Staff Engineer, Circuit Design

Micron • San Jose, CA

7d • $116,000 - $246,000

About The Position

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all . Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever. As a Staff Design Engineer in the Non-Volatile-Engineering NAND Flash design/verification team at Micron Technology, Inc., you will contribute to the development of memory products that are outstanding in terms of die size, performance, reliability, and power!

Requirements

• 7+ years on transistor level Analog and digital logic IC design experience using CMOS!
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering
• Experience designing several of these blocks: bandgap, regulator, charge-pumps, ADC, DAC, temp sensor, power detector, comparator, active filters, oscillator, custom logic.
• Responsible to translate system level specs onto the circuit block level performance spec, circuit architecture, design and development to meet the system level specs.
• Must have a thorough understanding of analog design theory, loop stability analysis, device physics.
• Proficient knowledge in memory cell read/write operations including array architecture.
• Knowledge in CMOS device physics including reliability performance.
• Standout colleague with a strong sense of urgency to meet product requirements on schedule.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering
• Experience with digital design flow (Verilog coding, RTL synthesis, logic simulation, place and route)
• Proficient knowledge in memory cell test flow.
• Layout floorplan to optimum performance, layout supervision, post layout simulations.
• Strong Lab experience to performance IC characteristic and debugging.
• Excellent Oral and written communication skill.
• Basic proficiency of Perl and/or Python coding.
• Basic proficiency of Verilog-A simulation and modeling.
• Expertise in analog/digital simulator (HSPICE, Verilog, XA, Finesim)
• Expertise in scripting language (Perl, Python, C++)
• Familiarity with Cadence design, LVS/SRC tools

Responsibilities

• Take part in multi-functional key features evaluation and recommend a decision on architecture.
• Be able breakdown functions into circuits in the analog and/or digital domain, and design, simulate, optimize, and floor plan NAND circuits
• Evaluate design feasibility and analyze circuit functionalities including product performance
• Validate design performance and functionalities by running block and chip level simulations using standard industry simulators
• Evaluate required verification coverage from design features
• Work with multi-functional teams to evaluate and analyze NAND die performance and power consumption.
• Proactively design and verify products to optimize all manufacturing function and provide the best cost, quality, root-cause analysis, reliability, time-to-market, and customer satisfaction

Benefits

• choice of medical, dental and vision plans
• benefit programs that help protect your income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury, and paid family leave
• robust paid time-off program and paid holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees