ASIC Analog Design Engineer – High-Speed PHYs

Micron Technology, Inc.; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 106,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Micron Technology, Inc. is seeking an ASIC Analog Design Engineer to join the analog design team and shape ASICs used in tester and controller IP. The role focuses on high-speed PHYs in deep sub-micron technologies and involves circuit design, layout supervision, and silicon bring-up.

The candidate will contribute across multiple experience levels, collaborating with validation, package, board, and customers to optimize performance and reliability in state-of-the-art memory and storage solutions.

Qualifications

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering required.
• ASIC analog design experience required.
• Strong fundamental knowledge of analog and mixed-signal (AMS) design, advanced CMOS, and FinFET technologies.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Deep understanding of analog and mixed-signal circuits.
• Understanding of architectural tradeoffs in high-speed SerDes and PHYs.
• Understanding of mismatch analysis, Monte Carlo methods and simulations, transistor-level circuit noise analysis, device physics, and deep sub-micron issues.
• Experience with industry-standard tools and flows, including Cadence ADE, Spectre, AMS verification, EM/IR flows, MATLAB, and Pegasus.
• Understanding of the fundamentals of signal integrity, power delivery, and ESD.
• Interest in utilizing AI-Enabled automation to maximize design efficiency.
• Curiosity and a willingness to contribute, learn, and grow.

Responsibilities

• Be part of a highly skilled, high-speed PHY design team working on deep sub-micron technology nodes.
• Propose circuit architectures, refine electrical specifications, draw schematics, verify designs through simulation, and present designs to the design team.
• Supervise complex and/or sensitive analog layout and define block floorplans.
• Investigate parasitics to debug and resolve layout-related performance issues.
• Present complex engineering ideas to the design team and customers, explaining design choices and tradeoffs.
• Explore the design space and provide feedback on design tradeoffs, alternative circuit architectures, and specification and requirement tradeoffs.
• Align requirements and provide feedback to the package and board teams.
• Plan and participate in silicon bring-up and characterization, and correlate results with simulations.
• Work with the validation team to perform tests, analyze data, and design experiments to resolve challenging silicon debug issues.

Skills

AMS design

SerDes & PHYs

circuit noise analysis

signal integrity

communication skills

Education

B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Cadence ADE

Spectre

AMS verification

EM/IR flows

MATLAB

Pegasus

Job description

Micron Technology, Inc. is seeking an ASIC Analog Design Engineer to join the analog design team and shape ASICs used in tester and controller IP. The role focuses on high-speed PHYs in deep sub-micron technologies and involves circuit design, layout supervision, and silicon bring-up.

The candidate will contribute across multiple experience levels, collaborating with validation, package, board, and customers to optimize performance and reliability in state-of-the-art memory and storage solutions.