ESD & EMC Design Expert — Automotive Robustness

NXP Semiconductors; Toulouse; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 140.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

The ACC CTO ESD/EMC Team at NXP Semiconductors leads robustness initiatives and defines advanced ESD protection solutions across multiple product lines. As an ESD Design Expert, you will influence architecture and mentor engineers to shape the future ESD & EMC strategy for automotive and industrial products.

You will drive design methodologies, collaborate with EMC and technology teams, and develop AI-assisted approaches to improve robustness early in development.

Qualifikationen

• Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Microelectronics, Semiconductor Physics, or related discipline.
• 10+ years in ESD/analog IC design or ESD protection expertise.
• Experience with automotive and high-reliability semiconductor products is a plus.

Aufgaben

• Define and drive ESD protection strategies, architectures, and roadmaps for new product families and emerging technologies.
• Lead the design, optimization, and validation of advanced on-chip ESD protection solutions for analog, mixed-signal, high-voltage, and automotive ICs.
• Establish ESD design methodologies, rules, best practices, and reusable design libraries.
• Provide technical leadership during product development, balancing reliability, performance, silicon area, power, and cost.
• Drive ESD sign-off reviews and support critical design decisions across programs.
• Lead complex ESD investigations, characterization campaigns, failure analysis, and root-cause assessments.
• Partner with EMC experts to develop holistic chip and system-level robustness solutions.
• Collaborate with technology development teams to define future ESD devices and process capabilities.
• Develop advanced simulation, modeling, automation, and AI-assisted methodologies to improve design efficiency and predict robustness issues earlier.
• Act as the technical interface for customer escalations and strategic robustness challenges.
• Drive innovation through patents, publications, university partnerships, and technology research programs.
• Mentor engineers, fostering technical excellence and knowledge sharing.

Kenntnisse

ESD protection design

Analog IC design

EMC/Robustness

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Ausbildung

Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering or related

Tools

EDA simulation tools

Device modeling

Silicon debugging

Jobbeschreibung

The ACC CTO ESD/EMC Team at NXP Semiconductors leads robustness initiatives and defines advanced ESD protection solutions across multiple product lines. As an ESD Design Expert, you will influence architecture and mentor engineers to shape the future ESD & EMC strategy for automotive and industrial products.

You will drive design methodologies, collaborate with EMC and technology teams, and develop AI-assisted approaches to improve robustness early in development.