Principal Layout Engineer

**Locations are San Jose, CA; Richardson, TX; and Chandler, AZ**

Responsibilities:

• Layout of Power and Analog integrated circuits for the general power electronics market (mobile, industrial, consumer)
• Floor planning and concept realization of highly integrated analog/power circuits
• Top Level and block level layout designs including circuit and layout verification checks (LVS, DRC)
• Full Analogue layout design and layout size optimization of CMOS JI and SOI
• Interface and cooperation with Analog and Power IC design engineers in asia and US
• Responsibility for tape out process, data documentation and data archiving
• Independent interface with design engineering, foundry and manufacturing

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant work experience, 15+ preferred
• Background in analog power IC fundamentals and experience with integrated analog mixed-signal circuit layouts
• Understanding of semiconductor process technologies like CMOS, BICMOS JI, and SOI
• Proven designs in DC-DC converters, including bucks, boosts, and charge pumps
• Experience working with voltages in 10-60V range.
• Experience leading layout design teams
• Experience with CAD layout tools like Cadence
• Fluent in Vietnamese. (Only for San Jose location)
• Outstanding Analytical and problem-solving skills