Senior Analog IC Design Engineer

Medtronic•Mounds View, MN

1d•$108,000 - $162,000•Onsite

About The Position

Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. This position is part of the integrated Mixed-Signal ASIC team, contributing to the implementation and innovation of cardiac pacing, defibrillation, and monitoring therapies. Designers on this team need to understand how their work impacts the end user, a patient, with opportunities to connect work to patient outcomes. Medtronic brings bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first. This role is based in Mounds View, MN, and requires a minimum of 4 days a week onsite. This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship; applicants must be authorized to work in the country of employment without sponsorship. As a Senior Analog IC Design Engineer, you will work on Medtronic's next generation of Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) products, involved in requirements definition, design exploration and implementation, simulation analysis, circuit evaluation and verification, physical design, lab testing, production test, and other tasks in the development of implantable cardiac devices.

Requirements

BS in Electrical or Electronic Engineering or related field
Minimum 4 years of experience developing and designing analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits
Or minimum 2 years of experience developing and designing analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits with an advanced degree.
Or PhD with 0 years of experience
For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

Nice To Haves

MS in Electrical or Electronics Engineering.
Ultra-Low power and subthreshold design methodologies.
Thorough knowledge of semiconductor materials, devices, and fabrication.
Experience with high-voltage and switch-mode power electronic devices and applications.
Expertise in Cadence analog design tools.
Experience using Cadence EDA analog and mixed-signal tools.
A thorough knowledge of analog and mixed-signal IC design methodologies.
Demonstrated experience navigating multi-variable tradeoff considerations typical of analog designs with ability to coach others on the same.

Responsibilities

Specify, develop and design analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits as an individual contributor and through coaching of peer and less-experienced teammates.
Define direction for circuit innovation and changes through gathering and reduction of requirements or needs from product, project, systems, test, research, or firmware engineering.
Foster communication and collaboration across teams and supporting departments.
Take ownership and responsibility for design(s) through the entire development cycle from concept through release to production.
Create schematics and verification simulations within Cadence EDA tools.
Develop and maintain simulation testbenches using Spectre and ADE to verify functionality and ability to meet specifications over PVT variations.
Integrate test strategy into design for highly testable ICs or built-in self-test architectures.
Integrate designs into Mixed-Signal, AMS, modeling simulations supporting chip-level verification.
Translate circuit requirements into layout directions that drive signal integrity, matching, thermal, etc.
Direct and review IC layout activities within Cadence Layout tools.
Create parasitic extraction of physical design and perform impact analysis.
Specify, direct and perform design characterization and verification of ICs and electronic modules.
Develop, configure, and run complex characterization tests using test and measurement equipment and other lab tools including LabView and Python for automation.
Conduct concept, preliminary, critical and fracture reviews to ensure device quality, capability and functional requirements.
Review EDA tool vendor offerings with focus on improving existing processes or methods.