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Senior High Speed Mixed-Signal I/O & Analog Layout Engineer
Posted: 07/01/2026
Employment Type:
Contract
Job Number: 32060
Job Location: Onsite
Industry: SEMI - Semiconductor
Job Description
Job Title: Senior High Speed Mixed-Signal I/O & Analog Layout Engineer
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Senior High Speed Mixed-Signal I/O & Analog Layout Engineer with our client located in San Jose, CA.
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Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Senior High Speed Mixed-Signal I/O & Analog Layout Engineer with our client located in San Jose, CA.
Job Description:
- As a senior high speed mixed-signal layout/analog layout engineer, you will be working with circuit designers located in San Jose, California, USA to accomplish layout tasks.
- Circuits that you will need to work on includes High Speed RX (receiver), TX (transmitters), PLL, CDR, Analog reference circuits, and so on.
- You should have experiences doing layout with sub-micron CMOS technologies.
Job Responsibilities:
- Working with remote circuit designers to determine the chip floorplan. You need to come up with strategies to optimize the parasites, reduce area, and improve High Speed SERDES/analog performance.
- You need to be able to estimate schedule and come up with plan how to get things done within a dedicated time frame.
- You should be able to read the design document provided by the foundry and figure out how to resolve issues like latch-up and DRC.
- Perform custom layout using Virtuoso, and be able to get LVS/DRC clean.
- You should be familiar with CAD tools, including Virtuoso, Calibre LVS, DRC, SkillCad and so on.
- Desired to have experience on chip level design, like bump, pad, and ESD strategies.
- Good communication skills to discuss with circuit designer.
Job Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical or computer engineering and 5+ years of professional experience as an IC layout designer; OR 8+ years of professional experience with integrated circuit layout design in lieu of a degree
- Strong High Speed SERDES/analog layout skills
- Experience in advanced nodes in IC layout, including finfet 14nm, 8nm, 4nm and 2nm GAA.
- Experience in IC layouts with frequencies up to 224Gb/s.
- Experience in critical IC layouts, including VCO, clocking circuit, TX, and RX and so on.
- Working knowledge in Linux
- Proficiency in CAD tools including Cadence Virtuoso, Calibre LVS, DRC, and SkillCad.
- Excellency in communications skills in the form of verbal, email, and in documentations.
- Be able to work independently.
- Good to have experience to lead a small team and tape-out an analog IC.
Job Details:
- Job Type: Contract
- Pay Range: $100 - $110 an hour.
- Location: San Jose, CA (Onsite).
Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.
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