Staff Analog Mixed-Signal Design Engineer

Staff Analog Mixed-Signal Design Engineer

NOKIA

US Salary range: $139,283.72 - $258,669.77 * Plus potential incentive/variable compensation for eligible roles

United States, California, Sunnyvale

1322 Bordeaux Drive (Show on map)

Jun 16, 2025

In an increasingly connected world, the pandemic has highlighted just how essential telecom networks are to keeping society running. The Network Infrastructure group is at the heart of a revolution to connectivity, pushing the boundaries to deliver more and faster network capacity to people worldwide through our ambition, innovation, and technical expertise

Join Optical Networks division, where innovation meets scale in the AI-driven data center era. With the recent acquisition of Infinera, we've united two industry leaders to create an optical networking powerhouse-combining cutting-edge technology with proven leadership to redefine the future of connectivity.

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Design, implement, and simulate the functionality and performance of high resolution data-converters including DACs and ADCs;

Design, implement, and simulate the functionality and performance of other various low power, low noise analog circuits such as band-gap and reference circuits, opamps and output buffers;

Craft layout floor plans to optimize the overall performance; Supervise the layout activities and give concise guidelines to layout engineers, need to be hands-on in drawing layout if necessary;

Develop the analog testing plans and work with the PE/TE teams to characterize the functionality and performance of the products to ensure the quality;

Need to comply with the team's design methodologies and release flows.

Must be extremely familiar with essential CAD tools, such as Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre, Layout and Layout-XL, Mentor AFS and Calibre.

Must have a proven tracking record of designing data-converters and taking them to production;

Must have a good understanding of standard CMOS as well as high-voltage technologies (e.g. BCD) analog / mixed-signal design methodologies and circuit analysis;

Must have a good understanding of ESD protections;

Must have a good understanding of device physics and the impacts of layout effects;

Able to perform the behavioral modeling of the blocks and circuits with Verilog-A or Verilog-AMS;

Collaborative with other local or remote team members in a professional environment.

Fluent in verbal and written communications;

Capable of coaching and mentoring new or junior circuit designers and layout engineers;

Independently resolves issues and conquers design challenges;

Self-motivated and detail-oriented.

Education and Experience Requirements:

Staff Design Engineer: M.S. in E.E. with 8+ years experience, or Ph.D. in E.E. with 8+ years experience

Principal Design Engineer: M.S. in E.E. with 12+ years experience, or Ph.D. in E.E. with 12+ years experience

Come create the technology that helps the world act together

Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people's lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world.

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