Staff Analog Engineer

Location: Edinburgh, gb

Company Description

Renesas is one of the top global semiconductor companies in the world. We strive to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world, and our goal is to make every endpoint intelligent by offering product solutions in the automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets. Our robust product portfolio includes world-leading MCUs, SoCs, analog and power products, plus Winning Combination solutions that curate these complementary products. We are a key supplier to the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics you rely on every day; you may not see our products, but they are all around you.

Job Description

• Design and verify CMOS major analog blocks for custom ASICs to meet performance, area, power and timescale constraints. 
• Take technical leadership of full-chip or major system level blocks and drive projects from specification to production ramp.
• Collaborate with analogue and digital leads to achieve system and design strategy for custom ASICs and drive layout team to high quality physical implementation.
• Produce high quality documentation for designed circuits.
• Work closely with DFT engineers to ensure alignment to DFT strategy and implementation.
• Drive silicon debugging and design characterisation.
• Work with test and product engineers to support test development and ramp to production.
• Take a proactive approach to driving own development plan, utilising team members and internal development opportunities.
• Maintain technical project involvement at principal level and drive consistent methodology engagement across the team.
• Design and verify analog block-level, sub-system and chip-level circuits to meet the functional and performance specifications of custom mixed-signal ASICs.
• Lead a group of engineers technically to deliver a given block on time.
• Translate customer requirements into design specifications and design solutions.

Qualifications

• Degree level qualification in Electronics/Microelectronics Engineering or a related discipline is required
• 8+ years of relevant analog circuit design experience.
• Hands-on experience in the design and verification of a wide number of analogue circuit blocks such as amplifiers, oscillators, LDOs, comparators, reference/biasing circuits, PMIC and audio sub-blocks
• Experience in leading the development of switching converter or audio systems.
• Ability to lead a team and deliver chip level solutions through collaboration with analogue, digital, verification, layout, applications and test teams.
• Experience of chip-level verification including AMS and DMS.
• Strong competence with EDA design tools and the Cadence design environment.
• Enforce common methodology across whole team.
• Ability to make good judgement in selecting method and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Able to confidently share own expertise and work with others.
• Ability to propose innovative solutions.
• Ability to make significant contributions to projects, programs and business initiatives with creativity and ingenuity.
• Ability to support and mentor less experienced team members.
• Cross cultural awareness and sensitivity.
• Results-oriented and able to deliver on-time under tight schedule.
• Ability to work both independently and part of a team.
• Flexibility to undertake occasional international travel at short notice.
• Excellent command of verbal and written English.
• Concise and precise communication and presentation skills within multi-site and multi-cultural environment.

Additional Information

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.
 
With a diverse team of over 21,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’     
 
At Renesas, you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.  

• Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe and secure. 

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.    

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?  

Join Renesas. Let’s Shape the Future together.  

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.

We have adopted a hybrid model that gives employees the ability to work remotely two days a week while ensuring that we come together as a team in the office the rest of the time. The designated in-office days are Tuesday through Thursday for innovation, collaboration and continuous learning.