Analog Design Engineer

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Salary range: Rs 600000 - Rs 3000000 (ie INR 6 - 30 LPA)

Min Experience: 2+ years
Location: Hyderabad
JobType: full-time

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Analog Design Engineer with 2–10 years of experience in analog and mixed-signal IC design. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise in designing, simulating, and validating high-performance analog circuits, with particular emphasis on SerDes, LDOs, and Phase-Locked Loops (PLLs).

You will work closely with cross-functional teams including architecture, layout, verification, and system engineering to develop robust, high-performance semiconductor solutions. This role offers an opportunity to contribute to challenging designs across advanced process technologies and take ownership of analog blocks from specification through silicon validation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-performance analog and mixed-signal circuits for advanced semiconductor applications.
• Architect, implement, and optimize SerDes circuits, including high-speed transmit and receive analog front-end blocks.
• Design and analyze Low-Dropout Regulators (LDOs), focusing on stability, transient response, PSRR, power efficiency, and load regulation.
• Design and develop Phase-Locked Loops (PLLs), including key blocks such as charge pumps, loop filters, voltage-controlled oscillators, and frequency dividers.
• Perform circuit-level simulations to evaluate functionality, performance, power consumption, noise, stability, and process-voltage-temperature (PVT) variations.
• Work closely with layout engineers to ensure proper implementation of analog blocks while considering matching, parasitics, noise, and layout-dependent effects.
• Participate in design reviews and contribute to circuit architecture, specifications, trade-off analysis, and technical documentation.
• Perform post-layout simulations and identify performance degradation caused by parasitic effects.
• Support silicon bring-up, characterization, debugging, and correlation between simulation and silicon measurements.
• Collaborate with digital, verification, physical design, and system teams to resolve design and integration issues.

Must-Have Skills

• 2–10 years of experience in analog or mixed-signal IC design.
• Strong hands-on experience with SerDes design and high-speed analog circuits.
• Solid understanding and practical experience designing LDOs and power-management circuits.
• Strong knowledge of Phase-Locked Loops (PLLs) and their fundamental building blocks.
• Strong understanding of analog circuit fundamentals, including amplifiers, feedback systems, biasing, current mirrors, oscillators, noise, stability, and frequency response.
• Experience with circuit simulation, PVT analysis, corner analysis, and Monte Carlo simulations.
• Ability to troubleshoot circuit-level performance issues and optimize designs for power, area, speed, noise, and reliability.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience working with FinFET or other advanced semiconductor process technologies.
• Familiarity with industry-standard EDA tools for schematic capture, simulation, layout, and verification.
• Hands-on experience with HSPICE or equivalent circuit simulation environments.
• Exposure to post-layout extraction, parasitic analysis, and silicon characterization.
• Understanding of semiconductor fabrication processes and device-level behavior in advanced nodes.
• Experience working on high-speed interfaces, clocking circuits, data converters, or power-management ICs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Microelectronics, or a related field.
• Strong foundation in analog and mixed-signal circuit design.
• Candidates who demonstrate strong practical design expertise and silicon experience will be preferred.