High Speed SerDes System Engineer
- LocationLeuven; Eindhoven
- Work typeOn-site
- EmploymentFull-time
- Posted14 November 2026
- SourceNXP's careers page (Workday)
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At a glance
- Experience3+ years
- EducationMaster's degree
- Skills and toolsMATLAB
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About the role
High Speed SerDes System Engineer
NXP Semiconductors Belgium is seeking an High-Speed SerDes System engineer to specify high-speed data communication interfaces, ensuring cutting-edge performance and reliability for our next-generation breakthrough IC products. Our preferred candidate is a System engineer with prior work expertise in SerDes specification, modeling, architecture and IP definition.
Job Responsibilities:
- System Specification of High-Speed Semiconductor IC products - Linear Redrivers, Retimers, Transceivers and SerDes products
- End to end System modeling, simulation and performance analysis including losses, crosstalk, jitter, mode conversion, non-linearity, circuit noise, etc.
- Close Collaboration with silicon and package designers to satisfy SI, PI and EMI requirements
- Competitive Technical Analysis and Benchmarking
- Contribute to intellectual property generation through patent disclosures and technical publications
- Providing expert advice on design guidelines and solutions to SoC partners and customers
- Prepare subsystem specifications, system and application test plans, application notes, etc.
- Provide application support and technical training for key customers and field application engineers
Job qualifications
- Master’s or PhD degree in Electronics/Electrical/Communication engineering
- 3+ years of SerDes Design and/or System Engineering experience
- Good knowledge in high-speed serial links & SerDes technologies and Signal Integrity analysis of 20G/32G/64G NRZ and PAM interfaces – e.g. PCIe, USB4, HDMI, Ethernet, Custom SerDes etc.
- Familiar with behavioral modeling of transceiver blocks (FFE, CTLE, DFE, CDR, PLL, PGA, Digital filters, etc.)
- Proficient with High-Speed Signal Integrity simulation assessment using ADS or HFSS or similar
- System level modeling and analysis experience in MATLAB/Simulink or Mathematica or similar
- Hands-on experience in extracting S-parameters or lumped models from packages and PCBs, and assessing the performance in frequency and time domains using simulation tools
- Experience using lab equipment for high-speed characterization – VNA, TDR, real-time scope, spectrum analyzer, etc.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills, ability to work with cross-functional teams and can-do attitude
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