Senior Principal IC Design Engineer (GNSS) — Hybrid

u-blox AG; Thalwil; Hybrid; CHF 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Multinational team

Hybrid working model

International projects

Learning & career dialogue

Bonus plan

Job summary

u-blox is seeking an experienced Senior Principal IC Design Engineer to coordinate the development and delivery of integrated circuits for next-generation GNSS applications.

You will provide overall leadership across the chip program, aligning architecture, design, verification, implementation, dft, production test, characterization and validation activities to achieve product, quality, schedule, and cost objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Microelectronics, or related discipline.
• Significant industry experience delivering IC development from requirements through tape-out and production release.
• Experience leading a chip or major IC subsystem across multiple engineering disciplines in a semiconductor setting.
• Ability to influence without direct authority and drive decisions across cross-functional teams.
• Broad understanding of IC architecture including analog/mixed-signal, RF, digital, verification, physical design, DFT, test, packaging, and silicon validation.
• Familiarity with GNSS receiver concepts and constraints of low-power, high-performance wireless products.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated chip development plan from concept through tape-out and design completion.
• Align all technical domains on chip-level requirements, interfaces, priorities, and milestones.
• Translate GNSS product objectives into a coherent chip execution strategy with respect to performance, power, area, cost, quality, and schedule.
• Work with project managers and line managers to build plans, resolve dependencies, and identify resource needs.
• Provide overall technical direction at chip level while delegating detailed leadership to Team Leads and experts.
• Facilitate architectural and implementation trade-offs across subsystems with timely, documented decisions.
• Drive verification, modelling, mixed-signal simulation, physical implementation, sign-off, and validation for first-silicon success.
• Maintain the chip-level risk registry and ensure mitigation actions are tracked and executed.
• Communicate program status, key decisions, risks, and recovery plans to engineering leadership.

Job description

u-blox is seeking an experienced Senior Principal IC Design Engineer to coordinate the development and delivery of integrated circuits for next-generation GNSS applications.

You will provide overall leadership across the chip program, aligning architecture, design, verification, implementation, dft, production test, characterization and validation activities to achieve product, quality, schedule, and cost objectives.