Assembler, Quantus, EMX, Physical Verification System) to complete the design tasks. Ansys HFSS may also be used. Skill and Python scripting are used heavily to improve efficiency and expose new capabilities during the design process.

The IC Designer will primarily work on chip or cell level detailed design. They will take designs from concept through tape out. Layout support will be available, but IC Designer is responsible for overseeing the layout such that their design meets all performance targets.

• 2-10 years of BiCMOS IC design experience with some or multiple tape outs, meaningful personal responsibility, and successful results.
• Recent PhD recipients with strong design and tape out experience are eligible to apply.
• BS, MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering
• Thorough understanding of fundamental circuit design concepts such as passive network analysis, bipolar devices, CMOS devices, time and frequency domain analysis, feedback, stability, transmission lines, matching, noise, distortion, compression, temperature sensitivity and sampling theory
• Thorough understanding of real-world circuit design considerations such as bipolar and CMOS device structure and limitations, thermal sensitivity, parasitics, electromigration, breakdown, ESD susceptibility and reliability
• Understanding of RF design topics such as S-Parameters and matching networks
• Proficiency with the tools we use or comparable tools (Virtuoso, AMS, SpectreRF, Explorer, Assembler, Quantus, EMX, Physical Verification System, Skill, Python, HFSS)
• Experience designing wideband circuits…