IC Design Engineer

Prime Appointments; Chelmsford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturing company is seeking a Senior Analogue IC Design Engineer to join their New Product Engineering team. Candidates should have a strong background in analog and RF design, with experience in circuit design for high-performance IC's. This role offers a hybrid working environment with competitive benefits including private healthcare and a pension scheme.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Private Healthcare

Hybrid working available

Free onsite parking

Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in a closely related field; or proven industrial track record.
• A minimum of five years' experience of IC design.
• Successful track record of right first-time silicon.

Responsibilities

• Circuit design, implementation and verification of complete sub-systems for sub-6G IC's.
• Design of blocks such as filters and high speed multiplexers.
• Collaboration with the test team across multi sites.

Skills

Understanding of Analog and RF design concepts

Experience in IC design

Expertise with Cadence Virtuoso

Silicon experience with SiGe Bipolar

Understanding of design for manufacture

Education

Master's degree or PhD in a related field

Tools

Cadence Virtuoso

Job description

A manufacturing company who specialises in semiconductor components for high technology products are looking to recruit a Senior Analogue IC Design Engineer to work in the company's New Product Engineering team working on the design of Analogue and Mixed signal circuits.

This is a hands-on role and candidates will need to demonstrate a good understanding of basic concepts and theories in Analog and RF design, such as mismatch, linearity, stability and noise. Experience in the design of Power Management circuits, PTAT, Bandgap, VGA, Filter, TIA, PLL, or other baseband modules in BiCMOS and/or RF-CMOS processes is also required.

Benefits:

• Working in a lovely environment based in a rural setting
• 8.30 - 5.00 Monday to Friday
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Private Healthcare, Money Purchase Pension Scheme and Life Insurance
• Hybrid working available
• Free onsite parking

Duties:

• Circuit design, implementation and verification of complete sub-systems for sub-6G IC's.
• Design of blocks such as filters, high speed multiplexer, divider circuits, bias circuits, bandgap, fractional N PLL, etc
• Working with a variety of technologies including SiGe & CMOS to implement innovative high-performance IC's
• Collaboration with the test team across multi sites, you will also contribute to the development of the test plan and ASIC characterization.
• Produce detailed design documentation of all blocks developed
• Support product evaluation

Skills & Experience Required:

• Master's degree or PhD in a closely related field; or proven industrial track record
• A minimum of five years' experience of IC design
• Expertise with Cadence Virtuoso tools and version control
• Silicon experience of SiGe Bipolar and CMOS technologies
• Successful track record of right first-time silicon
• An understanding of design for manufacture
• Working knowledge of IC layout techniques in a Cadence Virtuoso environment
• Familiarisation of ESD protection techniques
• Due to location candidates must have their own transport

Please apply, if you would like to find out more about this role call Appointments