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SerDes / Analog Mixed-Signal IC Design Engineer

About Us

At StarIC, we’re not just building circuits; we’re shaping the future of technology. As a Toronto-based semiconductor design company, we thrive on creativity, collaboration, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Our passion lies in analog and mixed signal design, where precision meets innovation.

Why StarIC?

• Exciting Projects: At StarIC, you won’t be working on mundane tasks. Instead, you’ll dive headfirst into cutting-edge projects that redefine the industry.

• Learning Culture: We believe in continuous growth. As part of our team, you’ll learn quickly and have the opportunity to teach others.

• Global Impact: Our advanced mixed-signal Integrated Circuits reach clients worldwide, making a tangible impact on technology.

• Collaboration: Co-work with layout, digital, and system teams to optimize designs and create exceptional solutions.

• Client Engagement: Discussions and presentations with clients keep us at the forefront of IC design.

Qualifications We’re Seeking

• Education: Minimum of a Masters or PhD in Electrical Engineering with a focus on IC design.

• Experience: 3+ years of design experience, including knowledge of CTLE, DFE, ADC, DAC, oscillators, PLLs, and more.

• SerDes/High-Speed Expertise: If you’ve tackled a SerDes or high-speed circuit design (>10GS/s), that’s a significant asset.

• Silicon Proven: Multiple silicon designs taped out with measured results? You’re our kind of engineer.

• SOI or FinFet Know-How: Experience in SOI or FinFet process nodes? Even better.

• Coding Skills: Comfortable with scripting, programming, and tools like Matlab/Simulink and Python.

• Team Player: Excellent communication, presentation skills, and a strong team player.

• Location: Strong preference for those eligible to work within Canada.

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive Compensation: We value your expertise and offer highly competitive pay.

• Great Work Environment: StarIC is a growing company with a fantastic work atmosphere.

• Hybrid Work: This position is eligible for hybrid work, giving you flexibility.

• Integrated Circuit Design Experience: Only applicants with multiple IC tapeouts will be considered.

Ready to Shape the Future?

If you’re passionate about analog and mixed signal design, reach out to us! Let’s create something extraordinary together.

Ready to take your career to new heights? Send your resume to hr@staric.ca and seize the opportunity to join our trailblazing team at StarIC! We look forward to hearing from you

Senior Digital Design Engineer

Why StarIC?

• Exciting Projects: At StarIC, you won’t be working on mundane tasks. Instead, you’ll dive headfirst into cutting-edge projects that redefine the industry.

• Learning Culture: We believe in continuous growth. As part of our team, you’ll learn quickly and have the opportunity to teach others.

• Global Impact: Our advanced mixed-signal Integrated Circuits reach clients worldwide, making a tangible impact on technology.

• Collaboration: Co-work with layout, digital, and system teams to optimize designs and create exceptional solutions.

• Client Engagement: Discussions and presentations with clients keep us at the forefront of IC design.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leading and managing digital development and design projects

• Responsible for all aspects of digital blocks and ICs development to meet product requirements from the initial concept, architecture and specification through to the final verification

• Responsible for all phases of the design cycle (specification, modeling, RTL, verification, synthesis, timing closure, vector generation and simulation, lab testing, layout support and documentation).

• Plan, lead and execute incremental updates and maintenance of existing digital designs, test systems, and supporting software and scripts

• Plan, conduct and contribute to design reviews, provide input to characterization and qualification test systems, and support backend design targeting silicon, FPGAs, and system simulators

Qualifications:

• BSc or MSc degree in Electronic Engineering or Computer Engineering

• 3 – 6 years of digital IC design experience (academic work will be considered)

• Experience in VHDL and/or Verilog design and simulation

• Front-End tools experience (Synopsys, Cadence and/or Mentor’s) and flow experience are highly desired including verification, simulators, synthesis, STA, back-annotation and gate-level simulation.

• Experience with backend tools and flow and floor planning or coordinating with the backend team is essential.

• Experience with DSP algorithms and building blocks is a strong plus.

• Hands-On experience with scripting (csh, Tcl/Tk, Perl,… etc).

• Ability to work with global, cross-functional teams.

• Having project management skills is a plus.

• Good analytical and debugging skills.

• Highly motivated and independent

• Excellent command of English verbal and written communication skills

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive Compensation: We value your expertise and offer highly competitive pay.

• Great Work Environment: StarIC is a growing company with a fantastic work atmosphere.

• Hybrid Work: This position is eligible for hybrid work, giving you flexibility.

• Integrated Circuit Design Experience: Only applicants with multiple IC tape-outs will be considered.

Ready to Shape the Future?

If you’re passionate about digital design, reach out to us! Let’s create something extraordinary together.

Principal Silicon Photonics / Analog / Mixed-Signal Design Engineer (TIA / Driver / CMOS / SiPho / RF)

Join Our Innovative Team: Analog & Mixed Signal Design Engineers Wanted!

About Us

At StarIC, we’re not just building circuits; we’re shaping the future of technology. As a Toronto-based semiconductor design company, we thrive on creativity, collaboration, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Our passion lies in analog and mixed signal design, where precision meets innovation.

Why StarIC?

• Exciting Projects: At StarIC, you won’t be working on mundane tasks. Instead, you’ll dive headfirst into cutting-edge projects that redefine the industry.

• Learning Culture: We believe in continuous growth. As part of our team, you’ll learn quickly and have the opportunity to teach others.

• Global Impact: Our advanced mixed-signal Integrated Circuits reach clients worldwide, making a tangible impact on technology.

• Collaboration: Co-work with layout, digital, and system teams to optimize designs and create exceptional solutions.

• Client Engagement: Discussions and presentations with clients keep us at the forefront of IC design.

About the role

You'll be working on state-of-the-art TIA and Driver designs for silicon photonics applications operating at very high speeds. The blocks will be integrated with photonics elements to build a high-speed electro-optical system. You'll be responsible for active circuit development, design, and sign-off in a technical leadership role.

Qualifications We’re Seeking

• Education: Minimum of a Masters or PhD in Electrical Engineering with a focus on IC design.

• Experience: 3+ years of design experience, including knowledge of Optical front-end receivers and transmitters (TIAs, Drivers), CTLE, DFE, ADC, DAC, oscillators, PLLs, and more.

• Photonics design: (PD, MRM, MZ elements) experience a significant asset

• SerDes/High-Speed Expertise: If you’ve tackled a SerDes or high-speed circuit design (>10GS/s), that’s a significant asset.

• Silicon Proven: Multiple silicon designs taped out with measured results? You’re our kind of engineer.

• EIC / PIC: Co-design and co-simulation of photonics and electronics experience a big plus

• SOI or FinFet Know-How: Experience in SOI or FinFet process nodes? Even better.

• Coding Skills: Comfortable with scripting, programming, and tools like MATLAB/Simulink and Python.

• Team Player: Excellent communication, presentation skills, and a strong team player.

• Location: Strong preference for those eligible to work within Canada.

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive Compensation: We value your expertise and offer highly competitive pay.

• Great Work Environment: StarIC is a growing company with a fantastic work atmosphere.

• Hybrid Work: This position is eligible for hybrid work, giving you flexibility.

• Integrated Circuit Design Experience: Only applicants with multiple IC tape-outs will be considered.

Ready to Shape the Future?

If you’re passionate about analog and mixed signal design, reach out to us! Let’s create something extraordinary together.

Principal Project Manager

At StarIC, we’re not just building circuits; we’re shaping the future of technology. As a Toronto-based semiconductor design company, we thrive on creativity, collaboration, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Our passion lies in analog and mixed signal design, where precision meets innovation.

Why StarIC?

• Exciting Projects: At StarIC, you won’t be working on mundane tasks. Instead, you’ll dive headfirst into cutting-edge projects that redefine the industry.

• Learning Culture: We believe in continuous growth. As part of our team, you’ll learn quickly and have the opportunity to teach others.

• Global Impact: Our advanced mixed-signal Integrated Circuits reach clients worldwide, making a tangible impact on technology.

• Collaboration: Co-work with layout, digital, and system teams to optimize designs and create exceptional solutions.

• Client Engagement: Discussions and presentations with clients keep us at the forefront of IC design.

Required Experience:

• 5+ years of project management experience in high-speed ASIC design

• Managing multiple mixed-signal projects from initial design to customer delivery

• Collaboration with design teams and all stake holders

• Extensive schedule and project management experience working with Agile/scrum flow with proven experience in an on-time manner

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive Compensation: We value your expertise and offer highly competitive pay.

• Great Work Environment: StarIC is a growing company with a fantastic work atmosphere.

