Principal Analog Mixed-Signal Engineer
SiTime
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Rijswijk • 🇳🇱 Netherlands
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Lead
About the role
- The Principal Analog Mixed-Signal Engineer will be responsible for lead and supervise circuit design and chip development projects.
- Define device and circuit architectures for next-generation products.
- Design circuit blocks for future products.
- Review circuits and architectures to ensure high quality designs.
- Propose improvements and implement methodologies for IC development.
- Develop precision timing circuit architectures, design innovative circuits with aggressive technical performance specifications, performing transistor-level design and simulations.
- Plan and execute circuit designs that address demanding frequency stability, phase noise and power consumption, silicon die area specifications.
- Perform technology, architecture, circuit design, and parametric design trade-offs to accomplish spec-compliant designs.
- Ensure first-pass success on Analog CMOS circuit solutions, fully leveraging SiTime’s innovative MEMS technology offerings.
- Collaborate with Digital Design Engineers, CAD, Systems Engineering, ATE Engineering and Applications teams to design chips with DFT, DFM, achieve rapid silicon bring-up and fast time-to-production release.
- Deploy robust design methodology and ensure comprehensive design reviews.
- Supervise and guide Senior Analog Circuit Designers.
- Supervise Analog Circuit Physical Design Layout and edit layouts.
- Perform post-layout parasitic-extraction and back-annotated simulations to validate design across Process, Voltage, Temperature.
- Perform requisite Monte Carlo Analysis on key circuits to ensure Six-Sigma quality and yields.
- Participate in bring-up of silicon prototypes.
- Initiate Design-of Experiments for Root Cause Analysis, investigate anomalous observations in silicon across PVT conditions, and propose solutions.
- Drive other projects as needed by management or as business needs change.
Requirements
- MS Degree in Electrical Engineering, PhD preferred.
- Minimum 10 years of high-performance analog circuit design experience.
- Proven track record at each stage of the following:
- 1. Circuit Architecture development and technical feasibility studies
- 2. Design partitioning for phase noise / power budgeting
- 3. Writing detailed block-level specifications
- 4. Detailed design, test bench development, and simulation of basic analog building blocks and one or more of the following:
- ADCs, DACs, Temperature Sensors, PLL, high-speed Operational Amplifiers, On-chip Regulators, Band gap Circuits.
- Expert-level experiential knowledge of architecting and implementing ultra low-jitter, power-efficient Frac-N PLLs.
- Experiential knowledge of ultra-low phase-noise design, power supply noise considerations, device matching, parasitic extraction, signal integrity, ESD.
- Supervision of Junior and Senior Analog Design Engineers.
- Supervision of layout and editing of critical blocks.
- Chip-level design and verification of complex mixed-signal chips.
- Chip validation, Characterization, Qualification, adherence to production release to production.
- 3 years of prior lead/supervisory/managerial experience preferred.
Benefits
- comprehensive and highly competitive compensation package designed to attract top talent.
- quarterly bonus tied to the achievement of innovation goals.
- equity grants, providing a meaningful opportunity to share in the company’s future growth and success.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
analog circuit designcircuit architecture developmenttransistor-level designtiming circuit architecturesdesign of experimentsMonte Carlo analysishigh-speed operational amplifiersADCDACPLL
Soft skills
leadershipsupervisioncollaborationproblem-solvingcommunication
Certifications
MS Degree in Electrical EngineeringPhD in Electrical Engineering