Internship

Analog/Mixed-Signal SerDes Design Engineer

Posted on 8/2/2026

Deadline 6/10/27
AMD

AMD

10,001+ employees

Designs and sells processors, GPUs, accelerators

No salary listed

Markham, ON, Canada + 2 more

More locations: Ottawa, ON, Canada | Vancouver, BC, Canada

Hybrid

Hybrid work arrangement indicated.

Category
Hardware Engineering (1)
Required Skills
Circuit Design
MATLAB

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Requirements
  • A BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering.
  • Experience designing and simulating analog/mixed-signal circuits for SerDes links, including ADC, DAC, CTLE, PLL, and clocking circuits.
  • Hands-on experience with CMOS circuit design using advanced technology nodes.
  • Proficiency with computer-aided design tools for simulations and design implementation.
  • Experience designing wireline and optical transceiver building blocks.
Responsibilities
  • Define circuit architectures optimized for high-bandwidth electrical and optical links.
  • Perform link-level simulations in MATLAB and/or SPICE to prove the architecture.
  • Design and model on-die radio-frequency passive components, such as inductors and capacitors, and/or optical structures.
  • Design circuit components, including DAC, SAR ADC, sample-and-hold, analog front-end, PLL, reference generation, and clock distribution, required to implement the architecture in an advanced FinFET process.
Desired Qualifications
  • Strong circuit-design experience in high-speed SerDes.
  • Good communication skills.
  • A strong problem-solving approach.

AMD is a semiconductor company that designs and sells processors, graphics cards, and accelerators for a range of customers, including data centers, AI developers, and enterprises. Its products include Ryzen CPUs for desktops, EPYC CPUs for data centers, and Radeon GPUs for gaming and professional visualization. AMD also offers the ROCm software stack and Instinct accelerators to boost AI and machine learning performance. The company earns revenue from hardware sales, technology licensing, and software that optimizes hardware performance. AMD differentiates itself through a broad portfolio that combines high-performance CPUs, GPUs, and AI accelerators, along with software ecosystems that optimize compute workloads. Its goal is to provide scalable, efficient computing power for gaming, data centers, and AI workloads while pursuing responsible corporate practices.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Santa Clara, California

Founded

1969

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What believers are saying

  • MI300 adoption by cloud providers strengthens AMD’s AI server position.
  • Ryzen AI and EPYC support consumer upgrades and data center share gains.
  • Open software and broad silicon portfolios deepen customer stickiness across workloads.

What critics are saying

  • NVIDIA’s CUDA ecosystem keeps hyperscalers anchored to Blackwell deployments.
  • Intel’s Xeon and Gaudi competition pressures AMD pricing in servers.
  • TSMC dependency constrains supply if leading-edge capacity tightens or shifts.

What makes AMD unique

  • AMD pairs EPYC CPUs with Instinct GPUs for integrated AI deployments.
  • ROCm software targets open, rapid AI development across enterprises and developers.
  • Xilinx brings FPGA and adaptive computing breadth beyond CPUs and GPUs.

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