Principal IC Design Engineer - Analog

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

About the role

At Medtronic, our ASICs contribute to human welfare by restoring health and extending life; it's part of our Mission. We have an integrated Mixed-Signal ASIC team contributing to the implementation and innovation of cardiac pacing, defibrillation, and monitoring therapies. This means our designers need to understand and participate in the big picture of how their work impacts the end user, a patient. Opportunities to meet doctors and witness implants directly connect our work to patient outcomes and lives.

Our team is working on Medtronic's next generation of Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) products, supported by our designers through roles including requirements definition, design exploration and implementation, simulation analysis, circuit evaluation and verification, physical design, lab testing supporting characterization and formal verification, production test, and other tasks in the development of implantable cardiac devices.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. This position will be based in Mounds View, MN.

Responsibilities

• Specify, develop and design analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits as individual contributor and through coaching of peer and less-experienced teammates.
• Define direction for circuit innovation and changes through gathering and reduction of requirements or needs from product, project, systems, test, research, or firmware engineering.
• Foster communication and collaboration across team and supporting departments.
• Take ownership and responsibility for design(s) through entire development cycle from concept through release to production.
• Create schematics and verification simulations within Cadence EDA tools.
• Develop and maintain simulation testbenches using Spectre and ADE to verify functionality and ability to meet specifications over PVT variations.
• Integrate test strategy into design for highly testable ICs or built-in self-test architectures.
• Integrate designs into Mixed-Signal, AMS, modeling simulations supporting chip-level verification.
• Translate circuit requirements into layout directions that drive signal integrity, matching, thermal, etc.
• Direct and review IC layout activities within Cadence Layout tools.
• Create parasitic extraction of physical design and perform impact analysis.
• Specify, direct and perform design characterization and verification of ICs and electronic modules.
• Develop, configure, and run complex characterization tests using test and measurement equipment and other lab tools including LabView and Python for automation.
• Conduct concept, preliminary, critical and fracture reviews to ensure device quality, capability and functional requirements.
• Review EDA tool vendor offerings with focus on improving existing processes or methods.

Requirements

• BS in Electrical or Electronic Engineering or related field with minimum 7 years of experience designing analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits
• Or minimum 5 years of experience designing analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits with an advanced degree
• Or minimum 3 years of experience designing analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits with a PhD
• For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required

Qualifications

• MS in Electrical or Electronics Engineering
• Experience using Cadence EDA analog and mixed-signal tools
• Thorough knowledge of analog and mixed-signal IC design methodologies
• Demonstrated experience navigating multi-variable tradeoff considerations typical of analog designs with ability to coach others on the same
• Ultra-Low power and subthreshold design methodologies
• Thorough knowledge of semiconductor materials, devices, and fabrication
• Experience with high-voltage and switch-mode power electronic devices and applications
• Expertise in Cadence analog design tools
• Expertise with quality and statistical methods
• Medical Device experience preferred

Benefits

Medtronic offers a competitive salary and flexible benefits package. A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions, and they share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

• Health, Dental and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
• Life insurance, Long-term disability leave
• Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement
• Simple Steps (global well-being program)
• Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
• Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program
• Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
• Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)

Pay

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD): $140,000.00 - $210,000.00. This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP). The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location.

Schedule

This role requires working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite in Mounds View, MN.