Senior Staff Analog Engineer — High-Voltage Precision ICs

Renesas Electronics; California (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Renesas Electronics seeks an Analog Senior Staff Engineer – High-Voltage Analog/Precision to join our CMSD R&D team. You will design and verify complex analog blocks for custom mixed-signal ASICs, perform feasibility studies, and compare competitor solutions to propose differentiating approaches.

You will drive the layout quality, work with DFT, participate in design reviews, and document your results while contributing to silicon characterization and production ramp activities.

Qualifications

• Fully competent in all common aspects of analog design.
• Design experience in motor driver (DC, stepper, BLDC).
• Design experience in power management circuits and exposed to high voltage (BCD process).
• Design experience in data acquisition and processing systems such as ADC, DAC and current sensor is a plus.
• Knowledge of modelling analog circuits and reviewing AMS simulations.
• Strong competence in EDA design tools and the Cadence design environment.
• Concise and precise communication and presentation skills within a multi-site and multi-cultural environment.
• Human relations skills are important to convince others based on technical knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Specify and design CMOS circuits meeting performance, area, power, and timescale constraints.
• Run analog/mixed signal verification simulations at block and/or chip level.
• Collaborate with project leads to achieve system and design strategy for custom ASICs.
• Guide the layout team to ensure quality of layout of own designs.
• Produce high-quality documentation for the designed circuits.
• Work closely with DFT engineers to ensure alignment to DFT strategy and implementation.
• Drive silicon debugging and design characterization.
• Support and participate in lab evaluation and characterization for own designs.
• Work with test and product engineers to support test development and ramp to production.
• Take a proactive approach to driving your own development plan, utilizing team members, and internal development opportunities.
• Participate and have a consulting function in design reviews.
• Review IC design, evaluation, characterization and test results.
• Schedule tasks and report progress to the project leader, identify possible project problems

Skills

Analog design

Motor driver design

Power management

Data acquisition

AMS simulations

Cadence

EDA tools

Communication skills

Education

MSEE + 10 years of experience in analog and mixed-signal design

Tools

Cadence

EDA tools

Job description

Renesas Electronics seeks an Analog Senior Staff Engineer – High-Voltage Analog/Precision to join our CMSD R&D team. You will design and verify complex analog blocks for custom mixed-signal ASICs, perform feasibility studies, and compare competitor solutions to propose differentiating approaches.

You will drive the layout quality, work with DFT, participate in design reviews, and document your results while contributing to silicon characterization and production ramp activities.