Senior Analog IC Design Engineer at MED Medtronic Inc — Mounds View, MN
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A Day in the Life
At Medtronic, our ASICs contribute to human welfare by restoring health and extending life; it's part of our Mission. We have an integrated Mixed-Signal ASIC team contributing to the implementation and innovation of cardiac pacing, defibrillation, and monitoring therapies. This means our designers need to understand and participate in the big picture of how their work impacts the end user, a patient. Opportunities to meet doctors and witness implants directly connect our work to patient outcomes and lives.
This position will be based in Mounds View, MN.
This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the country of employment without sponsorship
As Senior Analog IC Design Engineer you will be working on Medtronic's next generation of Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) products, supported by our designers through roles including requirements definition, design exploration and implementation, simulation analysis, circuit evaluation and verification, physical design, lab testing supporting characterization and formal verification, production test, and other tasks in the development of implantable cardiac devices.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Specify, develop and design analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits as individual contributor and through coaching of peer and less-experienced teammates.
- Define direction for circuit innovation and changes through gathering and reduction of requirements or needs from product, project, systems, test, research, or firmware engineering.
- Foster communication and collaboration across team and supporting departments.
- Take ownership and responsibility for design(s) through entire development cycle from concept through release to production.
- Create schematics and verification simulations within Cadence EDA tools
- Develop and maintain simulation testbenches using Spectre and ADE to verify functionality and ability to meet specifications over PVT variations.
- Integrate test strategy into design for highly testable ICs or built-in self-test architectures.
- Integrate designs into Mixed-Signal, AMS, modeling simulations supporting chip-level verification.
- Translate circuit requirements into layout directions that drive signal integrity, matching, thermal, etc.
- Direct and review IC layout activities within Cadence Layout tools.
- Create parasitic extraction of physical design and perform impact analysis.
- Specify, direct and perform design characterization and verification of ICs and electronic modules.
- Develop, configure, and run complex characterization tests using test and measurement equipment and other lab tools including LabView and Python for automation.
- Conduct concept, preliminary, critical and fracture reviews to ensure device quality, capability and functional requirements.
- Review EDA tool vendor offerings with focus on improving existing processes or methods.
Must Have: Minimum Qualifications
- BS in Electrical or Electronic Engineering or related field
- Minimum 4 years of experience developing and designing analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits
- Or minimum 2 years of experience developing and designing analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits with an advanced degree.
- Or PhD with 0 years of experience
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Nice to Have: Preferred Qualifications
- MS in Electrical or Electronics Engineering.
- Ultra-Low power and subthreshold design methodologies.
- Thorough knowledge of semiconductor materials, devices, and fabrication.
- Experience with high-voltage and switch-mode power electronic devices and applications.
- Expertise in Cadence analog design tools.
- Experience using Cadence EDA analog and mixed-signal tools.
- A thorough knowledge of analog and mixed-signal IC design methodologies.
- Demonstrated experience navigating multi-variable tradeoff considerations typical of analog designs with ability to coach others on the same.
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Benefits & Compensation
Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$108,000.00 - $162,000.00