Principal Analog IC Design Engineer

£75,000 - £105,000 plus Bonus and RSUs

This is an opportunity to join a successful and established company involved in enabling ground breaking technology innovations through the design of high speed Analog and Mixed Signal ICs for the optical communications market.

They currently seek a Principal Analog IC design engineer for their site located in Bristol, South West, England and in this role you will be a leading member of the design team involved in the design and layout of high performance Analog/Mixed Signal ICs and taking a technical lead role on significant chip developments.

Responsibilities:

• The Principal Analogue Design Engineer is a leading member of the design team.
• Takes the technical lead role on significant chip developments and makes key architectural decisions.
• Delivers new and innovative solutions.
• Works effectively with cross functional teams (marketing, sales, applications, product/test engineering).
• Contributes to the technical direction and policies for the wider design team.
• The principal engineer is an authority in their field and is expected to support, motivate and advise more junior engineers.
• Able to prioritise and work across multiple projects in parallel to ensure key milestones are met.

Minimum Qualifications:

Essential:

• 12+ years of relevant industry experience in Analog IC design.
• Good BSc or equivalent degree in Electronic Engineering
• Have fluent spoken and written English
• Demonstrate a deep and intuitive understanding of CMOS analogue circuit design practise
• Has taken the technical lead role on multiple chip developments
• Track record of delivering revenue generating products to market
• RF (1GHz +) analogue circuit design experience

Preferred:

• Expert user of Cadence tools (IC6) and Calibre
• Solid experience of circuit layout
• Understanding of practises for assuring device reliability and high yield (DFM)
• Can show extensive innovation in previous work (which has delivered customer solutions)
• Device modelling experience (Verilog-AMS, SystemVerilog, etc)
• Designed chips with Analog-Mixed-Signal subsystems
• Has led a large project team, and provided technical direction to the design team

Added value:

• Relevant post-graduate qualification (MSc / PhD)
• 25GHz + circuit design experience
• Project leadership experience
• Understanding of optoelectronic device physics and behaviour
• Knowledge of optoelectronic communications – standards, applications, module specification

Contact Leon at IC Resources to apply today.