Analog Circuit Design Engineer

Intel Intel · Semiconductors · Bangalore, India

Analog Circuit Design Engineer at Intel responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing high-speed analog circuits in advanced process nodes, contributing to next-generation memory interface PHYs and analog/mixed-signal IPs. Involves circuit design, simulation, validation, optimization for power/performance/area, test plan creation, collaboration with cross-functional teams, layout reviews, and post-silicon debug.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, develop, and build analog circuits for advanced process nodes, enabling high-performance and robust functionality.
  2. Perform circuit design, validation, extraction of chip parameters, and simulation of analog behavior models.
  3. Optimize circuits for power efficiency, performance, area, timing, and yield goals.
  4. Create test plans to verify designs against block microarchitecture specifications, evaluating test results for design validation.
  5. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define design specifications, collect feedback, and resolve design issues.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
  • 10+ years with Master's degree, or 4+ years with PhD in analog circuit design
  • Cadence Virtuoso
  • Spectre
  • PrimeSim
  • HSPICE
  • ADE
  • Custom Compiler
  • designing high-speed analog circuits (TX/RX blocks, PLLs, DLLs, SerDes, voltage regulators)
  • CMOS design
  • circuit simulation
  • high-speed analog design concepts
  • DRC
  • LVS
  • post-layout extraction tools

Nice to have

  • post-silicon debug
  • electrical validation
  • scripting languages (TCL, Perl, Python, C)
  • modeling and simulation of high-speed interface interconnects and channels
  • leadership experience
  • mentor junior team members

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years with Master's degree, or 4+ years with PhD in analog circuit design