Principal Analog Design Engineer - DC DC Architect

What You'll Do

• Define and drive system and circuit architectures for high-performance DC-DC converters and PMICs, ensuring alignment with product, performance, quality, reliability, cost, and functional safety requirements.
• Translate product and system requirements into robust analog and mixed-signal architectures, specifications, design strategies, and implementation plans for automotive and industrial applications.
• Lead architecture exploration, topology selection, and design tradeoff analysis for buck, boost, buck-boost, multiphase, and integrated power management solutions.
• Drive the design and development of critical analog and mixed-signal building blocks including error amplifiers, voltage and current references, compensation networks, current sensing circuits, gate drivers, protection circuits, oscillators, comparators, ADCs, and digital-assisted analog control functions.
• Develop control architectures and power management schemes that optimize efficiency, transient response, EMI performance, accuracy, thermal behavior, and overall system robustness.
• Collaborate closely with system, applications, digital, verification, validation, layout, and test teams to deliver optimized mixed-signal solutions that meet power, performance, area, and reliability targets.
• Lead design reviews, architecture reviews, and technical decision-making throughout the product development cycle.
• Guide transistor-level design, simulation, verification, silicon bring-up, characterization, debugging, and production ramp activities.
• Ensure compliance with automotive and industrial requirements, including reliability, diagnostics, functional safety, and robustness objectives.
• Work closely with customers, product definers, and system architects to establish product requirements, technical roadmaps, and development priorities.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to continuous improvement of design methodologies, automation flows, and engineering best practices.
• Qualifications M.S. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or related field required.
• Minimum 12 years of experience in analog or mixed-signal IC design, with at least 5 years in a technical leadership, system architecture, or principal design role.
• Strong expertise in DC-DC converter architectures and control techniques, including current-mode, voltage-mode, hysteretic, constant-on-time, and digital-assisted control methods.
• Deep understanding of analog and mixed-signal circuit design fundamentals, including feedback systems, loop stability, compensation, noise, precision references, power device behavior, and protection circuits.
• Proven experience designing automotive or industrial PMICs, voltage regulators, battery management, or power conversion products.
• Strong transistor-level design and simulation expertise using industry-standard EDA tools from Cadence, Synopsys, and Siemens EDA.
• Experience with silicon bring-up, characterization, root-cause analysis, and production support.
• Familiarity with functional safety, reliability, EMC/EMI considerations, and automotive quality requirements is highly desirable.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to develop innovative solutions for complex technical challenges.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive technical execution in a fast-paced product development environment.
• Business Line Description Join a world-class team developing state-of-the-art power management solutions for leading automotive and industrial customers.
• The Advanced Power Systems organization, part of NXP's highly successful Power and Energy Business Line, is seeking an experienced Analog Design Architect to drive the development of next-generation DC-DC converters and PMIC products.
• The Power Delivery Development Team is a small, highly skilled R&D organization focused on creating innovative power delivery solutions that address the evolving needs of automotive and industrial systems.
• Team members work closely with some of the most influential and successful companies in the industry, delivering cutting-edge technology from concept to production.
• Location: Chandler, Arizona, USA.
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• NXP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
• In addition, NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals. #LI-6692