R&D Analog IC Design Engineer

Analog IC Design Engineer Mid to Senior, research and productization 4-7 years

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The job description

Tech stack. Research prototyping, novel circuit architectures, silicon test chips, measurement-driven iteration, Cadence Virtuoso, Python/MATLAB analysis, publication

About the role

You will join the advanced research group of a semiconductor company, the team that prototypes the circuit architectures products will ship three to five years from now. Your work lives on test chips and measurement benches rather than product tapeouts, but every experiment is aimed at a product need. This role matters because the company's future differentiation is invented here: your prototypes decide which bets the product roadmap can place. Not every research bet pays off, but the ones that do reshape the product line for a decade.

What you will achieve

Deliver silicon-proven research prototypes that demonstrate step-function improvements in power, precision, or bandwidth over the state of the art
Drive at least one architecture per year from concept through test-chip measurement, with results that directly inform product roadmaps
Cut research cycle time by building fast-turnaround test-chip methodologies: shared shuttles, reusable measurement setups, and rapid analysis
Publish or patent your breakthroughs, building the company's technical reputation while protecting its IP position
Partner with product teams to transfer proven concepts, staying involved through the first product tapeout that adopts your architecture
Build measurement and analysis infrastructure that lets the whole research group iterate faster and share results cleanly
Maintain a research portfolio with balanced risk: steady incremental wins alongside ambitious long-shot architectures

What you will bring

Must-haves

4-7 years of analog IC design with a record of novel circuit work: test chips, publications, patents, or shipped differentiating products
Strong research instincts: you identify the fundamental limit in a problem and design experiments that test it directly
Deep circuit creativity across at least two analog domains (converters, references, amplifiers, power, high-speed)
Proficiency in Cadence Virtuoso and Spectre plus strong data-analysis skills in Python or MATLAB for measurement work
Excellent technical writing for papers, patents, and internal research reports that influence roadmap decisions
Comfort with ambiguity: you define your own success criteria and pivot when silicon disagrees with theory
M.S. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent research depth demonstrated by publications and prototypes

Nice-to-haves

University collaboration experience or an active presence in the circuits research community (ISSCC, VLSI Symposium, JSSC)
Experience with emerging devices or processes: GaN, photonics integration, or cryogenic CMOS
Prior technology-transfer work moving research concepts into shipping products