Senior Analog / Mixed Signal Application Engineer

Intel Intel · Semiconductors · Arizona, Phoenix, United States +2

Senior Analog/Mixed Signal Application Engineer at Intel Foundry Services, providing technical support to customers on PDKs, design methodologies, and implementation flows for semiconductor manufacturing, focusing on successful customer tape-outs and quality improvements in design kits and documentation.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide comprehensive tool/flow/methodology support to address customer analog mixed-signal design issues and challenges, ensuring successful tape-outs and maximum customer satisfaction
  2. Collaborate with internal Intel teams and external stakeholders including foundry customers' design teams, IP providers, and EDA vendors on AMS design and layout issue resolution
  3. Support customers through complex analog design challenges and advanced process technology adoption
  4. Create application notes, comprehensive documentation, and deliver technical training presentations to customers and internal teams
  5. Drive quality improvements in design kits and documentation to remove barriers to successful customer design tape-outs

Skills

Required

  • Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or STEM-related field of study
  • 5+ years of experience with advanced CMOS processes (16nm and below)
  • 4+ years of experience in one or more of the following scripting languages (Python, Perl, Tcl, shell scripting)
  • Hands-on experience in Design Implementation and methodology, specifically in Custom/Analog Mixed-Signal design/layout

Nice to have

  • Active US Government Security Clearance with a minimum of Secret level.
  • Post Graduate degree in Electrical / Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or in a STEM related field of study.
  • Experience with providing technical direction to engineering teams, including but not limited to customer support, driving methodologies to streamline design work.
  • Hands-on experience with analog tool and flows: Schematic entry, analog/RF simulation, extraction, post layout simulation, reliability validation.
  • Hands on experience with custom layout of analog blocks and Layout migration b/w different advanced FINFET tech nodes.
  • Experience in design of RF/analog/mixed-signal blocks: Low-noise amplifiers, filters, mixers, VCO, PLL, clock recovery, clock distribution, ADC/DAC, etc.
  • Customer facing experience.
  • Experience in SOTA Process technology (7nm and below) and PDK based technology evaluation.
  • Experience with thermal analysis at the block and die level using tools such as Ansys Icepak and/or Cadence Celsius

What the JD emphasized

  • US Citizenship required
  • Ability to obtain US Government Security Clearance