IC Design Engineer, Analog

About the role

The elite PDX IC Design group at MSEI is seeking a Principal Analog IC Design Engineer to lead and contribute to the design and development of ultra-low-power analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits for implantable medical devices.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and hands-on contributions across all phases of product development, from early market and clinical definition through design, release, and long-term maintenance.
• Collaborate directly with system hardware, software, and clinical engineering teams, medical consultants, and IC design, test, and layout engineers across U.S. and international design centers.
• Design and develop high-performance and high-reliability ultra-low power analog but also mixed signal integrated circuits for implantable medical products.
• Design novel, robust, ultra-low power, low-voltage analog/mixed-signal IC functional blocks including but not limited to voltage/current references, operational amplifiers, comparators, switched-capacitor circuits (amplifiers, filters, charge pumps, etc.), ADCs and DACs, oscillators, switching power circuits, communication circuits, etc.
• Create behavioral models for modules and system level verification models for circuits. Perform pre-silicon verification and post-silicon validation of circuits.
• Consult with physicians, clinical research, published literature, and technology leaders on new and existing technologies, trends, and requirements for their uses.

Qualifications and Experience

• Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering (MS / PhD) with additional background in business principles with demonstrated expertise in fundamental electrical engineering, circuit, and systems principles and closed form analytical approaches.
• A self-motivated independent thinker able to apply industry research and personal experience to design proposals combined with strong verbal communications skill and strong technical document writing skills.
• 8+ years of experience in analog/mixed-signal IC design for very low power portable and/or implantable applications, with a strong grasp of the tradeoffs involved in using various analog and digital circuit design techniques (RTL or schematic based) to optimally implement system functions.
• Deep understanding of CMOS processes, device characteristics and models, transistor level circuit analysis and design concepts and trade-offs: BW, noise, power, feedback analysis, stability etc., worst case process corners, margin and Monte Carlo analysis, and design-for-test.
• Solid understanding of circuit building blocks (op-amps, comparators, voltage and current references, DACs, ADCs,) and layout techniques for ultra-low power design to deliver robust, production quality silicon designs.
• Extensive working knowledge and use of Cadence mixed signal Design tools, Virtuoso XL, Spectre, Xcelium/AMS simulators along with Maestro, and other mixed signal signoff tools for analog regression testing.
• Experience with medical domain specific designs such as neuromodulation, charging, low noise biomedical signal measurement and processing, battery energy conversion techniques, and very low power RF communication circuits.
• Experience in lab bench characterization and test-vector generation for pre-silicon and post-silicon verification, design-for-manufacturing test vector generation, production support, fault isolation and failure analysis, and pre-clinical and clinical testing environments.
• Industry recognition of technical accomplishments in the form of patents and/or published articles.
• Experience with international teams and a working knowledge of German would be highly desirable.

Physical and Travel Requirements

• The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• The employee is also required to interact with a computer for extended periods of time and communicate with co-workers.
• Must be able to work a minimum of 40 hours / week.
• Must be able to travel to other office locations.
• Must be able to travel internationally and domestically, less than 5% of the time.