Technologist - Analog/Mixed-Signal Circuit Design Engineer

About the position

At Western Digital, our vision is to power global innovation and push the boundaries of technology to make what you thought was once impossible, possible. At our core, Western Digital is a company of problem solvers. People achieve extraordinary things given the right technology. For decades, we’ve been doing just that—our technology helped people put a man on the moon and capture the first-ever picture of a black hole. We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, HDDs, and platforms for business, creative professionals, and consumers alike under our Western Digital®, WD®, WD_BLACK™, and SanDisk® Professional brands. We are a key partner to some of the largest and highest-growth organizations in the world. From enabling systems to make cities safer and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world’s biggest companies and hyperscale cloud providers, to meeting the massive and ever-growing data storage needs of the AI era, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future. Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. Together, we can build the future of data storage.

Responsibilities

• Design high performance analog integrated circuits.
• Conduct system, block and transistor level circuit design and simulation.
• Supervise layout and verification processes.
• Prepare test plans for the test team.
• Perform design characterization, reliability and yield assessment, and modeling.
• Conduct simulation to bench and bench to test correlation.
• Evaluate bench performance at silicon and application levels.
• Document design processes and results.

Requirements

• MSEE with 12+ years or Ph.D. with 5-7+ years of experience in circuit design and development.
• Experience in full CMOS circuit design and development, including baseband amplifiers, low noise amplifiers, high performance ADC and DAC, high speed drivers and receivers, power management, and LDO regulators.
• Experience with 40nm and below full CMOS technology.
• Demonstrable track record of successful design releases and mass production.
• Thorough knowledge of industry standard EDA tools (Cadence, Mentor, etc.).
• Experience with layout of high performance analog blocks such as ADCs and DACs.
• Knowledge of high performance analog layout techniques, EM-IR and SOA considerations.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working with distributed design teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

• Paid vacation time
• Paid sick leave
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life, accident and disability insurance
• Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Employee assistance program
• Voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
• Tuition reimbursement
• Transit benefits
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan