Senior Principal Mixed Signal Design Engineer

RTX RTX · Aerospace · goleta, CA +1 · Engineering

Senior Principal Mixed Signal Design Engineer role at RTX focusing on the design, development, and characterization of Readout Integrated Circuits (ROICs) for advanced image sensor products. Responsibilities include collaborating with cross-functional teams on ASIC/ROIC development, evaluating process flows, designing mixed-signal ICs, and guiding engineering teams. Requires experience with IC design flows, semiconductor device physics, and full-custom CMOS IC design.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate in a fast-paced multidisciplinary team environment to develop cutting-edge image sensor products.
  2. Participate in mixed-signal ASIC/ROIC development activities with cross-functional teams including chip architecture, specification, design, verification, validation, fabrication, packaging, debugging, test development, failure analysis, and documentation.
  3. Design, develop, and characterization of Readout Integrated Circuits (ROICs) for advanced sensing systems.
  4. Evaluate various aspects of the process flow from design to synthesis, place and route, timing and power use. As well as determine architecture design, logic design, and system simulation and define module interfaces for simulation.
  5. Design mixed-signal integrated circuits for image sensors, including analog signal chain, digital timing and image processing, and low-power 12 – 14 bit on-chip analog to digital converters.
  6. Guide and coordinate teams of highly skilled engineers in complex, multidisciplinary technical environments. As well as communicate complex technical concepts and program status through briefings and technical reviews with senior government and customer stakeholders, including flag officer–level leadership.

Skills

Required

  • IC Design Flows
  • Cadence
  • Mentor Graphics (Siemens)
  • MATLAB
  • Python
  • UNIX based software design tools
  • circuit simulation
  • transistor model extraction
  • noise analysis
  • linear design
  • layout automation
  • verification
  • System Verilog/Real Modelling/Verilog AMS
  • coding synthesizable RTL
  • program development for commercial, defense, and/or space industries
  • semiconductor device physics
  • semiconductor processing
  • linear IC design
  • layout
  • testing
  • full-custom CMOS Integrated Circuit (IC) design
  • transistor level design

Nice to have

  • Conformal
  • Innovus
  • behavioral models for digital circuits
  • analog/mixed signal interfaces and circuits
  • LVDS transmitters and receivers
  • low noise and low power amplifiers
  • ADC design
  • PLL/Transmitter design
  • radiation and cryogenic tolerant design techniques
  • ROIC architecture
  • design concepts
  • operational control and timing

What the JD emphasized

  • U.S. citizenship is required