Senior Analog Mixed Signals Engineer - Data Converters Expert

What You'll Do

• Architect, design, and verify state-of-the-art ADCs, DACs, reference circuits, sampling networks, clocking circuits, calibration functions, and supporting analog building blocks.
• Take end-to-end technical ownership of complex circuit blocks or complete data converter IP, from initial concept and architecture trade-offs through layout, silicon validation, and IP release.
• Lead a small technical team of analog, mixed-signal, digital, and layout engineers, providing technical direction, coordinating activities, reviewing results, and driving the team toward agreed quality, performance, and schedule objectives.
• Translate system and product needs into clear IP specifications, performance budgets, interface definitions, verification plans, and integration requirements.
• Develop robust solutions that meet demanding requirements for performance, power, area, noise, linearity, bandwidth, reliability, and testability across process, voltage, temperature, aging, and mismatch variations.
• Develop scalable and configurable data converter architectures while maximizing the reuse of circuits, models, verification environments, documentation, and design knowledge across NXP product lines.
• Lead design reviews and independently drive technical decisions, risk mitigation, and the resolution of complex design, layout, verification, and integration issues.
• Collaborate with system architects, product-line representatives, SoC teams, digital designers, layout engineers, verification engineers, and test engineers to ensure successful IP integration, qualification, and silicon bring-up.
• Drive innovation and contribute to technical roadmaps, patents, coaching, and continuous improvement of engineering practices.
• Your Profile Master’s or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Microelectronics, Integrated Circuit Design.
• Minimum of 12 years of industry related experience, ideal candidate has 15+.
• Extensive professional experience in analog and mixed-signal IC design, with substantial hands-on expertise and passion for high-performance ADC and/or DAC development.
• Proven ability to independently architect, design, verify, and debug complex analog and mixed-signal circuits from specification through silicon validation.
• Strong understanding of data converter fundamentals, converter architectures, calibration techniques, signal-chain budgeting, and power-performance-area optimization.
• Hands-on experience with converter architectures such as SAR, pipeline, sigma-delta, time-interleaved or hybrid ADCs, and current-steering, voltage-mode, or other advanced DAC architectures.
• Strong experience with full-custom analog design and verification tools, preferably including Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre, ADE Explorer/Assembler, AMS, MATLAB, Python, and SKILL.
• In-depth understanding of high-performance analog layout, advanced CMOS technologies, PVT and mismatch analysis, reliability, and post-layout verification.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, ownership, and communication skills, including the ability to lead a small technical team, guide designers, coordinate multidisciplinary activities, and collaborate effectively across sites.
• Your Contribution You combine deep analog and mixed-signal circuit expertise with a strong understanding of data converter architectures and system-level requirements.
• You independently drive technically challenging assignments from concept to silicon-proven implementation and can lead a small technical team toward successful delivery.
• Beyond your own designs, you provide technical direction, coach engineers, coordinate multidisciplinary activities, and help teams make robust technical decisions.
• You are motivated to create not only solutions for individual projects, but also scalable architectures, reusable IP, and engineering knowledge that strengthen NXP’s data converter capability across product lines.
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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