Principal 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 life-critical 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.
• Demonstrate industry recognition of technical accomplishments in the form of patents and/or published articles.

Physical and Travel Requirements

• Regularly required to be independently mobile.
• 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.