Senior Staff Analog IC Design Engineer PMIC

Senior Staff Analog IC Design Engineer with extensive PMIC and power conversion design experience.

This note this role is only open to engineers with PMIC experience across Europe and will also consider Engineers who are wanting to relocate to Ireland and require VISA assistance and also remote work opportunity with an EU Pass.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Architect, design and develop high-performance analog and mixed-signal circuits for advanced PMIC applications.
• Design and optimise circuits for high-current, high-frequency, multiphase DC buck converters
• Develop critical analog building blocks, including High-side and low-side MOSFET gate drivers
• Current sensing and current-limit protection circuits.
• High-speed comparators and voltage sensing circuits.
• Error amplifiers and feedback control circuits
• Bandgap references, voltage references and bias generation.
• Level shifters and high-voltage interface circuits.
• Overcurrent, overvoltage and thermal protection circuits. o Analog control and monitoring circuits.
• Optimise circuit performance for efficiency, speed, accuracy, noise, power consumption and silicon area.
• Analyse device-level limitations, parasitic effects and circuit behaviour across operating conditions.
• Contribute to the development of high-performance, multiphase DC-DC converter architectures.
• Design and optimise analog circuitry supporting high-frequency switching power conversion.
• Analyse converter control-loop stability, bandwidth, phase margin and transient response.
• Develop solutions to minimise output voltage droop, overshoot and recovery time during fast load transients.
• Design current sensing, current balancing and protection circuitry for multiphase converter systems.
• Analyse switching losses, conduction losses, dead-time control and overall converter efficiency.
• Address challenges associated with high-current switching, parasitic inductance, switching noise and ground bounce.
• Circuit Simulation & Verification
• Perform detailed transistor-level circuit simulations using industry-standard EDA tools. Conduct comprehensive PVT (Process, Voltage and Temperature) analysis.
• Develop and maintain simulation testbenches and verification methodologies.
• Perform pre-layout and post-layout simulation, including extracted parasitic effects.
• Investigate and resolve circuit performance issues identified during simulation or silicon validation.
• Ensure design compliance with functional, performance and reliability requirements. 4. Physical Design Collaboration & Silicon Implementation • Work closely with IC layout engineers to optimise circuit placement, routing and overall physical implementation.
• Provide guidance on critical analog layout requirements, including matching, symmetry, shielding and noise isolation.
• Analyse the impact of parasitic resistance, capacitance and inductance on circuit performance.
• Review critical high-current signal paths, power distribution networks and sensitive analog circuitry.
• Support physical verification, including DRC, LVS and parasitic extraction. •Participate in design reviews and silicon tapeout activities.
• Ensure robust design implementation across process and operating variations
• Take technical ownership of complex analog and power management circuit blocks.
• Participate in architectural discussions and technical decision-making.
• Lead and contribute to peer design reviews.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams across international locations.

Essential Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering, Electronic Engineering, Microelectronics or a related discipline.
• A PhD in a relevant field would be advantageous but is not essential.
• 7 to 12 years plus of hands-on analog IC design experience, including substantial experience specifically in PMIC and power conversion applications. extraction and post-layout simulation.
• Familiarity with physical verification methodologies, including DRC and LVS.
• Experience with scripting or automation using Python, MATLAB, SKILL or similar tools would be advantageous.

Candidates with experience in one or more of the following areas will be highly advantageous:

• High-current, high-efficiency, multiphase buck converter design.

• High-frequency switching converter architectures.

• Advanced digital or hybrid analog/digital control techniques for power conversion. • Fast transient-response power management architectures.

• Integrated power stages and high-current MOSFET switching circuits