Director, Analog Design

• Manage, hire, and mentor a diverse team of experienced and junior Analog IC design engineers. 
• Lead, motivate, provide training, and create career growth opportunities for the team. 
• Collaborate with overseas design and systems teams on technical aspects, IP development, sharing of know-how. 
• Provide technical leadership in driving architecture design and circuit design based on high-level specifications. 
• Own technical outcome of design, verification, implementation, and execution of Power Management ICs with complexities that can span from simple regulators to complex designs, control loops, and digital interfaces. 
• Define the overall product strategy and roadmap in alignment with the company's objectives, market trends, and customer needs. 
• Understand technical aspects, best practices, and design methodologies for power management IC designs. 
• Understand project goals, create a realistic schedule and resource plan, track execution schedule to plan, monitor progress, and provide full clarity to the team on the goals and objectives. 
• Collaborate closely with the Systems team to understand system requirements and specification tradeoffs. 
• Work with cross-functional teams on program management, technology, product, test, packaging, and applications teams at all project phases. 
• Identify, recommend, and implement new systems, tools, processes, and technologies to improve design, reuse organizational processes and decision-making.

Qualifications

Qualifications: 

• BS in Electrical Engineering or related + 18 years of experience, or MS + 15 years of experience. 
• Solid track record of releasing complex ICs to market. 
• Extensive knowledge of engineering processes, principles, and methodologies. 
• Goal and outcome-focused with the ability to handle multiple projects within the team. 
• Ability to attract and retain key engineering talent.
• Experience in simplifying complex problems into smaller problems and solving them as a team. 
• Ability to clearly articulate issues, challenges, and concerns to all levels of management.
• Solid understanding of various Power Converters such as multiphase converter, current sense amplifier, SAR ADC, Buck, Boost, LDOs, and relevant Analog building blocks.
• Solid understanding of topologies and architectures for Constant-on-time, Peak, and Valley Current/Voltage Mode control mechanism, Hysteretic, Multi-Phase Controllers, and Smart Power Stages. 
• Strong Analog IC design skills, debug of complex silicon problems using simulations and/or bench testing. 
• Familiarity with advanced Bipolar, CMOS, and High Voltage BCD technology, Process, Device Physics, Semiconductor Manufacturing processes, and their impact on Analog performance. 
• understanding of large power transistor (LDMOS) Design, Layout, and Robustness. 
• Proficiency in leading-edge design and verification tools such as Simplis or MATLAB for architectural simulations, Cadence Spectre for schematic capture, simulation, layout, and tape-out. 
• Solid understanding of DC-DC PMIC/POL, Multiphase controllers, Dr. MOS, AC-DC converters, LED drivers, SiC devices and SiC drivers.