At Elevate Semiconductor, our mission is to empower semiconductor and system test customers by delivering world-class test integrated circuits (ICs) that tackle the industry's most complex automated test equipment (ATE) challenges. We pride ourselves on exceeding expectations by designing the lowest power, highest density solutions to achieve the lowest possible cost of test—both today and for the future.

As a Staff Analog Design Engineer, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing team activities towards development of leading edge ATE integrated circuits. You will ensure the development of new products from idea through to successful product release meeting current and future needs of our customers.

This is full-time onsite position in San Diego, CA.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects and mentor junior designers.
• Provide technical leadership in circuit and architecture design.
• Collaborate with product and test engineering team for overall project success.
• Partner with VPs of Engineering, Operations, Sales and Finance to develop successful products efficiently and on schedule.
• Ensure commitments to customers are met and expectations are exceeded.
• Identify, recommend, and implement new systems, tools, processes and technologies to improve design, reuse, organizational processes and decision-making.
• Schematic design and simulation of circuits for high speed and precision Analog ATE circuits.
• Power efficient and high precision analog design.
• Layout preplacement and post layout simulation of circuits.
• Monte Carlo and corner analysis.
• Mixed signal simulation at chip level.
• Contribute to the development of innovative circuit architectures to optimize power, performance and density.
• Support IC characterization and test development to qualify for ATE specific parameters and use conditions.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering
• Project lead on multiple tapeouts from specification to product release
• Clearly understand details of Semiconductor design fabrication
• Agile people management and leadership skills
• Ability to attract and retain key engineering talent
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Experience in simplifying and dealing with complexity across design, project management, and organizational build out
• Solid analog CMOS circuit design fundamentals
• Solid control theory fundamentals
• Ability to design and analyze complex feedback loops
• Stability analysis and design of compensation schemes
• Ability to seamlessly interface with internal and external functions (engineering, manufacturing, application, etc.)
• Understanding of the IC design, qualification and manufacturing cycle
• Experience with industry standard analog and mixed signal EDA tools (Cadence/Mentor Graphics. LVS, DRC, and ERC using Cadence or Mentor tools.)
• Behavioral modeling of analog circuits for chip level simulation and validation
• Experience programming using Verilog, VerilogA, C, C++, Python

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD degree
• High voltage (100V+) and mixed voltage (multiple supply rails, 6 or more) design experience
• Design experience in high speed multi Gbps circuits
• Design experience with BiCMOS process technology
• ATE specific experience