Principal Analog Design Engineer

About the role

Architect, design, and verify CMOS analog blocks for custom ASICs to meet stringent performance, area, power, and timeline constraints. Blocks include Tx, Rx, PLL, and miscellaneous high-precision analog circuits.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize high-speed DDR I/O interfaces, ensuring signal integrity, noise immunity, and compatibility with industry standards.
• Serve as principal liaison between the Analog Design Team and Verification/Validation/Test teams. Analyze silicon ATE/bench data against product specifications using Excel, MATLAB, or scripts to extract actionable insights from large datasets.
• Collaborate closely with digital design engineers, systems engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure seamless integration of analog and digital components.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers, contributing to the development of best practices and design methodologies.
• Conduct comprehensive simulations and testing to validate design performance and reliability, addressing issues and implementing corrective actions as needed.
• Create detailed design documentation, including specifications, schematics, and design reports, ensuring compliance with internal and external standards.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies, proposing and implementing innovative solutions to enhance product performance with a focus on low-power circuit design.
• Ensure designs meet electromigration (EM), IR drop, and aging requirements.
• Ensure layouts meet high analog standards for matching and performance.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Electronics, Microelectronics Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 10–15 years of analog circuit design experience.
• Expertise in high-speed DDR I/O interface design and optimization, with emphasis on DDR5/DDR6 I/O architecture, client/data center server circuits, and system design/validation.
• In-depth knowledge of analog Rx/Tx design, including signal integrity and noise immunity.
• Proficiency with analog design tools (e.g., Cadence Virtuoso, Maestro, Spectre, HSPICE) and simulation techniques.
• Strong understanding of signal integrity and general analog design principles and methodologies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

About the company

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its purpose: To Make Our Lives Easier. With a global team of over 21,000 engineers and problem solvers in more than 30 countries, Renesas offers the opportunity to work on world-leading technology for Automotive, Industrial, Infrastructure, and IoT, shaping a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter future. The company’s culture, TAGIE, is grounded in being Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial.