Senior Analog Design Engineer - California, Santa Clara, United States
$141,910 - $269,100 USD yearly
Originally posted 16 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves the architecture, design, implementation, and validation of high-speed analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits for advanced optical interconnect products.
What you'll do
- Architect, design, implement, and validate high-speed analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits for optical interconnect products.
- Define circuit architectures to meet power, performance, and functionality requirements for optical interconnects.
- Lead block-level design and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams for integrated circuit components.
- Plan and execute design activities balancing performance, schedule, and quality.
- Guide the development of post-silicon test and characterization plans.
- Create and maintain comprehensive design documentation, including specifications, reviews, and technical reports.
What you'll need
- M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field with 4+ years of industry experience or PhD & 2+ years.
- Hands-on experience designing high-speed circuit blocks such as amplifiers, drivers, equalizers, PLLs, phase interpolators, and clock and data recovery (CDR) circuits for data rates of 32 Gbps and above.
- Experience designing inductors, transmission lines, transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs), and optical modulator drivers.
- Strong expertise in high-speed serial link design and analog CMOS/BiCMOS circuit design using deep-submicron process technologies.
- Experience with full-chip integration, ESD design considerations, and verification methodologies.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with optical communication systems.
- Experience developing 400G, 800G, and 1.6T optical links.
- Experience with package design and test setup development.
- Experience designing precision analog circuits such as ADCs and DACs.
- Experience with PAM4 and NRZ link architectures.
- Strong understanding of mixed-signal design methodologies and flows.
Skills: silicon photonics, optical interconnects, high-speed analog, mixed-signal ICs, amplifiers, drivers
This role has been open 18 days — well below the 67-day median for Optical/Photonics IC Design roles.
Optical/Photonics IC Design · Photonics
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Open roles in category
133
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Median days open
67 d
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Median salary
$195k
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| Metric | Intel Corporation | All employers we track in this specialty (133 roles · 33 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 6 | 133 |
| Median days open | 48 d | 67 d (−19 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $195k |
Skills observed across this category: silicon photonics, optical interconnects, high-speed analog, mixed-signal ICs, amplifiers, drivers
Who's hiring in this category
- Lightmatter · 18 open roles · median 81 d
- GlobalFoundries · 16 open roles · median 67 d
- Coherent Corp · 15 open roles · median 75 d
- Lumentum · 9 open roles · median 62 d
- Keysight Technologies · 7 open roles · median 31 d
- Marvell Technology · 7 open roles · median 151 d
How we counted: 133 open Optical/Photonics IC Design (Photonics) roles from 33 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 5 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.