Senior Staff Engineer, Analog/Mixed-Signal Design, Technology Platforms

pSemi Corporation is a Murata company driving semiconductor integration. pSemi builds on Peregrine Semiconductor's 30-year legacy of technology advancements and strong IP portfolio but with a new mission-to enhance Murata's world-class capabilities with high-performance semiconductors. With a strong foundation in RF integration, pSemi's product portfolio now spans power management, connected sensors, optical transceivers, antenna tuning and RF frontends. These intelligent and efficient semiconductors enable advanced modules for smartphones, base stations, personal computers, electric vehicles, data centers, IoT devices and healthcare. From headquarters in San Diego and offices around the world, pSemi's team explores new ways to make electronics for the connected world smaller, thinner, faster and better.

Job Summary

In this highly visible, central-engineering AMS role you will work closely with different product teams and must be capable of independently leading and executing the development of CMOS/SOI analog, mixed-signal, PMIC, and PA controller circuit blocks. You will participate in all stages of the design cycle including definition, circuit design and simulation, layout supervision, silicon evaluation and characterization.

Roles & Responsibilities

This position has responsibility for:

• Analog/Mixed-Signal IP Block and Platform Development: Work with the Product Design teams and Marketing to define IP block functionality and performance specifications. Design, develop and characterize IP blocks for reuse across multiple products.
• IP Block Characterization: Work with Characterization Engineers to define, conduct and analyze data from circuit block and product performance characterization.
• Product Capability Development: Work with Design, Marketing, Modeling and Process Technology teams to drive the definition and development of SOI process technology, modeling requirements, IP roadmaps, and product platforms to enable Product Design to rapidly build RFICs.
• Product Support: Work with Applications, Product, and Manufacturing Engineers to help answer customer questions, assess field failures, and support yield improvements. Assist Production Test Engineers to define ATE solutions for Production.
• Documentation: Document all relevant design information to educate others on IP block usage and novel design techniques.
• AMS Infrastructure: Contribute to requirements documentation, tool selection and methodology development.

Minimum Qualifications (Experience and Skills)

• Typically requires 12+ years of experience developing Analog/Mixed-Signal/PMIC circuit blocks and products depending on education level and experience
• An expert in analog / mixed-signal IC circuit design: amplifiers, opamps, references, LDO regulators, data converters, switched capacitor circuits, charge pumps, digital interfaces
• Experience in high volume, commercial CMOS ICs (bulk or SOI)
• Able to do analog/mixed-signal IC layout where needed and effectively supervise layout designers
• Strong sense of urgency to meet product requirements on schedule
• Cooperative team member, able to work effectively within the Technology Platforms department and cross functionally with other teams
• Ability to mentor junior engineers
• Hands on use of measurement equipment to validate IC performance

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with RFIC products and applications
• Knowledge of IC fabrication and how this impacts circuit performance
• Software tools: Cadence, Excel, JMP, Matlab, ADS, HFSS, Momentum

Education Requirements

• Minimum BSEE, MSEE preferred

Work Environment

This job operates on the Manufacturing Floor. This role routinely uses standard office equipment.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is required to bend and stoop for periods of time; kneeling, sitting on the floor; working on step stools and ladders; and pushing heavy equipment. This position requires the ability to occasionally lift machine components up to 30 pounds. This employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

USD 182,506.79 - 237,271.96 per year

pSemi Corporation supports a diverse workforce and is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees. pSemi does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions or breastfeeding), gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, national origin (including language use restrictions and possession of a driver's license issued under Vehicle Code section 12801.9), ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally-protected medical condition, military or veteran status (including "protected veterans" under applicable affirmative action laws), marital status, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state or federal laws applicable to the Company. pSemi also prohibits discrimination based on the perception that an employee or applicant has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.

Note: The Peregrine Semiconductor name, Peregrine Semiconductor logoand UltraCMOS are registered trademarks and the pSemi name, pSemi logo, HaRP andDuNE are trademarks of pSemi Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. pSemi products are protected under one or more of the following U.S. Patents: http://patents.psemi.com