Director, Analog Design

Analog Devices•Austin, TX

About The Position

As Director of Analog Design in the Digital Business Unit, the role leads a small team of analog engineers developing critical analog IP for complex system-on-chip (SoC) products. It combines hands-on technical depth with people leadership, portfolio execution, and cross-functional influence to deliver oscillators, ADCs, DACs, PLLs, power-management circuits, and low-power architectures from concept through high-volume production. The director owns delivery of analog and mixed-signal IP for Digital Business Unit SoCs, from architecture and specification through schematic design, verification, layout, characterization, qualification, and production release. The role guides SoC architecture, design quality and signoff, low-power strategy, IP reuse, project execution, silicon validation, and production problem solving. It also contributes to product and technology roadmaps and builds organizational capability through hiring, coaching, performance management, and succession planning.

Requirements

Demonstrated success leading, coaching, and retaining a small team of analog or mixed-signal IC designers, setting expectations, and developing future technical leaders.
Deep knowledge of transistor-level design and mixed-signal integration in CMOS SoCs, with expertise in several areas such as oscillators, ADCs, DACs, PLLs, clocking, references, regulators, power management, and low-power circuitry.
Ability to translate product requirements into analog specifications, partition functions across analog, digital, firmware, and test domains, and make power-performance-area-cost tradeoffs.
Strong understanding of power domains, sequencing, retention, power gating, standby and wake-up behavior, leakage reduction, and mixed-signal operation across dynamic supply conditions.
Mastery of SPICE-based simulation, statistical and corner analysis, noise and stability analysis, extraction, layout review, DRC/LVS, reliability, and design-for-test considerations.
Proven ability to plan and deliver multiple IP and SoC programs, manage priorities and dependencies, assess risk, and drive decisions under schedule and resource constraints.
Ability to align analog, digital, verification, physical design, systems, test, applications, process, packaging, and firmware teams without relying solely on direct authority.
Track record of leading bring-up, characterization, yield improvement, failure analysis, and resolution of complex technical issues through production.
Ability to connect technology choices and staffing investments to product roadmaps, customer value, portfolio priorities, and business outcomes.
Clear, credible communication with engineers, senior leaders, customers, and partners, including concise technical reviews and executive-level recommendations.
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
Typically 15+ years of relevant analog IC design experience, including substantial experience with CMOS SoC development.
Demonstrated success delivering multiple complex analog or mixed-signal products from definition and architecture through tape-out, silicon validation, qualification, and high-volume production.
Hands-on design depth in multiple relevant areas such as oscillators, ADCs, DACs, PLLs, references, regulators, power management, and low-power design.
Experience with analog/digital interface definition, behavioral modeling, mixed-signal verification, physical-design collaboration, and top-level SoC integration.
Proven record of building teams, developing engineers, improving design methodology, and delivering through changing priorities and constrained resources.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
Prior direct people-management experience leading a small analog design team; experience managing senior technical contributors is strongly preferred.
Evidence of technical innovation through successful products, reusable IP, patents, publications, or recognized contributions to analog and mixed-signal design.

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a small analog design team by setting priorities, coaching engineers, building technical depth, and fostering accountability, collaboration, and career growth.
Own delivery of analog and mixed-signal IP for Digital Business Unit SoCs from architecture and specification through schematic design, verification, layout, characterization, qualification, and production release.
Direct the design of SoC functions including oscillators and clock references, ADCs, DACs, PLLs and clock-generation circuits, power-management blocks, monitors, biasing, reset, and low-power control circuitry.
Drive system-level architecture and partitioning, balancing performance, power, area, cost, schedule, reuse, manufacturability, and product risk across analog and digital boundaries.
Establish robust practices for specifications, modeling, simulation, layout, verification, and signoff across process, voltage, temperature, aging, mismatch, noise, and parasitic variation.
Partner with digital design, verification, physical design, systems, product, test, applications, process, packaging, and firmware teams to define interfaces, power intent, clocking, reset, calibration, trim, testability, behavioral models, and silicon bring-up plans.
Lead low-power design strategy, including power-domain partitioning, power gating, retention, sequencing, dynamic power reduction, standby modes, wake-up behavior, and analog performance during supply transitions.
Manage execution across multiple projects and IP developments by allocating resources, tracking milestones and dependencies, identifying technical and staffing risks, and driving timely closure of critical issues.
Guide IP reuse and methodology improvement through scalable architectures, documentation, design automation, verification approaches, and lessons learned that improve quality and predictability across SoC programs.
Support silicon validation and production, leading root-cause analysis and corrective action for complex lab, yield, reliability, and customer issues.
Influence product and technology roadmaps by translating business and customer needs into analog capability plans, investment priorities, and differentiated SoC solutions.
Build organizational capability through hiring, performance management, succession planning, mentoring, and effective use of internal and external design resources.