Principal Engineer, Analog/Mixed-Signals Design (PMU)

Principal Engineer, Analog/Mixed-Signals Design (PMU)

 In this role, you will be partnering with a team of cross functional engineers to develop novel SoC products for connectivity and communications. This position has high visibility and impact on the success of the project and may also oversee a team of RFIC design engineers.

InnoPhase IoT offers several office locations in CA and a hybrid remote/office work environment providing an excellent balanced workplace for a results-oriented individual committed to continuous improvement, learning, and collaboration. This position can be based either in San Diego (preferred) or in San Jose.

Key Responsibilities:

• Technical leadership in developing integrated custom analog, and mixed signal IPs.
• Hands on contribution on all aspects of the design of high-performance power management and biasing related CMOS integrated circuits.
• Focus on the design and implementation of on-chip high-output-current DCDC power converters.
• Integrating and validating 3^rd party IPs.
• Supervising layout activities and performing post-layout LPE simulations and analysis.
• Working closely with RF, analog, digital, test, and firmware design engineers.
• Presenting to peers and management.
• Working with the System Engineers to derive block level specifications based on target product requirements.
• Run behavioral model simulations to study system performance and drive block-level specifications (Matlab, VerilogA).
• Partnering with the System and Digital Engineers to design and validate methods and algorithms to alleviate circuit impairments by calibration, compensation, pre-distortion, and various other techniques.
• Assisting Test Engineers on the design of comprehensive test plan, including defining, developing, and ramping up production ATE solutions.
• Participating in post-silicon bring-up, detailed performance characterization, optimization, and debug including the use of lab instruments.

Job Requirements:

• MSEE minimum, PhD preferred.
• 12 years of hands-on experience in high-performance Analog and Mixed Signal IC design in advanced CMOS processes.
• Excellent technical knowledge of CMOS devices and circuit fundamentals.
• Hands on experience in transistor-level design of the power management and biasing related high-performance circuits, such as: DCDC buck converters, LDOs, bandgap voltage and current references, OpAmps, XTAL and RC oscillators, frequency multipliers, POR, comparators, etc.
• Experienced in optimization for active power consumption, quiescent current, noise, PN/jitter, start-up time, area, etc.
• Good familiarity with IC layout, full IC design flow and verification.
• Strong intuitive, analytical, and problem-solving skills, strong initiative, attention-to-detail, highly organized, and personal commitment to quality.
• Familiar with using various development tools: Cadence Virtuoso suite, Calibre, PVS, Matlab, MS Office, etc.
• Team player with a strong sense of urgency to meet product timeline.
• Ability to work well on multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to work well on multi-site teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills, including the ability to articulate and explain circuit and system design decisions for both internal design documents and external reports or proposals.

Desirable Skills:

• Direct experience in IoT, WiFi and Bluetooth products, circuits, and systems.
• On-chip SIMO DCDC power converter design.