We are seeking a Director / Senior Director – Analog Design with 14+ years of industry experience to lead and scale our analog design team in Bangalore.
The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise in analog/mixed-signal IC design, architecture, circuit design, simulation, verification, and silicon bring-up. The candidate will provide technical leadership, drive customer engagements, mentor senior engineers, and establish best-in-class analog design methodologies and processes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the Analog and Mixed-Signal Design organization and provide technical direction across multiple projects.
- Own analog design programs from specification, architecture, circuit design, simulation, layout collaboration, verification, tape-out, and silicon validation.
- Drive architecture and design decisions for high-performance analog and mixed-signal blocks.
- Provide technical leadership in areas such as:
- PLL/DLL and clocking circuits
- Bandgap references and LDOs
- Amplifiers and operational amplifiers
- Sensor interfaces
- Analog front-end circuits
- Mixed-signal interfaces
- Review circuit architectures, schematics, simulation results, and design methodologies.
- Drive PVT, Monte Carlo, mismatch, noise, stability, reliability, and corner analysis.
- Work closely with Analog Layout, Physical Design, RTL, Digital Verification, DFT, STA, and System teams to ensure successful SoC integration.
- Lead technical reviews, design sign-offs, and risk assessments.
- Drive design quality, schedule adherence, and successful tape-out and silicon bring-up.
- Develop and improve analog design methodologies, flows, and best practices.
- Mentor and develop senior engineers, technical leads, and architects.
- Build and scale a high-performing analog design organization.
- Participate in customer discussions, technical presentations, project planning, and solution definition.
- Support business development by providing technical inputs for proposals, estimations, and new customer engagements.
- Identify technical risks early and develop mitigation strategies.
- Stay current with emerging analog, mixed-signal, semiconductor, and advanced-node technologies.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 14+ years of relevant experience in Analog / Mixed-Signal IC Design.
- Strong expertise in CMOS analog circuit design and semiconductor development.
- Proven experience leading analog design teams and complex chip development programs.
- Strong understanding of analog circuit architectures, transistor-level design, simulation, and verification.
- Hands-on experience with industry-standard analog design tools such as:
- ADE
- Calibre or equivalent verification tools
- Strong knowledge of SPICE simulation and circuit analysis.
- Experience with advanced semiconductor process technologies is highly desirable.
- Strong understanding of analog layout considerations and circuit-layout interaction.
- Experience with silicon validation, debugging, characterization, and post-silicon analysis.
- Strong knowledge of analog design fundamentals including noise, mismatch, stability, device modeling, parasitics, PVT variation, and reliability.
- Experience in leading cross-functional teams and working with global customers.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, presentation, and people-management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to build and lead a strong analog engineering organization.
- Ability to operate at both strategic and hands-on technical levels.
- Strong ownership and accountability for technical execution.
- Ability to influence architecture and design decisions across multidisciplinary teams.
- Strong customer-facing and stakeholder-management capabilities.
- Ability to mentor senior technical talent and develop future technical leaders.
- Experience managing multiple projects, priorities, and customer deliverables.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with FinFET / advanced-node technologies.
- Experience in automotive, networking, high-performance computing, consumer, or connectivity SoCs.
- Experience with high-speed analog/mixed-signal design.
- Previous experience as Analog Design Manager, Group Manager, Architect, Senior Principal Engineer, Associate Director, or Director.
- Strong experience in customer-facing technical leadership.
- Experience building analog design teams and engineering capabilities from the ground up.