Principal ASIC Design Engineer

Pay Range (Annual)

$133,000.00 - $247,000.00

At Infinera, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. Your actual base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. This role may be eligible for equity grants, discretionary bonuses, or commission payments. The amount of these incentives is based on the terms of the Company’s incentive plans, the Company’s financial performance, and/or individual employee job performance.

Infinera also offers paid leave, health coverage, Registered Retirement Saving Program (RRSP), life and disability insurance to all eligible employees.

Infinera is a global supplier of innovative, industry-leading connectivity solutions including high-end subcomponent technology, systems for network infrastructure, automation software and professional services. We have 40+ years of experience and 1900+ patents powering carrier-class products and services worldwide. Our 500 customers have systems deployed in 100+ countries across six continents, including 9 of the top 10 tier 1 operators, and 7 of the top 9 internet content providers (ICPs). We design, develop and deliver hardware and software for fiber-based connectivity solutions that span access, aggregation, metro, long haul, and submarine networks. Our industry-leading, trendsetting edge-to-core solutions provide the foundation for many of the world’s largest and most demanding networks that generate billions of dollars in service revenue for our customers.

At Infinera, we envision a connected world with unlimited bandwidth for everyone – everywhere, always and instantly. We believe developing great technology requires amazing people with the drive and passion to change the world, one innovation at a time. If you are a highly motivated individual who embraces challenging and continuous learning opportunities, who finds satisfaction and purpose being responsible for making innovative contributions to the development of next-generation of DSP/FEC mixed-signal ASICs, and you want to help build industry-leading products for the optical networking market, we invite you to join our Ottawa ASIC design team.

Principal ASIC Design Engineer

Ottawa, Canada

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a world class ASIC design team, building leading edge chips for the Coherent Optics market.
• Subsystem development in large mixed signal optical coherent DSP ASICs
• Work with system architect to define spec/micro-architecture and RTL development
• Design size/timing/power optimization via micro-architecture/RTL/Synthesis
• Layout support for quality final product and TTM
  
  

Requirements

• B.Sc. in Elec/Computer Engineering is a must, higher degrees preferred
• Minimum of 10+ years ASIC design experience
• Solid design (micro-architecture/implementation) and debugging skills
• Working knowledge of DSP/FEC and communication theories
• Strong problem solving skills
• Good verbal/written communication skills and team work
• Good knowledge of ASIC design flow/tools, with backend knowledge being a great asset
  
  

Assets

• Working knowledge of MatLab and other scripting languages
• Knowledge of OTN, CAUI and other telecom protocols
• Design Experience with ethernet standards 100G to 800G would be an asset:
• 100GE – cl45,cl49, CL82,CL91,CL119
• 200Ge ,400Ge – cl161, cl116
• 800ge – 802.df/800ETA
• PTP 1588 Standard
• Ethernet frame types
• Packet insertion/extraction
  
  

“This position requires direct or indirect access to certain confidential information, hardware, software, technology, or technical information (referred to here as “Export-Controlled Information”) controlled under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR). All personnel in this position must be eligible to or be able to obtain authorization from the appropriate agency to access applicable Export-Controlled Information. The U.S. Department of Commerce currently requires a foreign person with a most recent citizenship or permanent residency of Sudan, Ukraine, or a country currently designated in Country Group D:1, E:1 or E:2 (Supplement No. 1 to Part 740, Title 15) to have an export control license to access our Export-Controlled Information, unless they meet certain exemptions provided under U.S. export control laws and regulations. The list of applicable countries in Country Group D:1, E:1 or E:2 may be updated by the U.S. government from time to time. The current processing time for an export control license is approximately 4 to 6 months.

Your employment or engagement with Infinera shall be contingent on verifying your eligibility or requirement for obtaining a necessary license and/or authorization from the appropriate agency. You will be required to provide certain information for export control compliance assessment purposes, and your information will be reviewed by Infinera's hiring and export control teams to ensure compliance with the U.S. export control laws and regulations. Infinera will collect necessary documents (such as proof of citizenship etc.) to assess license/authorization requirements if you are offered and accept the position.”

Infinera is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Infinera complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.