Senior Staff System Architect, Power

About the role

Vishay San Jose is currently seeking applicants for a Senior Staff System Architect, Power position. This role involves developing and expanding existing technology, providing innovative solutions for technical challenges, and working closely with management and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Development of system models and architectures to drive next generation digital power management solutions.
• Definition and specification of advanced architectural circuits and systems for next generation products to satisfy product and market requirements.
• Selecting and specifying key product building blocks.
• Supporting the delivery of architecture from modelling through to functioning silicon.
• Development and maintenance of detailed system models to match silicon performance.
• Correlation of models with existing and proposed IC databases to facilitate IC design and verification activities.
• Extensive interaction and collaboration with product definers and IC design.
• Documentation of architectures and results, and maintenance of them as necessary.
• Interaction with applications engineering for debug, simulation, and resolution of customer difficulties.
• Able to work to schedule.

Requirements

• PhD, post-graduate, or degree qualification in Electronic Engineering or similar.
• 10+ years’ relevant engineering experience.
• 2+ years of people management experience with a design team.
• 5-10% travel between Vishay locations, or to customers.
• Prior experience in System Architecture (preferred with patent history and/or publication record).
• Extensive expertise in control theory and digital signal processing.
• Experience developing architectures for digitally controlled power management IC’s.
• Experience and knowledge of power conversion products and topologies (buck, buck-boost, boost, PMIC, VR…).
• Good understanding of IC design is highly desirable to facilitate architectural trade-offs based on feasibility of implementation, and for the creation of achievable electrical circuit specifications.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a co-operative/collaborative manner are required.

Qualifications

• PhD, post-graduate, or degree qualification in Electronic Engineering or similar.
• 10+ years’ relevant engineering experience.
• 2+ years of people management experience with a design team.
• 5-10% travel between Vishay locations, or to customers.
• Prior experience in System Architecture (preferred with patent history and/or publication record).
• Extensive expertise in control theory and digital signal processing.
• Experience developing architectures for digitally controlled power management IC’s.
• Experience and knowledge of power conversion products and topologies (buck, buck-boost, boost, PMIC, VR…).
• Good understanding of IC design is highly desirable to facilitate architectural trade-offs based on feasibility of implementation, and for the creation of achievable electrical circuit specifications.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a co-operative/collaborative manner are required.

Skills

• System Architecture (preferred with patent history and/or publication record).
• Control Theory and Digital Signal Processing.
• Power Conversion Products and Topologies (buck, buck-boost, boost, PMIC, VR…).
• Matlab, Simplis or other system modelling environments.
• IC Design.

Benefits

• Comprehensive suite of benefit programs including health care coverage, financial support programs and other resources.
• Unique career paths.
• An open and collaborative culture.
• A stable business that will be there for you.
• Opportunities to work globally and locally.

Pay

Competitive compensation package.

Schedule

Full-time position.