Principal Electrical Engineer

Principal Analog Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Develops new product ideas, architects and develops ICs that meet market requirements.
• Acts as a technical chip lead, manage chip and block schedule as needed to ensure on time tape out.
• Communicates with cross functional/inter disciplinary team as needed to make sure the team is aware of the assumptions and progress made by the design team.
• Develops innovative new designs for patenting or protecting as trade secrets.
• Mentors team members and works with them to make sure high-quality designs are produced.
• Reports on design results through design reviews and weekly status meetings.
• Attends design reviews to provide input and learn from other designer’s work.
• Research design techniques through technical publications and seminars.
• Develops scripts needed for automating design verification and thoroughly verifies their work before closing the task out.
• Responsible for custom layout including overseeing the work of layout designers.
• Works on bench characterization of silicon as needed to prove block/chip performance and to find issues with silicon.
• Helps recruit and grow the team, contribute to team building activities.

Requirements:

• Minimal Bachelor with 10 years of experience / Master with 12 years of experience or PHD with 8 years of experience
• Knowledge of MOS transistors and analog circuit design
• Knowledge of complex AC/DC analysis (poles, zeros, compensation), loop dynamics and feedback systems
• Knowledge of device physics and CMOS/BiCMOS fabrication processes.
• Previous design experience with complex analog and mixed signal design blocks.
• Knowledge in signals, systems and transforms.
• Understanding of the end to end design flow from product definition to high volume manufacturing
• Understanding of layout tradeoffs for performance and size