Principal Analog Design Engineer

NXP Semiconductors • Chandler, AZ

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Working in the Advanced Power Systems group of the Power and Energy business line, the candidate will be part of a team developing PMICs for auto and industrial applications. The role involves architecting designs of next-generation PMICs and leading these designs throughout the development stages until production. Key challenges include defining IC architecture and leading technical execution from design, verification, and validation of mixed-signal PMICs for automotive and industrial applications, ensuring all technical deliverables meet performance, quality, reliability, and safety requirements. Based on product and system requirement specifications, the candidate will create and maintain the IC architecture, partitioning it into subsystem and interface specifications that support automotive and industrial power management solutions. The role requires leading the analog design aspects of product development, driving architecture definition, circuit implementation, and validation for high-performance PMICs used in automotive and industrial systems. This includes leading the design and development of analog and mixed-signal circuits for DC-DC converters, such as error amplifiers, voltage and current references, compensation networks, current sensing circuits, protection circuits, gate drivers, startup circuits, and power sequencing functions. Ensuring compliance with automotive and industrial standards, addressing challenges related to power efficiency, robustness, functional safety, thermal performance, and long-term reliability is crucial. Collaboration with digital, system, validation, and application teams is essential to deliver scalable power management solutions for automotive and industrial customers. The position also involves aligning with customers and product definers to set the right product targets for automotive and industrial PMIC solutions, supporting test and quality teams during the product development cycle, and working with other team members to build design knowledge and continuously improve PMIC development methodologies.

Requirements

• MSEE required
• Minimum 10 years of experience in the development of mixed signal ICs
• Familiar with integrated circuit electronics including device level physics, particularly analog system and transistor level circuit design
• Expert in DC-DC architecture and Design
• Experience with the Cadence design tools: Virtuoso, Spectre, AMS etc
• Creative thinker with helicopter view, capable of finding an appropriate solution to complex problems
• Good communicator in both oral and written English
• Team player, able to work in a cross-functional-team environment

Nice To Haves

• >5 years as architect or technical leader
• Experience power management designs is highly desirable

Responsibilities

• Define IC architecture and lead technical execution from design, verification, and validation of mixed-signal PMICs for automotive and industrial applications.
• Create and maintain IC architecture, partitioning it into subsystem and interface specifications.
• Lead the analog design aspects of product development, driving architecture definition, circuit implementation, and validation.
• Lead the design and development of analog and mixed-signal circuits for DC-DC converters.
• Ensure compliance with automotive and industrial standards, addressing challenges related to power efficiency, robustness, functional safety, thermal performance, and long-term reliability.
• Collaborate closely with digital, system, validation, and application teams.
• Align with customers and product definers to set the right product targets.
• Support test and quality teams during the product development cycle.
• Work with other team members to build design knowledge and continuously improve PMIC development methodologies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal