Principal Design Engineer

Req ID:\n\nJR94422 Principal Design Engineer\n\nOur vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all.\n\nMicron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever.\n\nMicron Technology\u2019s vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life and our commitment to people, innovation, tenacity, collaboration, and customer focus allows us to fulfill our mission to be a global leader in memory and storage solutions! This means conducting business with integrity, accountability, and professionalism while supporting our global community!\n\nResponsibilities include, but not limited to:\n\nAs a Principal Design Engineer in the NVE Design Engineering Analog group at Micron Technology, Inc., you will contribute to the development of memory products that are best-in-class, using your specialized knowledge and Micron proprietary methods of designing and analyzing analog and mixed circuits used in the development of memory products.\n\n * Serve as a technical authority in the analog/core functional team for NAND projects, participating in pathfinding activities and solving sophisticated technical problems.\n * Drive alignment of design solutions, methodologies, DTCO and circuits across a distributed matrix organization, working closely with other functional teams to evaluate, analyze, and improve NAND power consumptions, across geographies and time zones.\n * Coordinate project planning according to achievements, ensuring tasks are completed on time.\n * Designing, simulating, optimizing, and floor planning NAND circuits, evaluating design feasibility and analyze circuit functionalities.\n * Implementing analog and mixed signal circuit design to meet specifications, validating design performance and functionalities by running block and chip level simulations using standard industry simulators and mentor other engineers for the same.\n * Collaborate productively with other team members in your team.\n * Build and maintain Python-based AI utilities that collaborates with EDA environments to accelerate design tasks such as environment setup, corner execution, regression runs, automated documentation and intelligent/predictive design/layout techniques.\n * Review existing and generate new user documentation.\n * Working with and supporting the efforts of groups such as Product Engineering, Test, Probe, Process Integration, Assembly and Marketing to proactively design products to optimize all manufacturing functions and assure the best cost, quality, reliability, time-to-market, and customer satisfaction.\n\n\n\nMinimum Qualifications:\n\n * MS (PhD preferred) in electrical engineering required.\n * 8+ years of NAND design relevant proven experience required.\n * A very high level of self-motivation and proactivity.\n * Proficiency in analog/mixed signal circuit design (charge pumps, op amps, DACs, ADCs, linear regulators, oscillators, bandgaps, LDO, thermometers, page buffers, PDNs, level shifters, IO buffers, RTL, Verilog)\n * Proficient fundamentals in semiconductor and device physics and analog/mixed-signal circuit design. An understanding of semiconductor reliability issues including CHC, NBTI, stress, and snapback, as well as Electromigration (EM) and IR analysis.\n * Proficient circuit debugging and problem-solving skills.\n * Proficiency in circuit verification and optimization, layout planning, parasitic extractions of the circuits, experience guiding layout.\n * Proficient in analog and digital simulators such as HSPICE, Fast SPICE, and Verilog\n * Proficient coding skills in Python (plus Bash/Tcl a bonus), and proficient working with structured data (CSV/JSON/SQLite) and version control.\n * Proficient with Cadence design, LVS/DRC tools and UNIX.\n * Excellent teamwork demeanor. Good verbal communication skills (English) and ability to convey sophisticated technical concepts in verbal and written form.\n\n\n\nJob Profile(s):\n\nSemiconductor Design Engineer 4 - Semiconductor Design Engineer 5\n\nRelocation Level: TBD\n\nBefore Getting Started \nPlease review Micron\u2019s Internal Job Application Policy on your regional PeopleNow Career Opportunities page before searching and applying for jobs. Note in particular that: \n\n * Hiring managers may view your performance appraisals, original resume, transcripts or other performance-related documentation in your personal file. This information will be held in confidence.\n * If you are selected to interview for a position, you must notify your direct supervisor before participating in the interview process.\n\n\n\nThe US base salary range that Micron Technology estimates it could pay for this full-time position is:\n\n$140,000.00 - $298,000.00 a year\n\nAdditional compensation may include benefits, bonuses and equity. \nOur salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target base pay for new hire salaries of the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional job-related factors, including knowledge, skills, experience, tenure and relevant education or training. The pay scale is subject to change depending on business needs. 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