Analog Design Engineer, EU/UK/CH.

At Kandou, we are redefining the economics of AI infrastructure. Our mission is to democratise AI by significantly reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of hardware systems — a critical barrier to scalable adoption.

Our proprietary MIMO-over-copper technology powers a high-performance, chiplet-based AI memory fabric that is both scalable and energy-efficient. Unlike traditional interconnects, our solution reduces power consumption significantly while preserving high bandwidth and ultra-low latency — unlocking unprecedented efficiency for AI training and inference at scale.

Kandou’s architecture is not just an incremental improvement — it’s a foundational shift in how AI hardware is built for the future.

Job title: Analog Design Engineer

Location: EU/CH/UK

Key Responsibilities

• Position in design, modeling, and verification of custom analog designs for high-speed Serdes transceivers in advanced technology nodes


• Design and verification of analog circuits, following prescribed design and documentation flows, to meet architecture specifications


• If necessary, support and interact with customers on requirements, design specifications, performance results and product delivery


• Support analog IP and chip level integration


• Collaborate with architects, technical leads, analog and digital design, layout, integration, verification, silicon validation and quality teams as needed

Competencies 

• Skilled in the design of high speed analog serdes circuits including DFT, DFM and ESD protection, with a deep knowledge of transistor and wireline communications fundamentals


• Understanding of layout approaches and design techniques used for high-speed and high precision circuits


• Advanced user of EDA tools for design and verification of analog circuits, preferably using the Cadence Virtuoso environment, including their use for simulation, parasitic extraction, electromagnetic modelling, EM/IR and reliability analysis as well as LVS and DRC


• Self-motivated, a strong sense of ownership and responsibility with good verbal and written communication skills and a team player


• Ability to manage and complete designs to schedule using defined design process flows as well as reporting design status  to internal management team

 Requirements

• The candidate should have a Master's or Ph.D. degree in Electronics or other relevant fields


• Minimum 5 years of experience in analog design and layout of key circuits in multi-gigabit serial data-link transceivers or RF multi tone communications such as equalizers, clock generators, clock and data recovery circuits, TISAR ADC’s, serialisers and output drivers etc.


• Expertise in design and layout of high-speed circuits such as oscillators, phase-locked loops, delay-locked loops, and other fundamental building blocks like biasing, amplifiers, buffers, regulators, filters, ADC,  DAC etc.


• Experience with modern semiconductor process technologies, preferably in finFet technology nodes


• Experience using Ocean, MDL or equivalent to automate analog design verification is highly desirable

If this is the role you have been looking for and want to be part of a growing company with an exciting future, we would really love to hear from you. Together We Kandou It!

Visit us at www.kandou.ai and https://www.linkedin.com/company/kandou-ai/