• Hybrid Work: This position is eligible for hybrid work, giving you flexibility.

• Integrated Circuit Design Experience: Only applicants with multiple IC tapeouts will be considered.

Ready to Shape the Future?

If you’re passionate about analog and mixed signal design, reach out to us! Let’s create something extraordinary together. Ready to take your career to new heights? Send your resume to hr@staric.ca and seize the opportunity to join our trailblazing team at StarIC! We look forward to hearing from you

Hardware Design Engineer

Description

StarIC is a leading provider of high performance mixed-signal design services and IP. Focused on the growing markets of custom ASICs and optimized electronic systems.

We are seeking experienced Hardware Design Electrical Engineer to join our dynamic and growing team! We are looking for someone who is driven to succeed, and loves to solve problems.

As a Hardware design electrical engineer, your responsibilities include designing the layout of the unit to incorporate the appropriate components, making recommendations to improve existing designs, and overseeing the actual manufacturing of these products to ensure they meet industry and company standards.

The successful candidate will take full advantage of learning opportunities and be comfortable and confident engaging with both business-oriented clients and technical team members.

We are committed to building a highly effective team that each member loves to be part of. As part of that team, you will be expected to learn quickly and teach often. If you think you would be a good fit, and are eligible to work in Canada, please apply today by submitting a current resume to hr@staric.ca

We're looking for someone who:

• Has a genuine curiosity about how things work. Willing to ask tough questions in order to ensure you understand why

• Has a passion for collaboration, with a demonstrated ability to develop and lead small teams

• Possesses highly effective communication strategies between clients and team members

• Is able to discuss and analyze requirements as needed

• Shows a high level of critical thinking to strategize optimizations and improvements within the team

• Can experience testing designed circuits in the lab

• Has a complex understanding to optimize developments including performance, features, NRE time, BOM, size, power consumption, customer expectations.

• Has the ability to estimate a power consumption, product size, performance expectations from data-sheets

Qualifications & Skills:

• 5+ years’ experience designing and constructing complex electrical products in positions of increasing responsibility

• Knowledge of low noise analog signal routing and interfacing

• Experience performing circuit simulation with SPICE

• Strong familiarity with PCB design, fabrication, and bring up

• PCB layout expertise

• Familiarity with microcontroller architecture

• Knowledge of embedded systems and instrumentation development

• Experience with firmware development on ARM

• Familiar with Python programming and Matlab simulations

• Off the shelf DC/DC converter design and implementation

• Comprehensive lab skills and hands-on with hardware

• Experience maintaining signal integrity and EMC

• Touch-up soldering skills will be required during testing

• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills and ability to learn quickly in a dynamic, fast-paced, and multi-disciplinary environment

• Strong working knowledge of electrical PCB design software: Altium preferred

• High degree of ethical standards and trustworthiness

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• Ability to work with minimal supervision

StarIC is a growing company with a great work environment. We offer highly competitive compensation and benefits. This position is eligible for remote working. We look forward to hearing from you!

Kindly e-mail your resume to hr@staric.ca

We look forward to hearing from you!

Senior Physical Design / Layout Engineer

Description: 

We are looking for talented engineers to join our team and help grow our physical design team. StarIC is looking for someone to fill a senior role who will be responsible for developing and expanding our physical design team.

Key responsibilities for the role include:

• Development and conceptualization of design layouts for key analog/mixed-signal designs

• EMIR, DFM, Parasitic analysis and optimization

• Interaction with analog/mixed-signal and digital designers to ensure optimal layout and floorplans

• Project management, and task delegation

• Script creation/management for flow optimization

• Contribute to design flow

• Management of on-site and off-site resources

• Discussions and knowledge transfer with clients on layout/floorplan requirements

Qualifications:

• Minimum of a Bachelors degree in Electrical or Computer engineering

• 3+ years of experience

• Multiple tape-out experience in advanced technology nodes is a must

• High-speed layout experience a significant asset

• SOI / FinFet based experience a significant asset

• Experience working in Cadence design flow

• Strong communication skills and able to work well in a team environment

StarIC is a growing company with a great work environment. We offer highly competitive compensation and benefits. We are prioritizing those applying from within Canada, this position is eligible for remote working. We look forward to hearing from you!

Kindly e-mail your resume to hr@staric.ca

We look forward to hearing from you!